Already finished the Sunday crossword in the paper and looking for a new challenge? Try your hand at this genetics and GSA-specific puzzle submitted by one of our members. Any member who sends their correctly competed puzzle to blog@genetics-gsa.org by Monday, March 7 will be eligible to win a snazzy GSA t-shirt.     We…

Leonid Kruglyak (HHMI/University of California, Los Angeles) has been awarded the 2016 Edward Novitski Prize for his extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in the solution of significant problems in genetics research. “Dr. Leonid Kruglyak has been a pioneer in human genetics for over 15 years…. he continues to pose questions and do experiments…

Former GSA Board member Jeannie T. Lee, who also co-chairs The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) Coordinating Committee, has been named as recipient of the 2016 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences. The award, which is bestowed by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), recognizes Lee’s work in uncovering the functions of long, noncoding RNA…

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.   Mike Downey Assistant Professor (Since November 2014) Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of Ottawa Lab website Twitter: @DowneyUOttawa   Research program: Our lab studies protein…

Considering my career as a whole, I have had a major role in three hugely creative experiments. It might be instructive to examine the features common to the three. They were all carried out when I was relatively young and my title was assistant professor. They all occurred when I had relatively little funding. Perhaps…

  Plant biologist Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee was among the first people to submit their registration for The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC). As part of our efforts to introduce you to members of our community, meet Dr. Rhee.   Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee, PhD Staff Scientist Department of Plant Biology Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford,…

Check out the the February issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS This Month’s Centennial Articles Salvador Luria and Max Delbruck on random mutation and fluctuation tests, pp. 367—368 Andrew Murray Associate Editor Andrew W. Murray introduces Luria and Delbruck’s 1943 GENETICS Classic Mutations of bacteria from…

As we’re in the heart of asking you to join or renew your GSA membership for 2016, you may be wondering where membership dues go. Your dues do not subsidize the GSA journals or GSA conferences, which are self-sustaining. Your membership dues do support programmatic activities that further the Society’s mission—including advocacy, communications, education, outreach,…

When a C. elegans nematode starves early in its life cycle, its offspring are more resistant to starvation in the next generation; however, this life-saving inheritance comes at a fitness cost for the worm itself, reveals research published in GENETICS. Jobson et al. investigate the idea that lean experiences during early development cause organisms to…

In 1917, amidst the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, a bug-obsessed teenager in Kiev discovered a new species of ladybird beetle in the debris washed up on the banks of the flooding Dnieper River. The following year, he described the species in his first scientific publication. That 18-year old ladybug spotter —Theodosius Dobzhansky— would go…

In preparation for The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), set to take place in Orlando this July, Genes to Genomes is getting the inside scoop from many of the outstanding keynote speakers in our “Behind the Podium” series. In the first of a series of interviews, GSA graduate member Elisabeth Bauerly catches up with Drosophila researcher…