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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…

The GSA E&I Committee provides an update on their recent activities.

The Awards Audit Task Force describes their findings and outlines the future of the GSA Awards.

Carla Bautista Rodriguez is a PhD candidate in evolutionary biology at Laval University (Canada) and a member of the Genetics Society of America. She is also passionate about outreach and scientific communication. She is an active member of various American and Spanish societies that are dedicated to bringing science to the general public. The GSA…

Three new editors are joining GSA journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Arash Bashirullah, Noah Whiteman, and Yun Li to their roles as Senior Advisory Editor for GENETICS, Genome Report Senior Editor for G3, and Associate Editor for GENETICS, respectively. Arash Bashirullah Senior Advisory Editor, GENETICS Dr. Arash Bashirullah is a Professor…

The Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce that Lauren McIntyre of the University of Florida will become the next Editor in Chief of G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics beginning in January 2023.

Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the Yeast Genetics Meeting 2022! Undergraduate  Austin Lytle, Morehead State University Poster Title: Genetically engineering a strain of S. cerevisiae with a single circular chromosome “Using our experimental approach, I successfully circularized Ch. II in S. ceraviseae and current analysis shows no phenotypic differences between the…

We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 31st Fungal Genetics Conference! Congratulations to all! Jorge Lightfoot, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center   Fungal hypoxia adaptation is critical for the establishment of keratitis vayu maini rekdal, UC Berkeley CRISPR-Cas9 engineering of A. oryzae for meat-like flavor and appearance Amber Matha,…

Ever since Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection in 1858, biologists have been pondering exactly how selection works, somehow driving the evolution from single-celled life to the wide array of complex vertebrates that now populate the planet. As advances in technology have enabled genomic mapping at increasingly finer resolution, the questions have only…

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…

Harmit Malik loves conflict—genetic conflict, that is. “I’m really interested in this idea that components of the same genome, or components of different genomes, are constantly doing battle with each other,” says Malik, who heads a lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. To understand genetic conflict, Malik focuses on the parts of the…