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The recipient of the 2018 Crow Award reveals details of flu evolution at the smallest —and largest—scales. For many viral diseases, a vaccine can provide lifelong protection. But for flu, you need a new shot every year. The influenza virus evolves so fast it presents a constantly moving target for both our immune systems and…

Turning vision into reality takes work—that much is obvious. But anyone who has written a proposal of any sort will realize that a coherent vision doesn’t appear out of thin air. It must be carefully crafted from an initial collection of goals, ideas, and ideals. This year, GSA’s staff, leadership, and membership are working hard…

GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Fall 2018! Given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, DeLill Nasser Awards support attendance at meetings and laboratory courses. The award is named in honor of DeLill Nasser, a long-time GSA supporter and National Science Foundation Program…

Watch presentations from the conference, including talks from Katie Peichel and Jonathan Pritchard. Now that the dust has settled from the whirlwind of the first ever standalone GSA Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference (PEQG18), we’re delighted to be able to share the audio and synched slides from the Keynote and Crow Award sessions. We’re…

Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the 2018 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference! Graduate Students Matthew Osmond University of British Columbia Poster title: Genetic paths to evolutionary rescue   Paloma Medina University of California, Santa Cruz Poster title: Estimating the Prevalence of Wolbachia Across Arthropod and Nematode Taxa   Ankeeta Shah University of…

GSA to nominate advisors to the Selection Advisory Board of the Gruber Genetics Prize To promote the public awareness and recognition of recent achievements in the field of genetics, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with The Gruber Foundation to award the Gruber Genetics Prize. This prize is…

To promote excellence in undergraduate research and education, the Genetics Society of America has established a travel award to assist undergraduate members attending a GSA conference to present their research. Congratulations to all the winners of the Undergraduate Travel Award for Summer 2018!           Ryan Cheng University of California, Los Angeles I study the…

The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present our annual Spotlight booklets for research published in 2017. Each Spotlight is a showcase of the excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year, along with a selection of striking images submitted by our authors. Browse the 2017 GENETICS Spotlight. Browse the 2017 G3 Spotlight.  

Attendees of the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference are a creative bunch.  Inspired by one of the PEQG Bingo challenges, they bombarded Twitter with more than 50 #PEQG18 haikus (and one limerick), providing poetic snippets of the meeting to those who couldn’t make it. Joining the 17-syllable summaries were fantastic sketch notes of the meeting by…

We are pleased to announce that Didem P. Sarikaya (University of California, Davis) has been appointed a Trainee Advisory Representative to the GSA Board of Directors for 2018–2020. Sarikaya has been a GSA member since 2010, and since 2017 has served as the Co-Chair of GSA’s Early Career Scientist Career Development Subcommittee, helping spearhead the…

We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference! Undergraduate and graduate student members of the GSA were eligible for the awards, and a hard-working team of postdocs volunteered their time as judges. Congratulations to all! Undergraduate Students 1st Place: Elizabeth Hemenway Institution: University of Missouri-Kansas City Poster Title: The Surprising composition of…