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#DROS18 GSA Poster Award winners
We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference! Undergraduate and graduate student members of the GSA were eligible for the awards, and a hard-working team of postdocs volunteered their time as judges. Congratulations to all! Undergraduate Students 1st Place: Elizabeth Hemenway Institution: University of Missouri-Kansas City Poster Title: The Surprising composition of…
Kelley Harris: Give students the freedom to choose
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New Faculty Profile: David Matus
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. David Matus Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (since 2014) Stony Brook University Lab website Briefly describe the ongoing and expected…
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Yaihara Fortis Santiago on addressing the diverse needs of early career scientists
Yaihara Fortis Santiago, Manager of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses her journey from Puerto Rico to discovering a fulfilling career helping early career scientists advance their scientific training and helping them foster cross-institutional relationships. In the Decoding Life series, we talk to geneticists with diverse career paths, tracing the many…
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Amey Redkar
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 early career scientist advocates. Amey Redkar Communication and Outreach Subcommittee The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK Research Interest Plant pathogens have a…
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New in G3: Daphnia genome assembly, mouse craniofacial shape, and Drosophila spermathecal cell fates
Check out the May issue of G3! Table of Contents Investigations Accurate Classification of Protein Subcellular Localization from High-Throughput Microscopy Images Using Deep Learning Tanel Pärnamaa, Leopold Parts G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics May 2017 7: 1385-1392; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.033654 Genotype Calling from Population-Genomic Sequencing Data Takahiro Maruki, Michael Lynch G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics May 2017 7:…
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New in G3: unstable inheritance, chromosomal translocation, and meiotic silencing
Check out the April issue of G3! Table of Contents Mutant Screen Report Identification of Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that Are Haploinsufficient for Overcoming Amino Acid Starvation Nancy S. Bae, Andrew P. Seberg, Leslie P. Carroll, Mark J. Swanson G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics April 2017 7: 1061-1084; https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.037416 Investigations A Whole-Transcriptome Approach to Evaluating Reference…
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Sally G. Hoskins is awarded the 2017 Elizabeth W. Jones Award
We are pleased to announce that Sally G. Hoskins, PhD is the 2017 recipient of the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education. This award recognizes her role in developing and promoting the transformative CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, and Think of the next Experiment) method. This innovative approach uses primary…