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Dear GSA Members, 2015 has been a very important and productive year for the GSA, with much progress on issues critical to our community. Here are a few of the highlights: Following the incredible success of YeastBook in GENETICS, the GSA has just launched FlyBook, with Lynn Cooley as Editor-in-Chief—and will soon launch WormBook with…

A proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Labor could soon mandate that postdocs making less than $50,440 per year will be eligible for overtime pay at 1.5 times their hourly rate. Research labs are generally not prepared to track overtime hours and many do not have the additional funds available to pay postdocs above…

  Early this morning, the U.S. House of Representatives released the text of the fiscal year (FY) 2016 omnibus appropriations bill, which would fund the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year on September 30, 2016. The bill includes increases for all of the science agencies of interest to the GSA community:…

Current GSA President Jasper Rine and former GSA President H. Robert Horvitz have been named to the 2015 class of Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). According to the NAI press release, “election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of…

The 2016 GSA membership year is off and running, and we ask you to renew your membership today—or to join us for the first time.     GSA is THE professional society for faculty, postdocs, grad students, undergrads, educators, and others interested in genetics. The Society’s more than 5,500 members worldwide work to deepen our understanding…

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the selection of nine new Trainee Representatives who will serve on the Board of Directors and the Society’s programmatic committees. The GSA Trainee Representative program began in 2013 as a way to engage students and postdocs in the Society and offer an opportunity for the…

Last week, the National Academies of Science and Engineering joined forces with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Royal Society of the United Kingdom to host an International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington, DC. Top scholars in genetics, bioengineering, ethics, and law debated the merits of human gene editing; however consensus was far from achieved.…

GSA needs your input! We are brainstorming about catchy slogans, images, or objects that represent the whole of the genetics community. The kind of thing that you’d like to wear on a t-shirt and that would appeal across the GSA community. What does your GSA look like? What do you love most about the genetics community?…

    Congratulations to the eight GSA members who have been elected as AAAS Fellows in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership:   Julie A. Brill, PhD (Section on Biological Sciences) Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children; and Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto G3 Associate Editor, 2011–2014  …

The Drosophila community has issued its call for submissions for the 2016 Drosophila Image Award, which will be presented on July 14, 2016, at the 57th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, being held as part of The Allied Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida. Presence at the meeting is not required to enter or win an Image…

NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has announced that Dorit Zuk, PhD, will be the next director of the institute’s Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology (GDB). She will join NIGMS in early 2016. NIGMS’ GDB division funds basic research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms related to inheritance, gene expression, and development. Many of…