Articles tagged Academic Careers
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New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Josefa Steinhauer Assistant Professor of Biology Yeshiva University Lab website   Research program: We are interested in lipid-mediated signaling in Drosophila. Phospholipids usually play structural…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Santhosh Girirajan Assistant Professor (since 2012) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department of Anthropology The Pennsylvania State University Lab website Twitter: @GirirajanLab   Research program:…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Mike Downey Assistant Professor (Since November 2014) Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of Ottawa Lab website Twitter: @DowneyUOttawa   Research program: Our lab studies protein…

Considering my career as a whole, I have had a major role in three hugely creative experiments. It might be instructive to examine the features common to the three. They were all carried out when I was relatively young and my title was assistant professor. They all occurred when I had relatively little funding. Perhaps…

In preparation for The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), set to take place in Orlando this July, Genes to Genomes is getting the inside scoop from many of the outstanding keynote speakers in our “Behind the Podium” series. In the first of a series of interviews, GSA graduate member Elisabeth Bauerly catches up with Drosophila researcher…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Xantha Karp Assistant Professor of Biology Central Michigan University Lab website   Research program: During aging, stem cells gradually become less effective at renewing tissue,…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Erik Andersen Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences (Since 2013) Northwestern University Lab website Personal Twitter: @ecandersen   Research program: My lab has broad interests…

GSA member Krista Dobi, new faculty and former Trainee Advisory Representative to the GSA Board of Directors, tells Genes to Genomes about the importance of an Individual Development Plan (IDP). January: a time to consider resolutions for the upcoming calendar year. Since it’s the midpoint of the academic year, it’s also a great time to assess…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Irene Chiolo Gabilan Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences University of Southern California Lab website   Research program: We study the mechanisms of DNA repair…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Jared Nordman Assistant Professor (Since 2015) Department of Biological Sciences Vanderbilt University Lab website   Research program: Regulation of genome duplication requires exquisite control to…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Peter Stirling Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratories Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Lab website   Research program: My lab is using functional genomics, molecular biology,…