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Danielle Blecha-Bashirullah on hiring self-motivated team workers, salary negotiations, and putting the phone away at night
Danielle Blecha-Bashirullah, Founder and Principal of D BASH Business Solutions LLC, a consulting company in Madison, WI, emphasizes the skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur, negotiating contracts and how to maintain a healthy work-life balance. In the Decoding Life series, we talk to geneticists with diverse career paths, tracing the many directions possible after research training.…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight —
Zach FarrowWe’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. Zach Farrow Co-chair, Diversity Subcommittee Novogene, Sacramento, CA So, you’re the first early career leader that we’ve had in the program that…
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Who would be hurt by higher taxes for graduate students? All of us.
What is #GradTax about? The US research enterprise is under threat by proposed tax changes that would make it difficult for all but the wealthiest students to undertake graduate training. Restricting access to advanced training would damage the nation’s ability to grow, innovate, discover new medicines, bring new technologies to market, and adapt to a…
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Putting active learning into practice: an interview with PALM fellow Christopher Baker and PALM mentor Michelle Smith
Are you a postdoc looking for hands-on education experience and mentoring? Or a faculty member interested in bringing evidence-based, effective active learning strategies into your classroom? The PALM (Promoting Active Learning and Mentoring) network helps faculty and postdoctoral fellows gain hands-on experience and long-term mentorship in putting active learning strategies into practice. GSA is proud…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Tiffany Baiocchi
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. Tiffany Baiocchi Diversity Subcommittee University of California Riverside Research interest The grubs that chew at the roots of your lawn and the bugs…
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Corey Welch on going from first-generation student to running a STEM Scholars Program
Corey Welch, Director of the STEM Scholars Program at Iowa State University, talks about how his life experiences helped him obtain a PhD and how he inspires students to reach their educational and career goals. In the Decoding Life series, we talk to geneticists with diverse career paths, tracing the many directions possible after research training. This…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Narjes Alfuraiji
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. Narjes Alfuraiji Communication and Outreach Subcommittee University of Manchester Research Interest Aspergillus fumigatus is a filamentous fungi…
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New in G3: maize mutants, fungus filamentation, and more
Check out the November issue of G3! Table of Contents Mutant Screen Report Genetic Screening for EMS-Induced Maize Embryo-Specific Mutants Altered in Embryo Morphogenesis Dale C. Brunelle, Janice K. Clark, William F. Sheridan G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics November 2017 7: 3559-3570; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.300293 Genomic Selection Genomic Prediction Within and Across Biparental Families: Means and Variances of Prediction Accuracy…
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Stressed-out worms hit the snooze button
When you catch a nasty cold, curling up in bed to sleep may be the only activity you can manage. Sleeping in response to stress isn’t a uniquely human behavior: many other animals have the same reaction, and it’s not clear why. While the circadian sleep that follows the pattern of the clock has been…
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November GENETICS Highlights
Check out the November issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Ethanol stimulates locomotion via a Gas-signalling pathway in IL2 neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans, pp. 1023–1039 James R. Johnson, Mark R. Edwards, Huw Davies, Daniel Newman, Whitney Holden, Rosalind E. Jenkins, Robert D. Burgoyne, Robert J. Lucas, and Jeff W. Barclay Alcohol…
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Behind the Cover: Genetic ancestry in Colombia
Over three centuries, as many as a million enslaved people were shipped to the Colombian port of Cartagena. From this hub of the slave trade, European colonists took Africans to labor in many places across the Americas, including the gold mines of the Chocó region. Today, people from Chocó often proudly identify as Afro-Colombian, while…