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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Karishma Gangwani
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 2021 early career scientist advocates. Karishma GangwaniCommunication and Outreach SubcommitteeUniversity of Dayton Research Interest: I am in my final year of a PhD program in Biology, where I conduct my doctoral research in the…
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Hybrid (conference) vigor
Four GSA communities are excited to meet in person in 2022 — and to experiment with hybrid conferences that combine the benefits of online and in-person meetings. After two years of online meetings of all kinds, we are thrilled to return to scientific conversations in person! In 2022, many of us will be together again,…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Ananya Nidamangala Srinivasa
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 2021 early career scientist advocates. Ananya Nidamangala Srinivasa Multimedia Subcommittee University of Kansas Medical Center Research interest Meiosis is a specialized form of cell division that some diploid organisms use to make haploid gametes.…
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In Memoriam: Richard Lewontin
Dick on sabbatical and my good fortune Guest post in memory of Richard Lewontin by Thoru Pederson. When I was a graduate student in the Zoology Department at Syracuse University, a visiting professor took an office across the hall from the lab where I was stationed. He came “across” to me (not a cis-trans test…
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100 years since the medaka’s international debut: Aida’s legacy
From a Kyoto garden to scientific discoveries. Since the 17th century, medaka fish have been bred for their beautiful colors. Shortly after the 1900 re-discovery of Mendel’s laws of inheritance, medaka began to be used for genetic studies. Recessive inheritance of the orange-red (b) and white (r) variants, female-limited appearance of the white phenotype, and an…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Melissa Drown
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 2021 early career scientist advocates. Melissa Drown Career Development Subcommittee University of Miami Research Interest For my thesis, I study the evolution of complex traits such as metabolic rate and thermal tolerance in a…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Madhumala Sadanandappa
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 2021 early career scientist advocates. Madhumala K. Sadanandappa Co-Chair, Career Development Subcommittee Member, Steering Committee Postdoc at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Research Interest “Nothing in neurobiology makes sense except in the light of behavior,” a quote…
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In memoriam: Jean R. David (1931-2021)
Jean Robert David, the last active member of the French generation who significantly contributed to the establishment of the nine species in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup as a model for evolutionary genetics, passed away on June 19, 2021, aged 90. Jean dedicated his 70-year academic career to studying Drosophila biology and evolution, starting as an…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Jiae Lee
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 2021 early career scientist advocates. Jiae Lee Multimedia Subcommittee University of Washington and University of California, Irvine Postdoc Scholar Research Interest For more than 15 years, flies have been my science partner. With flies,…
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Working together during the COVID-19 pandemic, a silver lining in a trying time
Guest post by A.J. Marian Walhout, PhD. Massachusetts, March 2020: The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic that would profoundly affect us all. Labs shut down abruptly, assay trials were disrupted, some experiments in progress were thrown out. Now what? With pipettes unused on the bench and the foreseeable future unclear, how long would this…
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PMI Expressions: Xin Jin
Join us for the PMI Expressions series, where we will get to know the 2021 cohort of GSA Presidential Members. Xin Jin Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience The Scripps Research Institute What is your current research? My longstanding interest is to understand how brain development is shaped by genes and environment, and how these factors…