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We are pleased to announce that Richard C. Lewontin, PhD is the 2017 recipient of the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. This award recognizes Lewontin’s extensive impact on our understanding of evolution, a broad and deep influence that has shaped the field. An unprecedented 160 distinguished biologists co-signed a…

We are pleased to announce that Jonathan Hodgkin, PhD is the 2017 recipient of the Edward Novitski Prize in recognition of his extraordinary creativity and intellectual ingenuity in solving significant problems in genetics research. Hodgkin uncovered the sex determination pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans, an important and widely used model for animal development and genetics. His…

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.           Sumeet Nayak Communication & Outreach Subcommittee Co-Chair University of Massachusetts Medical School Research Interest: My research interest…

President Trump has proposed crippling cuts to federally supported research —including a reduction of medical research funding by nearly a fifth—that would be a disaster not just for innovation, but for Americans’ health and economic prosperity. Cuts at this unprecedented scale would have both immediate and long-term consequences: Promising research projects abandoned, labs closed, and…

We are pleased to announce that Sally G. Hoskins, PhD is the 2017 recipient of the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education. This award recognizes her role in developing and promoting the transformative CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, and Think of the next Experiment) method. This innovative approach uses primary…

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.         Alison Gerken Communication & Outreach Subcommittee Liaison United States Department of Agriculture Research Interest: I am working to…

Check out the March issue of G3! Table of Contents Investigations Genomic Regions Associated with Tolerance to Freezing Stress and Snow Mold in Winter Wheat Erika B. Kruse, Scott W. Carle, Nuan Wen, Daniel Z. Skinner, Timothy D. Murray, Kimberly A. Garland-Campbell, Arron H. Carter G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics March 2017, 7: 775-780; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.037622…

We are pleased to announce that Susan A. Gerbi, PhD is the 2017 recipient of the George W. Beadle Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the genetics community. In the course of her research on DNA replication and amplification, Gerbi has helped develop techniques for mapping replication origins, genome sequencing, and whole organism…

We are pleased to announce that David Kingsley, PhD is the 2017 recipient of the GSA Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the past 15 years. His experimental work has shifted paradigms about how the physical traits of vertebrate organisms evolve. Kingsley is a Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator…

Check out the March issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Simultaneous modeling of disease status and clinical phenotypes to increase power in genome-wide association studies, pp. 1041-1047 Michael Bilow, Fernando Crespo, Zhicheng Pan, Eleazar Eskin, and Susana Eyheramendy Jointly modeling clinical phenotype and disease status is a promising…

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the newly appointed leaders of our Early Career Scientist Steering Committee. The committee is charged with understanding the interests, concerns, and challenges of early career scientist members of the GSA. As part of this leadership and professional development program, appointees will explore current policies and…