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Support #GivingTuesday with a donation to GSA
As we approach the holiday season and #GivingTuesday, we hope that you will consider a donation to the Genetics Society of America (GSA). We rely upon your charitable contributions to promote a strong future for our field. GSA is the voice for those conducting fundamental studies in genetics and those working with model organisms from…
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GSA members submit winning entries in FASEB BioArt competition
GSA members are well represented among the winners of FASEB’s fourth annual BioArt competition: 4 of the 11 winning images were submitting by our members. The BioArt competition seeks to share the beauty and excitement of biological research with the public by featuring captivating images and illustrations that represent cutting-edge life science research. All winning…
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Gene Drive: More research, not more regulations
In October of this year, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop to gather information regarding the safety and ethics of gene drive research. GSA Public Policy Chair Allan Spradling sent the following comments to the committee for consideration. In the late 1980s I was one of the first…
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GSA member Elizabeth Blackburn to head Salk Institute
GSA member Elizabeth Blackburn has been named as the next president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, an independent research institute in San Diego founded by polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk. She is currently Morris Herzstein Professor in Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. …
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Working through the issues: Science, ethics and governance of gene drive research
The Committee on Gene Drive Research in Non-Human Organisms convened by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held an information gathering meeting on October 28, 2015, to consider the Science, Ethics and Governance Considerations for Gene Drive Research. This meeting comes as a component of a large Gene Drive study, which is set to review the…
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New Faculty Profile: Clement Chow
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. Clement Chow Assistant Professor Department of Human Genetics University of Utah School of Medicine Lab website Personal Twitter: @ClementYChow Lab Twitter: @ChowLab Research program:…
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Creating an “Open Educational Resources” e-textbook
Kevin Ahern and Indira Rajagopal, both from the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University, described the process of creating an interactive e-textbook in biochemistry while presenting at the Gordon Research Conference on Undergraduate Biology Education Research in the summer of 2015. G2G asked them about their experience writing and publishing and they…
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The mighty sea squirt
Today’s guest author is Emma Farley, a postdoctoral researcher in Mike Levine’s lab, which recently relocated to Princeton (formerly at University of California, Berkeley). Sea squirts (Ciona intestanalis) are a classic system for the study of development. They were a favorite of early developmental biologists like Laurent Chabry, Ed Conklin, and Thomas Hunt Morgan. Over…
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Modeling the promise and peril of gene drive
What if we could eradicate malaria by engineering a mosquito population that doesn’t transmit the disease? What if we could control invasive species that outcompete natural populations? What if we could get rid of insecticide-resistant pests not by developing new chemical treatments, but instead by changing the population itself and driving it toward extinction? Although…
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November GENETICS Highlights!
The November issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the Highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS A novel statistical model to estimate host genetic effects affecting disease transmission, pp. 871—884 Osvaldo Anacleto, Luis Alberto Garcia-Cortes, Debby Lipschutz-Powell, John A. Woolliams, and Andrea B. Doeschl-Wilson This article provides insight into how host genetic diversity affects…
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An arbitrary line in the sand: Rising scientists confront the impact factor
This month, the GSA journal GENETICS published an editorial that illuminates the struggles experienced by scientists when trying to both do good science and advance in their career, especially as it relates to the unintended effects of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The editorial by Executive Editor Tracey DePellegrin and Editor-in-Chief Mark Johnston is largely intended to…