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2021 Jones Award: Edward J. Smith
Ed Smith knows the power of having footsteps to follow. Six of his older brothers earned PhDs, he says, and observing their experiences helped him set his course. “It was important to me to learn from them,” he says. “If you have a good role model, you’ll be able to follow their paths, and you…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Frederick Boehm
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 2020 early career scientist advocates. Frederick Boehm Community and Member Engagement Committee University of Massachusetts Medical School Postdoc Researcher Research Interest Statistical methods are essential for the design, analysis and interpretation of genetics studies.…
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Introducing new Neurogenetics & Behavior editors to GENETICS
GENETICS is pleased to announce eight new editors for the Neurogenetics & Behavior section of the journal: Arantza Barrios, Tamara Caspary, Catherine Kaczorowski, Karla Kaun, Kyuhyung Kim, Roger Pocock, Hongyan Wang, and Jill Wildonger. Arantza Barrios Arantza Barrios is an Associate Professor/Reader in Neurobiology at University College London. Her lab uses the C. elegans male to investigate…
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2021 Morgan Medal: Ruth Lehmann
One of life’s great mysteries is how a single egg cell can contain all the information needed to create a fully specialized complex organism, including more egg cells. Ruth Lehmann, director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT, has done a tremendous amount to solve that mystery. Beginning in her graduate student days, she uncovered a…
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Congratulations, Undergraduate Travel Award winners!
To promote excellence in undergraduate research and education, GSA established the Undergraduate Travel Award, which supports travel costs for undergraduate members who are presenting at and attending a GSA conference. Congratulations to the Fall 2020 awardees! Susan Afolabi University of Maryland Baltimore County I am studying the effect of ferritin an iron storage molecule in…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Oindrila De
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 2020 early career scientist advocates. Oindrila De Career Development Subcommittee Case Western Reserve University Graduate Student Research interest I’m fascinated by how cells grow, change their shape, attain specialized functions, organize themselves into…
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How to talk to family and friends about COVID-19 vaccines
Quick tips for making vaccine science understandable to non-scientists. Guest post by Elisabeth Marnik, Ph.D. It’s been more than a year since the world started shutting down in the wake of widespread COVID-19 cases. We are still living through a pandemic, but the United States is finally starting to see a light at the end…
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Strawberry detectives retrace family roots
Geneticists dig up the dirt on 300 years of succulence. When Steve Knapp started his new job at the University of California, Davis, he plunged into a forensic mystery that would take years to unravel. He wasn’t hunting a criminal or identifying a missing person, but the challenge before him was just as formidable: reconstructing…
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Welcoming new Computational Resources, Software, & Databases editors to GENETICS
GENETICS is pleased to announce six new editors for the Computational Resources, Software, & Databases section of the journal: Anastasia Baryshnikova, Judith Blake, Michael Brent, Todd Harris, Marian Walhout, and Valerie Wood. Anastasia Baryshnikova Anastasia is a Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences LLC, an Alphabet-founded research and development company focused on understanding the biology of…