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| 2018 GSA memberships expire December 31 |
Don’t forget to renew your GSA membership by December 31! You can also sign up for convenient automatic renewal. As a member, you support GSA’s work on behalf of our communities, including advocating for effective policies and funding, providing professional development programs, and connecting researchers across career stages and disciplines.
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| Thank you 2018 donors! |
GSA is grateful for the support of all its members, but we would like to give special acknowledgment to those who made additional donations toward our activities in 2018.
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| GSA Meetings |
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| Still time to submit #Dros19 poster abstracts |
Reconnect with the fly community! Poster abstracts for the 60th Annual Drosophila Research Conference are due by December 31.
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| Don’t miss out on #Fungal19 |
Don’t wait for the last minute to register for the 30th Fungal Genetics Conference! Registration numbers at this popular conference are strictly limited by the venue.
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| Larry Sandler nominations due FRIDAY |
Nominations for the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture close on December 21. Any student completing a PhD in an area of Drosophila research between July 2017 and December 2018 is eligible for nomination.
» conferences.genetics-gsa.org |
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| Journals |
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| Evolutionary virology at 40 |
Two different approaches to studying virus evolution—the comparative and the experimental—were both established in seminal papers published in the late 1970s and have run in parallel, often antagonistically, since then. Geoghegan and Holmes show how these two approaches may be resolved within an evolutionary genetic framework with the transformative data produced by next-generation sequencing and metagenomics.
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| Students and Postdocs |
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| Organize a Career Development Symposium |
GSA offers funding for student and postdoc members to organize local symposia that provide career and professional development opportunities for early career scientists. Examples could include career skills symposia, networking events, and scientific symposia with substantial opportunities for student and postdoc presenters. Applications are due January 10.
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| Apply for a L’Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship |
Applications for the L’Oréal USA For Women in Science postdoctoral fellowships are due by February 1. The deadline for other National and Regional L’Oréal Foundation fellowships varies by country, learn more at the link below.
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| Faculty, Educators, & Mentors |
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| Enhance your interdisciplinary and team science skills |
The American Institute of Biological Sciences, a GSA partner organization, is offering a two-day course to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of scientific teams. The program will be held on January 14–15, 2019 in Washington DC.
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| Policy |
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| AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship: An Inside View of Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowships |
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships give scientists and engineers the opportunity to apply their knowledge and analytical skills to the policymaking process in all three branches of the US government. Learn more about legislative branch fellowships in this interview from the Early Career Scientist Policy Subcommittee’s fellowship series.
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| Community Announcements |
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| NSF seeks community input on fundamental biological research |
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) seeks ideas from the community on fundamental biological research questions and topics that are poised for major advances. Ideally these ideas would span multiple levels of organization in living systems and require expertise from diverse biological subdisciplines. This is a call, not for research proposals, but for high-level ideas. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2019.
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| UPCOMING DEADLINES |
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Larry Sandler Award Applications
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Career Development Symposia Proposals
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#Dros19 Early Registration Deadline
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GENETICS Peer Review Training Program Applications
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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: complex genetics of heart disease and regeneration
Med Univ South Carolina
Head, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chief, Communications and Public Liaison
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
Faculty position, plant resilience
Michigan State University
Young investigator position, Department of Plant Biology Carnegie Institution of Washington
Data Validation Scientist
Ancestry
PhD student: heart development using Drosophila genetics and human stem cells
Indiana State University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology (Molecular)
Whitworth University
Postdoc: genetic compensation in yeast
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research |
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