Articles by Editorial Staff (435 results)

Check out the February issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Feeding-related traits are affected by dosage of the foraging gene in Drosophila melanogaster, pp. 761-773 Aaron M. Allen, Ina Anreiter, Megan C. Neville, and Marla B. Sokolowski The foraging gene has been implicated in multiple feeding-related traits. Allen…

UPDATE, July 10, 2018 After more than a year of legal battles, the most recent version of the travel ban has been upheld by the Supreme Court. We wish to reiterate our previous statement, underlining the extent to which such restrictive policies not only harm the scientific community, but the technological and societal progress that…

We are proud to support three new symposia organized by student and postdoctoral members of the GSA! Read more below about the recipients of the fall 2016 round of funding from the GSA Trainee-Organized Symposia program. Proposed workshops were evaluated by the Society’s Mentoring and Professional Development Committee based on their relevance to the GSA mission, the need for and the uniqueness…

GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Spring 2017. The award is given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to support attendance at meetings and laboratory courses. The award is named in honor of DeLill Nasser, a long-time GSA supporter and National Science…

Don’t miss out on this year’s Annual Drosophila Research Conference: The late abstract deadline is January 23, 2017 and the early registration discount ends February 3, 2017. Check out the fantastic lineup of invited speakers below! More details of the conference are available here, including details of special events like the PI Early Career Forum,…

The GSA Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Jeannie T. Lee (HHMI/Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital) has been appointed GSA Vice-President. Last year, Barbara J. Meyer (HHMI/University of California, Berkeley) was elected the 2017 Vice-President and 2018 President of the GSA Board of Directors. Unfortunately, Meyer will no longer be able to take on…

Check out the January issue of G3! Table of Contents Investigations The CgHaa1-Regulon Mediates Response and Tolerance to Acetic Acid Stress in the Human Pathogen Candida glabrata Ruben T. Bernardo, Diana V. Cunha, Can Wang, Leonel Pereira, Sónia Silva, Sara B. Salazar, Markus S. Schröder, Michiyo Okamoto, Azusa Takahashi-Nakaguchi, Hiroji Chibana, Toshihiro Aoyama, Isabel Sá-Correia,…

Check out the January issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS This Month’s Centennial Articles The sustained impact of model organisms—in genetics and epigenetics, pp. 1-4 Nancy M. Bonini and Shelley L. Berger In this GENETICS Centennial commentary, Nancy M. Bonini and Shelley L. Berger reflect on the history of…

Do you have whole genome sequence (WGS) data burning a hole in your pocket? Many high-quality WGS datasets languish unpublished and undescribed because they may not always—in isolation—reveal substantial new biological insights. However, the editors of G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics recognize that WGS data on strain variation, comparative analysis of different model organism species, and other rich…

Let’s bid farewell to 2016 with a look back at some of your favorite Genes to Genomes post from the year—plus a few more we think you’ll like: Five most popular posts of 2016 Dear Mr. Trump GSA President Stan Fields advises US President-elect Donald Trump to surprise the world and make science the cornerstone of his administration. How…

Check out the December issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS This Month’s Centennial Articles Edward East on the Mendelian basis of quantitative trait variation, pp. 1321-1323 Michael Turelli Reviews editor Michael Turelli introduces Edward East’s 1916 Classic on the Mendelian basis of a continuously varying phenotype. This work exquisitely…