Articles by Editorial Staff (519 results)

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) and the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) of Harvard Medical School announce a new partnership to build public dialogue about genetic technologies. Their joint program aims to better equip scientists to engage in discussions about genetics with all communities, with special emphasis on those who have been marginalized, economically…

GENETICS is pleased to announce three new editors: Jonathan Flint, Michael Gore, and Aurélien Tellier. GENETICS Jonathan Flint David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Jonathan Flint is a British behavior geneticist and professor in residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In 2015, he…

GENETICS is pleased to announce three new editors: Barbara Conradt, Eva Hoffmann, and Jianming Yu. GENETICS Barbara Conradt University College London, UK Conradt studied in Germany and the US. For her PhD she joined Bill Wickner’s lab at UCLA where she worked on biochemical analyses of vacuole inheritance in S. cerevisiae. As a postdoc, she joined…

The GSA Equity and Inclusion Committee shares progress and plans for the future and introduces the Presidential Membership Initiative.

GENETICS, the flagship journal of the Genetics Society of America, is pleased to announce that Howard Lipshitz of the University of Toronto will become its Editor in Chief in January 2021. Mark Johnston of the University of Colorado School of Medicine has served as Editor in Chief of GENETICS since 2009. Johnston ushered in a…

As we wrap up Peer Review Week 2020, here’s a look at how the GSA journals help build trust in peer review. Our data availability policy means that reviewers and editors can really dig into the data during the review process—and that readers can access the data and build on it moving forward!   Expert…

GENETICS and G3 are pleased to announce three new editors: Yasuhiko Kawakami, Amy Ralston, and Jordan Ward. GENETICS Yasuhiko Kawakami University of Minnesota I am interested in understanding the mechanisms that regulate specification, proliferation and patterning, leading to morphogenesis of functional tissues and organs. I use mice and zebrafish to study mechanisms of development of the…

Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Genetics Society of America (GSA) are pleased to announce that OUP will publish the GSA journals GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics beginning January 2021. GENETICS is a peer-reviewed, peer-edited journal with an international reach and increasing visibility and impact. Since 1916, GENETICS has published high-quality, original research presenting novel findings…

GENETICS is excited to announce five new editors: Needhi Balla, Victoria Meller, Houra Merrikh, Yi Rao, and Yikang Rong. Needhi Balla University of California, Santa Cruz           Needhi Bhalla received her B.A. at Columbia College and her Ph.D. at University of California, San Francisco, and she performed her post-doc training at…

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is excited to announce the latest cohort of student and postdoc leaders joining the Early Career Scientist Leadership Program.  Participants receive training and mentoring and serve on committees charged with understanding the needs, interests, concerns, and challenges of early career scientists members of the GSA. As part of this…

Our safety and prosperity are more dependent than ever on scientific breakthroughs. Medical advances like vaccines, rapid diagnostics, and new drugs all require a robust and innovative STEM workforce, as do other endeavors that hinge on genetic research, including agriculture, biotechnology, and conservation. The contributions of immigrant and visiting scientists in the US have substantially…