College biologist Jeff Sekelsky joins five other University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members who have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sekelsky was recognized for distinguished contributions to the field of genetics, particularly the genetic and molecular descriptions of DNA repair and recombination processes. He also is a member of the Lineberger Center.
The association, the world’s largest general scientific society, elects fellows to recognize their efforts toward advancing science applications that are considered scientifically or socially distinguished.
He joins other UNC fellows: biochemist Henrik Dohlman, microbiologist William Goldman, geneticist Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, virologist Nancy Raab-Traub and biochemist Yue Xiong.
In total, 58 Carolina faculty members have been elected fellows of the association.
The six are among 539 scientists awarded the honor this year. New fellows will receive certificates and rosette pins at the association’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in February.
For more information, see http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/1206fellows.shtml and http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/
Full UNC fellows list: http://research.unc.edu/about/facts-rankings/faculty-university-distinctions/CCM3_027316
