Articles by Editorial Staff (434 results)

GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Fall 2018! Given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, DeLill Nasser Awards support attendance at meetings and laboratory courses. The award is named in honor of DeLill Nasser, a long-time GSA supporter and National Science Foundation Program…

Watch presentations from the conference, including talks from Katie Peichel and Jonathan Pritchard. Now that the dust has settled from the whirlwind of the first ever standalone GSA Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference (PEQG18), we’re delighted to be able to share the audio and synched slides from the Keynote and Crow Award sessions. We’re…

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.           Jaclyn Bubnell Diversity Subcommittee Cornell University Research Interest Genetic variation provides a species opportunities to adapt to its…

Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the 2018 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference! Graduate Students Matthew Osmond University of British Columbia Poster title: Genetic paths to evolutionary rescue   Paloma Medina University of California, Santa Cruz Poster title: Estimating the Prevalence of Wolbachia Across Arthropod and Nematode Taxa   Ankeeta Shah University of…

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.           Laura Taylor Policy Subcommittee University of Washington Research Interest Alzheimer’s Disease and other related dementias, collectively known as…

GSA to nominate advisors to the Selection Advisory Board of the Gruber Genetics Prize To promote the public awareness and recognition of recent achievements in the field of genetics, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with The Gruber Foundation to award the Gruber Genetics Prize. This prize is…

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.           Mahantesh Biradar Communication and Outreach Subcommittee National Yang Ming University, Taiwan Research Interest Lipid levels are a well-known…

To promote excellence in undergraduate research and education, the Genetics Society of America has established a travel award to assist undergraduate members attending a GSA conference to present their research. Congratulations to all the winners of the Undergraduate Travel Award for Summer 2018!           Ryan Cheng University of California, Los Angeles I study the…

The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present our annual Spotlight booklets for research published in 2017. Each Spotlight is a showcase of the excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year, along with a selection of striking images submitted by our authors. Browse the 2017 GENETICS Spotlight. Browse the 2017 G3 Spotlight.  

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.           Dina Beeler Career Development Subcommittee University of Illinois at Chicago Research Interest The creativity and curiosity of my…

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.           Carla Bautista Rodriguez Communication and Outreach Subcommittee Université Laval Research Interest Until relatively recently, the thought of extraterrestrial…