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New Faculty Profile: David Garcia
New Faculty Profiles allow GSA members who are establishing their first labs to introduce themselves to our wider community. If you’d like to submit your profile, please complete this form. David Garcia Assistant Professor Institute of Molecular Biology University of Oregon Lab website Briefly describe the ongoing and expected research projects as your lab gets up and running.…
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New Faculty Profile: Aakanksha Singhvi
New Faculty Profiles allow GSA members who are establishing their first labs to introduce themselves to our wider community. If you’d like to submit your profile, please complete this form. Aakanksha Singhvi Assistant Member Division of Basic Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Lab website Briefly describe the ongoing and expected research projects as your lab gets up…
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How can we make scientific conferences better for parents?
Guest post by Tânia Reis, Chair of GSA’s Conference Childcare Committee, on barriers to conference participation and how we can address them. I’m a Scientist. I’m a Mom. I couldn’t pick one over the other; half of me would be missing. I am lucky I have never had to choose. Yet, there were and are…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Zach Grochau-Wright
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. Zach Grochau-Wright Early Career Scientist Communication Outreach Subcommittee Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona Research Interest In ~4 billion years of evolution,…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Abigail DiVito
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. Abigail DiVito Career Development Subcommittee University of Pennsylvania Research Interest My research investigates how chromatin state determines the gene expression programs associated…
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Coffee and epistasis: a scientific story of sips and SNPs
Guest authors C. Brandon Ogbunugafor and Rafael F. Guerrero demystify higher order epistasis through a short story about the perfect brew. Epistasis is the flavor of the month Epistasis is one of the most popular and provocative topics in modern genetics. It has many different definitions, but one especially useful one is that epistasis is…
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Finding fresh mutations
Improved duplex sequencing identifies spontaneous mutations in bacteria without long-term culturing. Spontaneous mutations are the driving force of evolution, yet, our ability to detect and study them can be limited to mutations that accumulate clonally. Sequencing technology often cannot identify very rare variants or discriminate between bona fide mutations and errors introduced during sample preparation.…
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Oh, Baby, the Conferences You’ll Go!
A member of GSA’s Conference Childcare Committee presents an overview of childcare resources available at scientific conferences. Guest post by Madhumala K. Sadanandappa. Recently, I received an email from the Genetics Society of America (GSA) regarding my interest in being a part of the Conference Childcare Committee that aims to tackle the childcare-conference conundrum as outlined…
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Feedback is welcome
Analysis of insulin-like signaling in C. elegans reveals extensive positive and negative feedback regulation. The insulin-like signaling system of nematode worms is comparable to that of more complex organisms; it helps regulate a wide range of the animal’s biology, including metabolism, growth, and development. This system is remarkably flexible, with the ability to maintain a…