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FeaturedThe Fly Meeting is one-of-a-kind! Dros 2025 organizers share their excitement
The 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference promises to be a meeting rich with the latest in Drosophila research as well as opportunities to advance your career and connect with a global community of 1,400+ scientists. The organizers Todd Nystul, Michelle Bland, Leila Rieder, Amanda Crocker, and Justin Crocker are hard at work, planning a conference…
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FeaturedEarly Career Leadership Spotlight: Olufemi Osonowo
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 early career scientist advocates. Olufemi Adekunle OsonowoCareer Development SubcommitteeDalhousie University Research Interest Metabolomics and genomics are two distinct but complimentary approaches that offer valuable insights into the underlying mechanisms of complex traits, such…
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FeaturedEarly Career Leadership Spotlight: Hector Mendoza
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 early career scientist advocates. Hector MendozaCommunication and Outreach SubcommitteeUniversity of Michigan Research Interest My research goals converge around the evolution of sexual reproduction. During my doctoral program, I investigated mitochondrial inheritance, a mechanism…
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FeaturedPaths to Science Policy with Rick Weiss
In this interview, we speak with Rick Weiss, a prolific science and technology reporter for over three decades and founder and director of SciLine, an independent service for scientists and journalists to get more science into the news. This service is based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). We spoke to…
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FeaturedThomas Hurd joins GENETICS as associate editor
A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in the Molecular Genetics of Development section. We’re excited to welcome Thomas Hurd to the editorial team.
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FeaturedNew Senior Editor joins G3
A new associate editor is joining G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Alexander Edward Lipka to the editorial team.
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FeaturedG3 announces new Senior Editor, Antonis Rokas
A new senior editor is joining G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Antonis Rokas to the editorial team.
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FeaturedThe power of genetic screening: identifying genes that alter nervous system shape in Drosophila
New results published in G3 summarize the genetic pathways controlling nervous system structure and explore how a single gene regulates tissue shape in a cell-type specific manner.
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FeaturedResearchers develop new approach to document genetic ancestry
New work in GENETICS adds definition to ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs), supporting the analysis of genomic big data.
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FeaturedFour new pipelines to streamline and improve genomic analyses
G3 reports exciting methods designed to make specific genomic analyses easier.
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FeaturedExperts shed light on the past, present, and future of the eugenics movement and how it persists in society today
Eugenics is a stain on the founding of the field of genetics, one that modern geneticists must still reckon with. The Allied Genetics Conference 2024 featured a thought-provoking panel discussion on this subject, moderated by past GSA Presidents Denise Montell and Tracy Johnson. Panelists Katrina Claw, Nathaniel Comfort, Steven Farber, Daniel HoSang, and Jazlyn Mooney…