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The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the newly appointed leaders of our Early Career Scientist Steering Committee. The committee is charged with understanding the interests, concerns, and challenges of early career scientist members of the GSA. As part of this leadership and professional development program, appointees will explore current policies and…

On Earth Day, April 22, 2017, scientists and other community members across the world will be assembling in a public display of support for science. The March for Science is a non-partisan rally and teach-in to be held in Washington, DC, along with a network of affiliated events taking place at more than 300 locations worldwide.…

Transparent research starts with an unambiguous parts list. To help promote the wider use of identifiers and recognized symbols in biological research, FlyBase (with input from other model organism databases) is developing a resource for tracking and reporting reagents in a more standardized way, aiding curation into research databases. The GSA journals are now encouraging…

GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award. This award, which honors the memory of Victoria Finnerty, supports travel costs for undergraduates engaged in research to attend the 58th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Congratulations, undergrads! We’ll see you in San Diego. James Cevallos, University of California, Los Angeles “My work uses…

Check out the February issue of G3! Table of Contents Genome Report Genome Report: Identification and Validation of Antigenic Proteins from Pajaroellobacter abortibovis Using De Novo Genome Sequence Assembly and Reverse Vaccinology Bryan T. Welly, Michael R. Miller, Jeffrey L. Stott, Myra T. Blanchard, Alma D. Islas-Trejo, Sean M. O’Rourke, Amy E. Young, Juan F.…

Check out the February issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Feeding-related traits are affected by dosage of the foraging gene in Drosophila melanogaster, pp. 761-773 Aaron M. Allen, Ina Anreiter, Megan C. Neville, and Marla B. Sokolowski The foraging gene has been implicated in multiple feeding-related traits. Allen…

UPDATE, July 10, 2018 After more than a year of legal battles, the most recent version of the travel ban has been upheld by the Supreme Court. We wish to reiterate our previous statement, underlining the extent to which such restrictive policies not only harm the scientific community, but the technological and societal progress that…

We are proud to support three new symposia organized by student and postdoctoral members of the GSA! Read more below about the recipients of the fall 2016 round of funding from the GSA Trainee-Organized Symposia program. Proposed workshops were evaluated by the Society’s Mentoring and Professional Development Committee based on their relevance to the GSA mission, the need for and the uniqueness…

GSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Spring 2017. The award is given twice a year to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to support attendance at meetings and laboratory courses. The award is named in honor of DeLill Nasser, a long-time GSA supporter and National Science…

Don’t miss out on this year’s Annual Drosophila Research Conference: The late abstract deadline is January 23, 2017 and the early registration discount ends February 3, 2017. Check out the fantastic lineup of invited speakers below! More details of the conference are available here, including details of special events like the PI Early Career Forum,…

The GSA Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Jeannie T. Lee (HHMI/Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital) has been appointed GSA Vice-President. Last year, Barbara J. Meyer (HHMI/University of California, Berkeley) was elected the 2017 Vice-President and 2018 President of the GSA Board of Directors. Unfortunately, Meyer will no longer be able to take on…