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Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the Yeast Genetics Meeting 2022! Undergraduate  Austin Lytle, Morehead State University Poster Title: Genetically engineering a strain of S. cerevisiae with a single circular chromosome “Using our experimental approach, I successfully circularized Ch. II in S. ceraviseae and current analysis shows no phenotypic differences between the…

We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 31st Fungal Genetics Conference! Congratulations to all! Jorge Lightfoot, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center   Fungal hypoxia adaptation is critical for the establishment of keratitis vayu maini rekdal, UC Berkeley CRISPR-Cas9 engineering of A. oryzae for meat-like flavor and appearance Amber Matha,…

Ever since Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection in 1858, biologists have been pondering exactly how selection works, somehow driving the evolution from single-celled life to the wide array of complex vertebrates that now populate the planet. As advances in technology have enabled genomic mapping at increasingly finer resolution, the questions have only…

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. Kristen Navarro Communication and Outreach Subcommittee Ohio State University Research Interest My love of science did not initially come from a place of positivity or wonder. It came from…

Harmit Malik loves conflict—genetic conflict, that is. “I’m really interested in this idea that components of the same genome, or components of different genomes, are constantly doing battle with each other,” says Malik, who heads a lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. To understand genetic conflict, Malik focuses on the parts of the…

The GSA team welcomes Jenna Daenzer, PhD, as the new Peer Review Coordinator! Jenna will be involved with GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, reviewing incoming manuscripts for quality and administering programs like the Peer Review Training Program.   Can you tell us a little bit about your background and your career trajectory? I grew up in the…

GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Spring 2022! 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…

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Natasha Kirienko as the new Associate Editor at G3. Natasha Kirienko Associate Editor Natasha Kirienko is an Associate Professor at Rice University. Her research focuses on the broad cellular roles of mitochondria, whose dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a key contributor in a wide variety of diseases,…

Becoming the president of a world-class university isn’t something that typically happens “by accident,” but that’s exactly how Shirley Tilghman describes it. “I did not intend to be a university president,” Tilghman says. “I probably had the steepest learning curve of any university president ever.” In 2000, Tilghman was serving as founding director of the…

Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the 2022 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference! Undergraduate Students First Place: Rachel EderArizona State UniversityPoster Title: Understanding the heterogeneity in gene regulatory responses to misfolded protein toxicity Second Place: Doran GoldmanStanford UniversityPoster Title: Effect of inoculation dose on colonization success in gut-derived microbial communities Graduate…

Congratulations to the winners of the Editors’ Choice Awards for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2021! 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, population and evolutionary genetics,…