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| Society News |
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| #PEQG18 T-shirt design contest |
Show your creative side and inspire the population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics community by entering the #PEQG18 T-shirt design contest!
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| GSA Meetings |
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| Preview the #Dros18 Keynote and Plenary Talks |
Check out the topics covered by the fantastic lineup of invited speakers at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Philadelphia this week!
» genestogenomes.org |
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| #PEQG18 hotel reservations due next week |
Be sure to book your hotel room for the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference before the deadline on April 17.
» conferences.genetics-gsa.org |
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| Submit your #Xenopus18 abstracts now |
Abstract submission is open for the 17th International Xenopus Conference, which will be held in Seattle, WA, August 12–16. Abstracts are due by May 3.
» conferences.genetics-gsa.org |
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| #Yeast18 abstracts open |
Abstract submission is open for the 2018 Yeast Genetics Meeting, which will be held in Stanford, CA, August 22–26. Abstracts are due by May 17.
» conferences.genetics-gsa.org |
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| Don’t forget to register for #Ciliate18 |
Register now for the 2018 Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference, which will be held July 17–22 in Washington, DC.
» conferences.genetics-gsa.org |
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| Journals |
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| Heights and pitfalls in detecting polygenic adaptation |
Identifying signatures of polygenic adaptation in humans is getting easier—but a commentary by GENETICS editors John Novembre and Nick Barton calls for caution in drawing conclusions.
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| A new role for a signpost on the chromatin landscape |
New data suggests monomethylated H3K27 is more than just an intermediate.
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| Mathematical matryoshka: unscrambling Russian doll genes in ciliates |
Elaborate genome rearrangements in ciliates take gene nesting to the extreme.
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| Students and Postdocs |
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| Early Career Leadership Spotlight — Joseph Tolsma |
Joseph Tolsma studies variation in estrogen responses using mouse models and wants to inspire kids to fall in love with research.
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| Early Career Leader updates |
Updates from GSA’s Early Career Leaders: Caitlin McDonough, chair of the Career Development Subcommittee has received a P.E.O. Scholar Award given by the International Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. Alexandra Erwin, Steering Committee Co-Chair, and Thomas Clements, Policy Subcommittee member, have defended their PhD theses. Congratulations! Learn more about the Early Career Scientist Leadership and Professional Development program at the link.
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| Faculty, Educators, & Mentors |
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| Why Ciliates? Making a video introduction to a model organism |
Model organism researchers face shared challenges in communicating the value of their work. We talked to the makers of the 6-minute video “Why Ciliates?” to learn more about how they made the video and the challenges they faced.
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| Policy |
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| March for Science this weekend |
In 2017, more than a million people joined the March for Science. This Saturday April 14, the March for Science will hold a day of action. City organizers around the world have planned everything from expos to festivals, marches to rallies, with the goal of holding elected and appointed officials responsible for enacting equitable evidence-based policies that serve all communities and science for the common good.
» marchforscience.com |
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| Community Announcements |
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| New FlyBase fee |
The NHGRI is significantly reducing the funding of FlyBase, normalized to 20% this year and 30% onwards. With these cuts, they will not be able to deliver high quality, essential curation and tools. FlyBase is calling on users to help by implementing a scaled FlyBase website access fee per person / per year.
» flybase.org |
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| A Remembrance: Dr. Kathleen A. Matthews, The Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center and FlyBase |
Thom Kaufman (Indiana University) remembers the enormous contributions of Kathy Matthews to two vital institutions in fruit fly research: the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center and FlyBase.
» genestogenomes.org |
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| Fly community data on commercial antibodies |
Bing Zhang (University of Missouri) has started a community effort to collect information on commercially-available antibodies used by fruit fly researchers. You can add your own entries to help other fly labs around the world.
» docs.google.com |
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| Members in the News |
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| Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Awards |
Congratulations to GSA Board member, GENETICS Associate Editor, and #PEQG18 co-organizer Matthew Hahn (Indiana University) for receiving the 2018 SMBE Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award. Congratulations also to GSA member Melissa Wilson Sayres (Arizona State University) for receiving the 2018 SMBE Allan Wilson Junior Award for Independent research.
» smbe.org |
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| Antonis Rokas awarded Guggenheim Fellowship |
Congratulations to G3 Associate Editor Antonis Rokas (Vanderbilt University) for receiving one of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships. Rokas will be writing a book to introduce fungi and their amazing lifestyles to both biologists and the public.
» gf.org |
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| GeneticsCareers.org |
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| GeneticsCareers.org is free to use for both jobseekers and employers. A simple registration process provides access to a broad range of job listings in academia, government, and industry, as well as postdoctoral opportunities and more. |
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Postdoc: polygenic basis of congenital heart defects
University of California, Irvine - Center for Complex Biological Systems
Director of Statistical Genetics
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc
Postdoc: human population genetics
University of Toronto
Tenure Track Positions - Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Alberta
Postdoc: Statistical and/or Translational Genomics
University of Helsinki
Assistant Researcher in Drosophila Genetics
University of Kansas
Associate or Full Professor in Genomics
Monash University
Managing Director, DNA Sequencing & Microarray Core
University of Michigan
Laboratory Scientist - Molecular Genetics
Connective Tissue Gene Tests |
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