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Articles tagged C. elegans
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A young professor shaping how to study and communicate chromosome dynamics
2024 Genetics Society of America Early Career Medal recipient Ofer Rog pursues a mechanistic understanding of chromosome structure and function during meiosis.
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The worm whisperer: One scientist’s journey into understanding worms
2024 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Paul Sternberg’s decades-long discoveries in worm physiology, development, and behavior addressed fundamental mysteries in evolutionary biology, genetics, and systems neuroscience.
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News
TAGC 2024 Early Career Award Winners
GSA is pleased to announce the winners of the early career awards presented at The Allied Genetics Conference 2024. These awards are specific to particular TAGC communities and recognize early career scientists’ outstanding work on their respective research organisms. The awardees will present their talks in keynote sessions at TAGC 2024. Don’t miss the opportunity…
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Science & Publishing
New editor, Chun-Liang Pan, joins GENETICS
A new associate editor is joining GENETICS. We’re excited to welcome Chun-Liang Pan to the editorial team. Chun-Liang PanAssociate Editor Chun-Liang Pan is a Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU), in Taipei, Taiwan. He received an MD and completed residency in clinical neurology at NTU, and then obtained a…
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Genetic tools for pest, parasite, and disease vector control
This article is part of a series of posts outlining the history and impact of research in experimental organisms. The series is developed in collaboration with the GSA Public Communications and Engagement Committee. The idea that scientists could create a defensive shield to protect the United States may sound like science fiction, but it’s real,…
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Community Voices
Early Career Leadership Spotlight: Tammy Lee
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. Tammy Lee Multimedia Subcommittee University of Toronto Research Interest How is genetic information that is stored in the germline passed on from one generation to the next? The germline…
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New members of the GSA Board of Directors: 2023–2025
We are pleased to announce the election of five new leaders to the GSA Board of Directors: 2023 Vice President/2024 President Mariana Wolfner Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow My research has focused on the genes and pathways that mediate sexual development and reproduction, primarily in Drosophila. From…
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Early Career Leadership Spotlight: Kristen Navarro
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…
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Nerve cell organelle mystery
NUN bodies in C. elegans offer clues about nervous system differentiation. One of the most active areas of research today explores the differences between individual cell types and how cells become differentiated. This specialization of cell types relies on changes in gene expression, but how those changes are orchestrated remains unknown. Now, research published in…
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Nested CRISPR for cloning-free fluorescent tags
A better way to make endogenous reporters in C. elegans CRISPR systems for gene editing have revolutionized biological research, but the method still has limitations. While it is usually straightforward to delete parts of the genome using CRISPR, large insertions can be a challenge. This has been the case even for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans,…
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Genetics Society of America Awards 2019 GSA Medal to Anne Villeneuve
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that Anne Villeneuve, PhD, of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America Medal. Villeneuve is recognized for her research on the mechanisms governing chromosome inheritance during sexual reproduction. Her research focuses on meiosis, the specialized cell division program involved in…