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Larry Sandler
Laurence Marvin Sandler (1929–1987) was a "leading "Drosophila" geneticist", active during the mid-20th century. Sandler is best known for his work establishing and elucidating the phenomenon of meiotic drive. (Meiotic drive is when one copy of a gene is passed on to offspring more than the expected 50% of the time.)
Sandler earned a B.S. at Cornell University and did his doctoral work with Ed Novitski at the University of Missouri, where he collaborated with Gerry Braver. Braver and Sandler discovered
Larry Sandler Memorial Award
The Larry Sandler Memorial Award is a prestigious international award given for research in the "Drosophila" community. The award is given for the best dissertation of the preceding year, and is given at the annual Drosophila Research Conference. Awardees may be nominated only by their graduate advisors.
The awardees give the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the annual Drosophila Research Conference. The award honors Dr. Larry Sandler.
Award recipients.
- 1988 Bruce Edgar
- 1989 Kate Harding
- 1990 Michael Dickinson