Nick Rhind
Senior Editor
Nick Rhind studied math and biology as an undergraduate at Brown University and found the biology a lot easier. He went on to do his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, studying worm sex-determination in the Meyer lab. However, studying one thousand cells at once was a bit too complicated. So, for his postdoctoral training, he moved to Paul Russell’s’ lab at the Scripps Research Institute to try to figure out how fission yeast know how big they are. There, he also became interested in how and why cells regulate the cell cycle in response to DNA damage. He has continued those lines of research in his own laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, focusing recently on cell size and more general questions about the regulation of DNA replication kinetics, work that has led back to his mathematical roots, with productive collaborations in both genomic analysis and analytic modeling.
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Researchers 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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Four new pipelines to streamline and improve genomic analyses
G3 reports exciting methods designed to make specific genomic analyses easier.
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Experts 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…