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Career Profile: eLearning Specialist
As trainees navigate through their graduate training and postdoctoral independence, they are exposed to many opportunities that allow them to develop skills that are beneficial to a career at the bench and along the many paths that entwine the scientific enterprise. Dr. Sandlin Seguin is one scientist that is surprised at where she landed, within…
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The Buzz about FlyBook: It’s Here!
GSA dedicates these inaugural chapters to Bill Gelbart, who is dearly missed, and who will live on in our memories and in our work. Bill was an early enthusiast of the FlyBook project, and without his and Thom Kaufman’s vision to partner with GENETICS, these articles would not have the valuable richness of links to…
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New GSA Board members elected
GSA is pleased to announce the election of six new members to our Board of Directors. The new Board members will begin their term on January 1, 2016, and will serve for three years. GSA has also issued a press release providing more information about each of the new Board members. Vice-President (and President-Elect)…
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NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
The National Science Foundation is seeking applications for its Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology program. The fellowships encourage independence at an early stage of the research career to permit Fellows to pursue their research and training goals in the most appropriate research locations regardless of the availability of funding for the Fellows at that site. The Directorate…
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Cards Against Humanity offers STEM scholarship for undergraduate women
The folks behind the Cards Against Humanity party game have established the Science Ambassador Scholarship, which offers a full tuition scholarship of up to four years for a woman seeking an undergraduate degree in science, engineering, or math. They are looking for individuals who are passionate about discovery and able to share that excitement with others.…
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New Faculty Profile: Randal Halfmann
New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Randal Halfmann Assistant Investigator Stowers Institute for Medical Research Lab website Research program: We aim to discover new prions and explore how these remarkable…
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GSA members receive NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Several members of the GSA community have been named as recipients of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award: Gloria Brar, Francesca Cole, Jessica Feldman, and Daniel Jarosz. More information about each awardee is below. Established in 2007, the New Innovator award supports unusually innovative research from early career investigators who are within 10 years of…
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GSA member Jason Sheltzer receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
GSA member Jason Sheltzer joins Zhao Zhang as one of 16 recipients of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award for 2015. Established in 2011, the Early Independence Awards program provides an opportunity for exceptional junior scientists who have recently received their doctoral degree or finished medical residency to skip traditional post-doctoral training and move immediately into independent research positions. In…
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GSA member Giovanni Bosco honored with NIH Pioneer Award
GSA member Giovanni Bosco was named as one of 13 recipients of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for 2015. Established in 2004, the Pioneer Awards challenges investigators at all career levels to pursue new research directions and develop groundbreaking approaches with a high impact on a broad area of biomedical or behavioral science. Giovanni Bosco, PhD…
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Unlocking the Ribocode
Genes to Genomes asked Dr. Maria Barna (Stanford University), a recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Award for Young Investigators, to tell us about her research and what it means to receive the award. She will be recognized for her Rosalind Franklin Award along with the other 2016 recipient, Dr. Carolyn McBride, at the 2015 American Society…
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October GENETICS Highlights
The October issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the Highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS A coalescent model for a sweep of a unique standing variant, pp. 707-725 Jeremy J. Berg and Graham Coop Loci that have recently been under natural selection are commonly identified through the use of genetic polymorphism data.…