Community Voices

In the Decoding Life series, we talk to geneticists with diverse career paths, tracing the many directions possible after research training. This series is brought to you by the GSA Early Career Scientist Career Development Subcommittee. Vincenzo Alessandro Gennarino is an Assistant Professor of Genetics & Development at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. His career,…

What scientists can learn from pandemic communication failures.

Guest post by Emma Hinkle. The field of genetics has provided some of the answers to life’s biggest questions. However, discovering the base pairs that define us has more often driven us apart instead of together. Genetics should be for all people, but this field lacks equity in three specific ways: education, research, and representation. …

We’re taking time to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us to learn more about our 2020 early career scientist advocates. Frederick Boehm Community and Member Engagement Committee University of Massachusetts Medical School Postdoc Researcher Research Interest Statistical methods are essential for the design, analysis and interpretation of genetics studies.…

We’re taking time to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us to learn more about our 2020 early career scientist advocates. Oindrila De Career Development Subcommittee Case Western Reserve University  Graduate Student Research interest I’m fascinated by how cells grow, change their shape, attain specialized functions, organize themselves into…

Quick tips for making vaccine science understandable to non-scientists. Guest post by Elisabeth Marnik, Ph.D. It’s been more than a year since the world started shutting down in the wake of widespread COVID-19 cases. We are still living through a pandemic, but the United States is finally starting to see a light at the end…

We’re taking time to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us to learn more about our 2020 early career scientist advocates. Michelle Jonika Career Development Subcommittee Department of Biology, Texas A&M University PhD Candidate Research Interest Sex chromosomes, which are chromosomes that segregate differently among the sexes, have evolved…

We’re taking time to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Leadership Committees. Join us to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Molly Matty Career Development Subcommittee  Molecular Neurobiology Labs, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellow Research Interest I am interested in host-microbe interactions. The profound effects microscopic organisms…

We’re taking time to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Leadership Committees. Join us to learn more about our 2020 early career scientist advocates. Lossie “Elle” Rooney Policy Subcommittee North Carolina State University PhD Candidate in Genetics Research Interest Gene regulation is often referred to as the “dark matter” of the genome.…

We’re taking time to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us to learn more about our 2020 early career scientist advocates. Marie Berenguer Early Career Scientist Community and Membership Engagement Subcommittee Development, Aging, and Regeneration Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Postdoc Associate   Research Interest Embryonic development…

Periodically, Mother Nature seems as if she is angry with us, like when Hurricane Katrina drowned my childhood hometown of New Orleans and nearly 2,000 of its citizens. Sometimes we humans bring destruction down upon each other, like the terrorist attacks of 9/11. And then there was 2020. Like many of you, as we rang…