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New Faculty Profile: Annalise Paaby
New faculty profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Annalise Paaby Assistant Professor, School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology Research program: My lab explores major questions in evolution and quantitative genetics.…
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NSF seeking nominations for Alan T. Waterman Award
The National Science Foundation is seeking nominations for its Alan T. Waterman Award. This annual award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 over a five year period for scientific research or advanced…
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Queer in STEM
This guest post is contributed by GSA member Jeremy Yoder of the University of British Columbia. (More about this author) Scientific workplaces are not particularly diverse. The underrepresentation of women and people of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has become a field of study in itself, with experimental and observational data…
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NIH seeking new director for National Library of Medicine
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications from exceptional candidates to be the next director of NIH’s National Library of Medicine (NLM). NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library that maintains and makes available a broad range of print and electronic resources. Current NLM databases include GenBank, PubMed, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Following from the…
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Celebrate National Postdoc Appreciation Week
GSA encourages the members of our community to join with their colleagues around the country to celebrate National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW). This sixth annual event, sponsored by the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA), recognizes the significant contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to research and discovery. In 2010, NPAW was officially recognized by the U.S. House…
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New Faculty Profile: Krista Dobi
This is the first in a series of profiles of GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Krista Dobi Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences Department Baruch College, City University of New York Research program: My lab uses…
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Biocurators: Behind the Data
Today’s guest post was contributed by Maria Costanzo of Stanford University. She has been a biocurator since before the term was coined and has contributed to genome database projects for a variety of fungi. The views expressed are her own. Follow her on Twitter: @mariaccostanzo. When someone asks what I do for a living,…
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Tips for scientists talking to the media
Today’s guest post is contributed by Robin Bisson, Director of the Genetic Expert News Service (GENeS). For scientists, talking to the media can be exciting, intimidating, powerful, or frustrating, and often a combination of all the above. It’s gratifying to read about your research in newspapers and well-read websites, or to see your name in…
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GSA Education Committee Chair Alison Gammie to head NIGMS training division
NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences has announced that Alison Gammie will serve as the new director of its Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD). The division supports a variety of research training, career development, and diversity-building activities from the undergraduate to the faculty levels. Gammie is currently Senior Lecturer in Molecular…
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Beth and Bryn on fly sex
Male Drosophila fruit flies perform an elaborate ritual when they court a female. The male first turns towards the female, follows her, taps her, vibrates his wings to produce a species-specific song, licks her genitalia, curves his abdomen toward her and, if all goes well, the pair finally copulate. These complex routines may help flies…