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e-News
September 28, 2016 |
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| Society News |
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| We are pleased to announce results of the 2016 GSA Board of Directors elections! The following officers and directors will join the board in 2017: |
2017 Vice-President & 2018 President
Barbara Meyer, PhD (HHMI/University of California, Berkeley) |
Treasurer
Piali Sengupta, PhD (Brandeis University) |
Directors
Jef Boeke, PhD, DSc (NYU Langone Medical Center)
Hopi Hoekstra, PhD (HHMI/Harvard University)
Mary Lou Guerinot, PhD (Dartmouth College) |
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| Mark your calendar to attend the 29th Fungal Genetics Conference, March 14-19, 2017, in Pacific Grove, California, where Jay Dunlap (Dartmouth College) will give the Perkins/Metzenberg Lecture. You can also enter the meeting logo design competition! |
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| Conversations in Genetics is pleased to announce a new interview of Elliot Meyerowitz by Daphne Preuss. Listen to Meyerowitz discuss his work on Arabidopsis growth and development. |
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GSA Journals
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CALL FOR PAPERS: MULTIPARENTAL POPULATIONS
The GSA Journals are seeking new submissions for the Multiparental Populations (MPP) series. MPPs include the Drosophila Synthetic Reference Population, the Arabidopsis Multiparent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross (MAGIC) population, and the Collaborative Cross mice as well as diversity panels such as Diversity Outbred mice.
Read the call for papers here. |
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| “I would like to tame a small metazoan organism to study development directly.” wrote Sydney Brenner in 1963. Just over a decade later, in GENETICS, Brenner published mutant screen results from the newly tamed nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. In the latest issue of GENETICS, Bob Goldstein introduces Brenner's 1974 Classic, a paper that launched one of the most influential genetic model organisms in biology. |
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Sydney Brenner on the Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans
Bob Goldstein
GENETICS September 2016 204:1-2 |
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| Leadership opportunities for postdocs. By Cristy Gelling |
| We continue to seek energetic postdocs and students to help guide the GSA's initiatives and set our priorities. |
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| How might a CRISPR gene drive fail? By Nicole Haloupek |
| Efforts to engineer genomes in wild populations have huge potential for good—but the real world is more complicated than the lab. |
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| Happy 150th to a fruit fly wrangler who changed the world. By Cristy Gelling |
| In Kentucky 150 years ago today, a child was born who would - with the help of a hardy inhabitant of trashcans and fruitbowls - grow up to change the world. |
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| Kindred and KhoeSan: African ancestry is tied to ecogeography |
| Geography and ecology are key factors that have influenced the genetic makeup of human groups in southern Africa, according to new research discussed in GENETICS. |
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| Members In the News |
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| Congratulations to GSA members Maitreya Dunham, Amy Gladfelter, Colleen Murphy, Samara Reck-Peterson, Francesca Storici, and Feng Zhang on becoming HHMI Faculty Scholars. |
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| Aneil Agrawal, Evolutionary geneticist, GSA member, and (eventual) GENETICS author, has been named by Science News as one of ten "Scientists to Watch." |
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| Education & Professional Development |
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| Applications are now open for the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science, which recognizes early-career scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science activities. |
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| Policy |
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| AAAS is accepting applications for the 2017-18 Science & Technology Policy Fellowships. |
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Funding, Fellowships, and Awards
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| Applications are open for a new HHMI program to increase diversity in the biomedical research community. The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program provides postdoctoral funding for individuals from groups underrepresented in the life sciences. |
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| News Around the Web |
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| Facebook couple commits $3 billion to cure disease Read More |
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| The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing Read More |
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| Is science only for the rich? Read More |
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| College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science Read More |
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Looking for a job, or have one to offer? GeneticsCareers.org provides free job listings across the breadth of genetics—from academic, government, and industry positions to postdoctoral opportunities and much more. |
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| Deadline for next issue: October 7, 2016. Send items (and feedback) to Cristy Gelling, cgelling@thegsajournals.org. |
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