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Articles tagged Early Career Scientists
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Abigail DiVito
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Abigail DiVito Career Development Subcommittee University of Pennsylvania Research Interest My research investigates how chromatin state determines the gene expression programs associated…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Emma Powell
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Emma Powell Co-Chair, Policy Subcommittee University of California, San Francisco Research Interest I use yeast as a model organism for my research…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Bernarda Calla
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Bernarda Calla Career Development Subcommittee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Interest One of the main mechanisms used by plants to…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Şeyma Katrinli
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Şeyma Katrinli Multimedia Subcommittee Emory University School of Medicine Research Interest Psychiatric disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dramatically lower the…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Nele Haelterman
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Nele Haelterman Early Career Scientist Steering Committee Baylor College of Medicine Research Interest I’m interested in delineating the cellular and molecular…
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Asav Dharia on finding the “value-add” in your career
Asav Dharia works as a Competitive Talent Strategist and Research Analyst at Flagship Pioneering, matching leading scientists with newly forming companies and technologies. He’s centered his career on finding the big picture in science and looking for a niche where being a scientist becomes the value-add. In the Decoding Life series, we talk to geneticists with diverse…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Vandana Raghavan
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Vandana Raghavan Communication and Outreach Subcommittee Cornell University Research Interest Maintaining the correct genetic code of an organism is essential for…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Amanda Shaver
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Amanda Shaver Co-Chair Early Career Scientist Career Development Subcommittee University of Georgia Research Interest Parasitic nematode worms impose debilitating global health and economic…
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Congratulations to the 2019 Victoria Finnerty Travel Award recipients!
The Victoria Finnerty Travel Award supports travel costs for undergraduates engaged in research to attend the Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Victoria Finnerty, who died in February 2011, was a long-time member of the Genetics Society of America and served the Drosophila community and the genetics community at large in many capacities. A wonderful geneticist, Vickie’s ground-breaking…
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Tips for a successful Hill Day
Guest post by Giovanna Collu. Are you planning a visit to Capitol Hill to advocate for science? We asked Giovanna Collu, former Co-Chair of the Early Career Scientist Policy Subcommittee, to discuss the lessons she learned representing GSA at a Hill Day organized by the Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB). As well…
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Congratulations to the 2019 Early Career Scientist Leadership Program cohort!
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is excited to announce the latest cohort of student and postdoc leaders joining the Early Career Scientist Leadership Program. Participants receive training and mentoring and serve on committees charged with understanding the needs, interests, concerns, and challenges of early career scientist members of the GSA. As part of this…