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A special message from Jasper Rine
Dear GSA Members, 2015 has been a very important and productive year for the GSA, with much progress on issues critical to our community. Here are a few of the highlights: Following the incredible success of YeastBook in GENETICS, the GSA has just launched FlyBook, with Lynn Cooley as Editor-in-Chief—and will soon launch WormBook with…
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How labor reform might overhaul postdoc pay
A proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Labor could soon mandate that postdocs making less than $50,440 per year will be eligible for overtime pay at 1.5 times their hourly rate. Research labs are generally not prepared to track overtime hours and many do not have the additional funds available to pay postdocs above…
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Make Me a Match: biomedical networking for rare disease gene discovery
A Canadian network focused on rare diseases is playing matchmaker between clinicians and model organism researchers. Over half of children with rare, inherited monogenic diseases lack a molecular diagnosis. There are an estimated 7,000 monogenic diseases possible, and only about half of those have been implicated in human disease. The Rare Diseases: Models & Mechanisms…
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FY 2016 appropriations bill increases science funding
Early this morning, the U.S. House of Representatives released the text of the fiscal year (FY) 2016 omnibus appropriations bill, which would fund the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year on September 30, 2016. The bill includes increases for all of the science agencies of interest to the GSA community:…
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GSA presidents named as National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Current GSA President Jasper Rine and former GSA President H. Robert Horvitz have been named to the 2015 class of Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). According to the NAI press release, “election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of…
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Join GSA by December 31 and be eligible to win
The 2016 GSA membership year is off and running, and we ask you to renew your membership today—or to join us for the first time. GSA is THE professional society for faculty, postdocs, grad students, undergrads, educators, and others interested in genetics. The Society’s more than 5,500 members worldwide work to deepen our understanding…
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Structure in yeast colonies
Compared to a human, a tree, or a jellyfish, the single-celled yeast might seem like a loner. Multicellular organisms like plants and animals are complex co-operative structures made of many specialized cell types, while a single yeast cell can survive and proliferate without the help of others. But although you might think of yeast as…
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Early-career scientists selected to serve on the GSA Board and Committees
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the selection of nine new Trainee Representatives who will serve on the Board of Directors and the Society’s programmatic committees. The GSA Trainee Representative program began in 2013 as a way to engage students and postdocs in the Society and offer an opportunity for the…
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Collaboration is key: Faiz Kabbinavar’s undergraduate research experience
Publishing research in one of the GSA Journals as an undergraduate is a significant and valuable authorship experience and we want to hear your story (even if it was published years ago!). GSA’s Spotlight on Undergraduate Research showcases GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics authors who were undergraduates when contributing to their paper. Faiz Kabbinavar Undergraduate Institution: University of Pittsburgh…
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New in G3: POPSEQ in wheat, strawberry sex determination, and germline genes in the Jewel Wasp
Check out the December issue of G3! Meeting Report Meeting Report: Fungal Genomics Meets Social Media: Highlights of the 28th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar Michelle Momany, Antonio Di Pietro, William G. Alexander, Bridget M. Barker, Omar S. Harb, Sophien Kamoun, Francis Martin, J. Chris Pires, Jason E Stajich, Bart P. H. J. Thomma, and…
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More questions than answers at Gene Editing Summit
Last week, the National Academies of Science and Engineering joined forces with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Royal Society of the United Kingdom to host an International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington, DC. Top scholars in genetics, bioengineering, ethics, and law debated the merits of human gene editing; however consensus was far from achieved.…