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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…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Katherine Maniates
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. Katherine Maniates Policy and Advocacy Subcommittee Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University Postdoc Research Interest For my dissertation research, I focused on understanding how the…
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Kellyann Jones-Jamtgaard: A career opportunity and network building success story
Kellyann Jones-Jamtgaard is a Biological Sciences Specialist at the USDA, where she supports education grant programs. Here, she talks about her passion for communicating the value of science to society and how that led her to pursue a career in science education and policy. In the Decoding Life series, we talk to geneticists with diverse…
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Interview with Hugo Bellen and Shinya Yamamoto on the Model Organism Screen Centers of the Undiagnosed Disease Network
This is a guest post by Sarah Marshall, originally published in the Undiagnosed Disease Network’s Participant Engagement and Empowerment Resource (UDN PEER). In April 2021, I had the pleasure of interviewing Drs. Hugo Bellen [2021 GSA President] and Shinya Yamamoto about their work at the Model Organisms Screening Center (MOSC) at Baylor College of Medicine,…
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Vincenzo Alessandro Gennarino on curiosity, hard work, and passion for helping others
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,…
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So, you’ve been asked to talk to the public: lessons from COVID-19 news coverage
What scientists can learn from pandemic communication failures.
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Three ways that the field of genetics can be more equitable
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. …