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Twenty years of the Worm Art Show
In 1997, Ahna Skop approached her graduate advisor, John G. White, about adding a worm-themed art show to the International C. elegans Conference he was organizing that year. “He said I could do whatever I wanted, but not to involve him,” she recalls. That year marked the very first Worm Art Show, which has since…
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Behind the cover: CRISPR in color
In the life of a butterfly, color is crucial. Color helps these flashy insects attract mates, avoid being spotted, or even signal to predators that they would make a bad meal. On the cover of the March issue of GENETICS is a close-up view of Junonia coenia, a butterfly with stunning blue eyespots on its…
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#DROS17 GSA Poster Award winners
We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 58th Annual Drosophila Research Conference! Undergraduate and graduate student members of the GSA were eligible for the awards, and a hard-working team of postdocs volunteered their time as judges. Congratulations to all! Undergraduate Students 1st Place: Cezary Mikoluk Institution: Penn State Berks Poster title: The…
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GSA Marches!
Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of scientists and science enthusiasts came out in force, rallying at more than 600 locations around the world to support robustly funded and publicly communicated science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity. Many in the GSA community joined the March for Science, including a group at the Washington DC event, led by GSA President…
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At the March for Science blog: Why scientists care so much about gnats, weeds, and brewer’s yeast
Why are scientists so interested in the health of seemingly insignificant creepy crawlies, vermin, microscopic blobs, and spindly weeds? This question is considered in a guest post up today on the March for Science blog by GSA Communications Director Cristy Gelling and University of California, Berkeley grad student Nicole Haloupek. Artist and Sanger Institute postdoc Alex…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Elaine Welch
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Elaine Welch Career Development Subcommittee Liaison University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Interest: I study vertebrate embryo patterning using…
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Why March for Science?
Three weeks into my term as GSA’s President I went to the Women’s March in New York with my daughters. The experience was energizing and uplifting on many levels—it was completely peaceful, attended by women and men of all ages, and focused entirely on affirming civil rights. The magic of the day came from the…
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Protein variance in tightly controlled developmental processes
Take two neighboring cells from the same tissue—cells that are about as identical as any could be. Despite their similarities, these two cells could actually vary massively in their transcriptome. The typical fate of an mRNA—the “transcript” in transcriptome—is to serve as a template to make a protein, but it isn’t clear that the differences…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Adam Ramsey
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Adam J. Ramsey Liaison Communication and Outreach Subcommittee University of Memphis Research Interest: I study mitochondria, which…
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Live long and prosper (under the right conditions)
Restricting calorie intake seems to promote longer lives in a wide range of organisms, from microbes to mammals. Some determined youth-seekers are already adopting reduced-calorie diets in an attempt to extend their lifespans. But it’s not clear yet that these anti-aging effects apply to humans, and the mechanisms by which they work in other organisms…
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New in G3: unstable inheritance, chromosomal translocation, and meiotic silencing
Check out the April issue of G3! Table of Contents Mutant Screen Report Identification of Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that Are Haploinsufficient for Overcoming Amino Acid Starvation Nancy S. Bae, Andrew P. Seberg, Leslie P. Carroll, Mark J. Swanson G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics April 2017 7: 1061-1084; https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.037416 Investigations A Whole-Transcriptome Approach to Evaluating Reference…