{"id":10684,"date":"2025-01-27T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:48:50","slug":"congratulations-to-gmb-fall-2024-delill-nasser-awardee-jeanne-marie-mcpherson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/2025\/01\/congratulations-to-gmb-fall-2024-delill-nasser-awardee-jeanne-marie-mcpherson\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to GMB Fall 2024 DeLill Nasser Awardee Jeanne-Marie McPherson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9448 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson.jpg\" alt=\"Jeanne-Marie-McPherson\" width=\"219\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson.jpg 2220w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-917x1024.jpg 917w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-768x858.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-1376x1536.jpg 1376w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-1834x2048.jpg 1834w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-600x670.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/>Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce that UNC Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Jeanne-Marie McPherson (Bob Duronio &amp; Dan McKay Labs) is a recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/genetics-gsa.org\/awards\/delill-nasser-award-for-professional-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics<\/a>\u00a0for Fall 2024!<\/p>\n<p>Given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, DeLill Nasser Awards support attendance at meetings and laboratory courses.<\/p>\n<p>The award is named in honor of DeLill Nasser, a long-time GSA supporter and National Science Foundation Program Director in Eukaryotic Genetics. Nasser was regarded by some as the \u201cpatron saint of real genetics,\u201d shaping the field through more than two decades of leadership. She was especially supportive of young scientists, people who were beginning their careers, and those trying to open new areas of genetic inquiry. For more about Nasser, please see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/158\/4\/1389.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the tribute<\/a>\u00a0from Scott Hawley, published in the August 2001 issue of GENETICS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeanne-Marie<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My research focuses on determining the requirements of variant histones in genome function and development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read full story <a href=\"https:\/\/genestogenomes.org\/congratulations-to-the-fall-2024-delill-nasser-awardees\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce that UNC Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Jeanne-Marie McPherson (Bob Duronio &amp; Dan McKay Labs) is a recipient of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics\u00a0for Fall 2024!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":9448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mcpherson","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-269x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-768x858.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-917x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jeanne-Marie-McPherson-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Jeanne-Marie-McPherson","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"McPherson","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/tag\/mcpherson\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}