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DeLill S. Nasser (1929–2000) was an American geneticist who was referred to by R. Scott Hawley as the "patron saint of real genetics". A Hoosier, she obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in bacteriology before becoming a professor at the University of Florida. She accepted a position at the National Science Foundation years later and eventually became program director for the eukaryotic division of the genetics program, from which she promoted genetics as its own science. Her promotion of genetics research was highly influential in the creation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome project and its use as a model organism. Given multiple awards for her director work, she had an official scholarship named after her by the Genetics Society of America.