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Asav Dharia on finding the “value-add” in your career
Asav Dharia works as a Competitive Talent Strategist and Research Analyst at Flagship Pioneering, matching leading scientists with newly forming companies and technologies. He’s centered his career on finding the big picture in science and looking for a niche where being a scientist becomes the value-add. In the Decoding Life series, we talk to geneticists with diverse…
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Guest post: Chromosome-scale genome assembly gives African mosquito and malaria vector fewer places to hide its secrets
Guest post by Kathryn “Kaylee” Mueller, Phase Genomics. Plasmodium parasites—the microbes that cause malaria—are right at home in the tropics. After all, tropical regions harbor the two animals that the malaria parasites need to complete their complex lifecycle: female Anopheles mosquitoes and human beings. And in 2017 alone, Plasmodiumracked up 219 million cases of malaria,…
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2019 Career Development Symposia: RNA biology, DNA replication and repair, science immersion, Bay Area worms
We are proud to support four new symposia organized by student and postdoctoral members of the GSA! Check out the descriptions from the 2019 awardees of GSA Career Development Symposia funding. This program empowers early career members to organize local events that enhance the professional development of their peers, including career skills symposia, workshops, and networking events. TREnD2019: Toronto…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Vandana Raghavan
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 2019 early career scientist advocates. Vandana Raghavan Communication and Outreach Subcommittee Cornell University Research Interest Maintaining the correct genetic code of an organism is essential for…
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#Dros19 GSA Poster Award winners
We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 60th 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: Tanner Call Institution: Brigham Young University…
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2019 Fungal Genetics Conference Poster Winners
Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the 2019 Fungal Genetics Conference! Fabrizio Alberti Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick “The aim of my research is to understand how antibiotic and anticancer terpenoid molecules are made by basidiomycete fungi.” María Angélica Bravo Núñez Graduate student, Stowers Institute for Medical Research “I study…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Amanda Shaver
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Amanda Shaver Co-Chair Early Career Scientist Career Development Subcommittee University of Georgia Research Interest Parasitic nematode worms impose debilitating global health and economic…
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Meet early career scientists working in genomic prediction
Learn about some of the work that graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty are contributing to the field of genomic prediction. Since 2012, the GSA Journals have published a series of papers focused on genomic prediction. We’re excited to announce a newly-organized Series page that makes it easy to navigate the extensive collection of…
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“Predicting” the future: how genomic prediction methods anticipated technology
A landmark paper published in GENETICS founded the field of genomic prediction before the requisite technology was available. When a new technology is developed, it can allow scientists to make great strides in addressing longstanding questions. Occasionally, however, researchers think so critically about a knowledge gap in their field that they’re able to propose a…
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Congratulations to Michael Snyder for receiving the 2019 George W. Beadle Award!
Michael Snyder, PhD, of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America (GSA) George W. Beadle Award for developing and disseminating widely-used technology for the simultaneous analysis of thousands of genes, RNA molecules, and proteins. Beginning with studies of baker’s yeast and later expanding to humans, Snyder’s sharing of tools and…