2017 Curt Stern Award: The Complexity of Simple Genetics1

Leo Tolstoy famously remarked that happy families are all alike but that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The adage that applied to Anna Karenina is just as apt a description for most Ph.D. students. A smooth transition to a doctorate can be described uniformly as one where experiments work more frequently than not, papers get published in high-quality journals, and students matriculate on time and with a minimum of stress or fuss. Alas, that utopian journey is seldom found, and such was the case when I found myself struggling a year or two into my Ph.D.
Source: The American Journal of Human Genetics - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Tags: ASHG Awards and Addresses Source Type: research