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Congratulations, 2020 Victoria Finnerty Travel Award recipients!
The Victoria Finnerty Travel Award supports travel costs for undergraduate GSA members who are engaged in research to attend the Annual Drosophila Research Conference, which was to be part of TAGC in 2020. Due to TAGC moving to an online format, 2020 awardees will instead present their work virtually at TAGC Online. Victoria Finnerty, who…
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New Faculty Profile: Katherine Thompson-Peer
New Faculty Profiles allow GSA members who are establishing their first labs to introduce themselves to our wider community. If you’d like to submit your profile, please complete this form. Katherine Thompson-Peer Assistant Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology University of California, Irvine Lab website Briefly describe the ongoing and expected research projects. My lab is interested in…
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You had to cancel your lab course. What now?
Guest post by Abha Ahuja, Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences at Minerva Schools at KGI. As on-campus meetings for laboratory courses are canceled, you might be wondering if you’ll be able to meet your goals in a virtual environment. It will take some adjustment, but it is doable if you are strategic about what you want…
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A message from the GSA President about the cancellation of TAGC
Last week, the GSA Board of Directors cancelled The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), an event we had all been eagerly anticipating. It was a heartbreaking end to four years of work and planning by many people across our community. Although painful, the decision was clearly the socially responsible thing to do. The Board voted unanimously…
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GSA awards 2020 Genetics Society of America Medal to Bonnie Bassler
When Bonnie Bassler was wrapping up her biochemistry PhD at Johns Hopkins University, she heard a research talk at a small conference in Baltimore that switched on a light and changed her career. A geneticist described how groups of bioluminescent marine Vibrio bacteria could start glowing simultaneously. “I’m sitting there thinking ‘Holy Smokes, how is…