Community Voices

Get to know the TAGC 2020 Keynote Speakers through our interview series. Sarah (Sally) Otto is known for her theoretical studies of how biological systems evolve. Otto investigates the selective forces acting on genetic systems (recombination, ploidy level, gene duplications) and mating systems (sexual vs asexual reproduction, sexual selection, floral reproductive strategies). Complementing this approach,…

Get to know the TAGC 2020 Keynote Speakers through our interview series. Alex Schier obtained his PhD in Walter Gehring’s lab at the Biozentrum Basel. He spent his postdoc in Wolfgang Driever’s lab at Harvard, where he screened for and characterized mutants affecting zebrafish development. He started his lab in 1996 at the Skirball Institute…

Increasing support for parents in science means making conferences more child-friendly. Guest post by Elisabeth Marnik and Julie Claycomb, members of the GSA Conference Childcare Committee. The scientific community works on the cutting edge. We implement new techniques and methods as soon as we can with the understanding that—though there may be challenges along the…

Get to know the TAGC 2020 Keynote Speakers through our interview series. Caroline Dean has been a project leader at the John Innes Centre Norwich since 1988. Her work on seasonal timing mechanisms in plants has led into a detailed mechanistic analysis of the regulation of the floral repressor FLC in Arabidopsis. FLC transcription is…

We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Mahlon Collins Communications & Outreach Subcommittee Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development; University of Minnesota Research Interest I study protein degradation,…

New Faculty Profiles allow GSA members who are establishing their first labs to introduce themselves to our wider community. If you’d like to submit your profile, please complete this form. Wolfgang Keil Tenured CNRS researcher (CR) and Group Leader Physics and Physical Chemistry Department Institut Curie, Paris, France Lab website   Briefly describe the ongoing and expected research…

We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Adelita D. Mendoza Communications & Outreach Subcommittee Postdoc Associate, Washington University Research Interest All cells require intracellular zinc to perform functions ranging…

We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Gavin Rice Co-chair Early Career Scientist Steering Committee University of Pittsburgh Research Interest Evolution has created diverse forms of life across this…

We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our 2019 early career scientist advocates. Anna Bajur Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics King’s College London Communications and Outreach Subcommittee Research Interest I’m interested…

The Genetics Society of America is committed to increasing support for parents and caregivers who attend our conferences. As the Conference Childcare Committee, we’re asking for input from parents and caregivers in the community so that we can best meet your needs. This short survey should take less than ten minutes of your time, and…

Guest post by Susan Gerbi, George Eggleston Professor of Biochemistry and professor of biology at Brown University, and Virginia A. Zakian, Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences in the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University. Patricia J. Pukkila September 28, 1948 – June 20, 2019 Dr. Patricia J. Pukkila passed away on June…