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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 GSA Awards!
The Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of its annual awards for distinguished service in the field of genetics. The awardees were nominated and selected by their colleagues and will be recognized with presentations at The Allied Genetics Conference, held April 22–26, 2020 in the metro Washington, DC area. The…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Ana Mesquita
We’re taking time 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. Ana Mesquita Policy Subcommittee Albert Einstein College of Medicine Research Interest Autophagy is a catabolic process that occurs in all eukaryotic organisms analyzed to date. It is critical…
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In memory of David Hogness
Guest post by from Kenneth C. Burtis (University of California, Davis) and Mariana F. Wolfner (Cornell University). We note with great sadness the death of one of the giants of 20th century genetics, David Swenson Hogness, who passed away in Stanford, California on December 24, 2019 at the age of 94. The title of this blog, Genes…
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Tracy Raines: Success through persistence and passion
Tracy Raines works at AgBiome as a project leader and strategist. Her scientific career spans academia and industry. In her current role, she oversees the company’s workflow while also working in business and partnership development. 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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Geneticists, let’s talk about forensic genetics at the US border
Guest post by Charleen Adams. The Trump administration has proposed legislation that would make it legal to forcibly collect DNA from hundreds of thousands of migrants held in detention centers at the US-Mexico border [1,2]. This type of mass genetic surveillance is unprecedented. The closest comparison we have for it is the routine screening of…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Ina Anreiter
We’re taking time 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. Ina Anreiter Early Career Scientist Steering Committee Department of Computer Science; University of Toronto Research Interest I’m a molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist, interested in the…
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New members of the GSA Board of Directors: 2020–2022
We are pleased to announce the election of five new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors: 2020 Vice-President/2021 President Hugo Bellen Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience, and Developmental Biology, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine Hugo Bellen is a Drosophila geneticist who has…