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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.   Clement Chow Assistant Professor Department of Human Genetics University of Utah School of Medicine Lab website Personal Twitter:  @ClementYChow Lab Twitter:  @ChowLab   Research program:…

This month, the GSA journal GENETICS published an editorial that illuminates the struggles experienced by scientists when trying to both do good science and advance in their career, especially as it relates to the unintended effects of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The editorial by Executive Editor Tracey DePellegrin and Editor-in-Chief Mark Johnston is largely intended 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.   Zeba Wunderlich Assistant Professor Department of Developmental and Cell Biology University of California, Irvine Lab website   Research program: The Wunderlich Lab uses a combination…

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.   Jagan Srinivasan Assistant Professor (since 2012) Department of Biology & Biotechnology Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lab website   Research program: Social species form organizations that…

Publishing research in one of the GSA Journals as an undergraduate is a significant and valuable authorship experience and we want to hear your story (even if it was published years ago!). GSA’s Spotlight on Undergraduate Research showcases GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics authors who were undergraduates when contributing to their paper. Sarah Radford Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University…

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.   Meleah Hickman Assistant Professor, Department of Biology (since 2014) Emory University Lab website @meleahhickman   Research program: My lab investigates how eukaryotic pathogens generate…

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. Elizabeth Ables Assistant Professor of Biology (since 2013) East Carolina University Lab website   Research program: Tissue-resident stem cells are a special population of cells…

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. Randal Halfmann Assistant Investigator Stowers Institute for Medical Research Lab website   Research program: We aim to discover new prions and explore how these remarkable…

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.   Annalise Paaby Assistant Professor, School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology   Research program: My lab explores major questions in evolution and quantitative genetics.…

This guest post is contributed by GSA member Jeremy Yoder of the University of British Columbia. (More about this author)   Scientific workplaces are not particularly diverse. The underrepresentation of women and people of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has become a field of study in itself, with experimental and observational data…

This is the first in a series of profiles of 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. Krista Dobi Assistant Professor, Natural Sciences Department Baruch College, City University of New York Research program: My lab uses…