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Introducing undergrads to primary literature in GENETICS
If you’re doing it right, teaching undergraduates is incredibly difficult. Delving into the scholarship of teaching and learning can be absolutely overwhelming, especially if the principles of Vision & Change are new to you. Preparing excellent activities, making sure that students are engaged, redesigning a course so that it’s “flipped”- all of these things take…
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December GENETICS Highlights!
The December issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the Highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS The nature of genetic variation for complex traits revealed by GWAS and regional heritability mapping analyses, pp. 1601–1613 Armando Caballero, Albert Tenesa, and Peter D. Keightley Caballero et al. used simulations to show that, contrary to previous results, common…
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#IAmGSA
GSA needs your input! We are brainstorming about catchy slogans, images, or objects that represent the whole of the genetics community. The kind of thing that you’d like to wear on a t-shirt and that would appeal across the GSA community. What does your GSA look like? What do you love most about the genetics community?…
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GSA members elected as 2015 AAAS Fellows
Congratulations to the eight GSA members who have been elected as AAAS Fellows in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership: Julie A. Brill, PhD (Section on Biological Sciences) Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children; and Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto G3 Associate Editor, 2011–2014 …
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2016 Drosophila Image Award competition
The Drosophila community has issued its call for submissions for the 2016 Drosophila Image Award, which will be presented on July 14, 2016, at the 57th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, being held as part of The Allied Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida. Presence at the meeting is not required to enter or win an Image…
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Looking for cancer’s weak spots
The mutations that drive cancer formation are often found in “hub” genes that regulate many aspects of cell growth and survival. But these key genes are not always good therapeutic targets — some are even considered “undruggable.” In the latest issue of GENETICS, Bailey et al. identify a strategy for fighting cancer cells that carry…
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NIGMS names Dorit Zuk as director of GDB division
NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has announced that Dorit Zuk, PhD, will be the next director of the institute’s Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology (GDB). She will join NIGMS in early 2016. NIGMS’ GDB division funds basic research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms related to inheritance, gene expression, and development. Many of…
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Frog fungus gets lazy in the lab
Amphibians around the world have been devastated by the spread of the deadly fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). But although many populations have been decimated, others have survived the same threat. One reason for such different outcomes is variation in virulence between Bd isolates. In the latest issue of G3, Refsnider and Poorten et al. investigate…
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pgEd Briefings: Increasing policymakers’ interest in genetics
Johnny Kung, Director of New Initiatives for the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd), fills us in on their latest Congressional briefing. A version of this post is published on the pgEd website and is posted here with permission. On Nov. 17, our group, the Personal Genetics Education Project at Harvard Medical School, held a Congressional…
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New Faculty Profile: Peter Stirling
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. Peter Stirling Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratories Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Lab website Research program: My lab is using functional genomics, molecular biology,…