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Looking up to blue skies
GSA President Jeannie Lee invites your input. Like everything right now, science is changing fast. It seems like every time I look up from my work, the view has shifted, and the landscape is a little less familiar. This speed can be both exciting and disorienting, but either way, it pays to scan the horizon…
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2018 Crow Award finalists presenting at #PEQG18
We are delighted to announce the finalists for the James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award! All finalists will speak at the Crow Award session of the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference on May 14, 2018 in Madison, Wisconsin. The Award honors the legacy of James F. Crow, whose contributions to the field of…
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Enter the #PEQG18 T-shirt design contest!
Get creative for the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference. Show your creative side, and inspire the population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics community by entering the #PEQG18 T-shirt design contest! The winning entry will be used on official conference T-shirts available for sale at the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference, to be held…
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Preview the lineup at the 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference
Don’t miss out on this year’s Annual Drosophila Research Conference; check out the fantastic lineup of invited speakers below! The conference will be held April 11–15, 2018 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, covering a diversity of topics, from genetics, to molecular biology, cell biology, development, immunology, physiology, neuroscience, evolution, and more. As well as the…
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Learning to peer review: program update
An update on the pilot GENETICS Peer Review Training Program, which provides early career scientists with a mentored peer review experience in which they participate in authentic manuscript reviews. The second phase of the pilot program is currently accepting applicants. As a scientific society publisher, the GSA serves our community. That’s why we are so…
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Undergrad Travel Award winners — Spring 2018
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 Spring 2018! Mayra M. Banuelos San Francisco State University STRs (short tandem…
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The Genetics Society of America and Figshare partner to promote data underlying publications
The GSA Journals are excited to announce that we have partnered with Figshare to archive supplemental material and data from papers published in GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. When you publish a paper in GENETICS or G3, you help to catalyze scientific advances by sharing experimental reagents, results, and interpretations. For these articles to have the…
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Three GENETICS articles from 2017 recognized with Editors’ Choice Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the Editors’ Choice Awards for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2017! The journal’s Editorial Board considered a diverse range of articles, finding many papers worthy of recognition. After much deliberation, they settled on one exceptional article for each of the three award categories: molecular genetics, quantitative genetics, and population and evolutionary genetics.…
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Talk shop at the #Dros18 community lunch
Take a deep dive into the latest topics in our field over lunch at the 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Each discussion at the Community, Connections, & Lunch event will be moderated by established and up-and-coming community leaders, who will explore the latest scientific findings, such as presentations from the conference and hot topics in…
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New leaders join the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Leadership Program
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the latest cohort of student and postdoc leaders joining the Early Career Scientist Leadership Program. Participants receive training and mentoring and serve on committees charged with understanding the interests, concerns, and challenges of early career scientist members of the GSA. As part of this leadership and professional development program,…
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2018 Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award winners headed to #Dros18
GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award. This award, which honors the memory of Victoria Finnerty, supports travel costs for undergraduates engaged in research to attend the 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Congratulations, undergrads! We’ll see you in Philadelphia. Leah Anderson The Ohio State University “I’m studying the binding properties…