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| Congratulations to the Spring 2019 winners of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics! |
The DeLill Nasser Award provides students and postdocs funding to attend conferences and courses. This cycle’s winners are making strides in a wide range of research topics, including how homologous chromosomes pair during meiosis, the evolutionary consequences of sexual selection and sexual conflict, and more.
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| The challenges of Plan S for scientific societies |
GSA Executive Director Tracey DePellegrin and GENETICS Editor in Chief Mark Johnston were quoted in a news article in Science on the impact of Plan S on scientific societies. Plan S is a proposal by several, primarily-European, research funders to require that grantees publish their work in open-access only journals or platforms.
» sciencemag.org |
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| GSA Meetings |
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| The deadline for #Dros19 Late Abstract Submissions is Friday |
There’s still time to submit your late abstracts for the 60th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, but act fast! The February 1 deadline is just around the corner.
» genetics-gsa.org |
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| Register for the GENETICS Peer Review Training workshop at #Fungal19 |
This workshop will provide an introduction to peer reviewing, including information on best practices and a mock review. Becoming a better reviewer will help you to become a better author and to hone some of the skills central to scientific success. Attendance is limited, so don’t wait to register!
» conferences.genetics-gsa.org |
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| Sign up for the New Faculty Forum at #Dros19 |
At this one-day workshop designed for new faculty (those within the first five years of their appointment) and advanced postdocs, attendees will discuss common challenges, hear strategies for managing a laboratory, and more. Don’t miss a chance to collaborate, commiserate, and celebrate with a strong network or peers long after the fly meeting ends.
» conferences.genetics-gsa.org |
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| Journals |
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| Activate your GENETICS subscription |
Visit http://www.genetics-gsa.org/membership/ to become a GSA member and obtain your individual subscription to GENETICS. Just subscribed and don’t have access to GENETICS? Visit http://admincenter.genetics-gsa.org/cgi/activate/basic and enter the ID from your GSA membership letter to activate your subscription. For questions or assistance, email genetics-gsa@thegsajournals.org.
» genetics-gsa.org |
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| Loaded words |
Guest author Amir Teicher discusses how the concept of “genetic load” traces its roots back to eugenic thinking, as described in his recent Perspectives article in GENETICS.
» genestogenomes.org |
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| How the fat body regulates fly sleep |
The gene Ade2 links metabolism and sleep in the fat bodies of Drosophila.
» genestogenomes.org |
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| Students and Postdocs |
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| Apply for the Peer Review Training Program by February 14 |
This unique program provides training in manuscript reviewing and real-world experience as a peer reviewer.
» genetics-gsa.org |
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| Faculty, Educators, & Mentors |
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| PALM applications are due today |
The Promoting Active Learning and Mentoring (PALM) Network helps instructors put active learning into practice in their undergraduate courses. Sound interesting? Apply today to become a PALM Mentor or Fellow.
» palm.ascb.org |
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| Policy |
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| Hibernating Squirrels and the Government Shutdown |
In her opinion piece in Scientific American, FASEB President-elect Hannah Carey writes, “In my lab and many others, even a temporary loss of funding puts time-sensitive research in peril.”
» scientificamerican.com |
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| End of US shutdown won’t mean return to business as usual for research agencies |
Science reports on the triage process underway at reopened US federal research agencies.
» sciencemag.org |
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| UPCOMING DEADLINES |
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Late Abstract Submissions for #Dros19
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GENETICS Peer Review Training Program Applications
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Hotel Reservation deadline for #Dros19
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Abstract Submissions for #Worm19
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DeLill Nasser Award 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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Intern: Volunteer Lemur monitoring & Reforestation project
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium
Senior Scientist
Helen Ziegler & Associates, Inc
Assistant/Associate Professor - Academic Clinician Track, Division of Genomic Diagnostics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Genetics Counselor, Perinatal Center
Upstate Medical University
Postdoc: Oncogenic Signals and Chromosome Biology
University of California, Davis
Senior Scientist, Biomarker Signatures
Johnson & Johnson
Postdoc: Bioinformatics, Fungal Genomics and Transcriptomics
University of California, Davis
Scientist, Research & Development
Good Start Genetics, Inc
Molecular Genetics Lab Director
University of Mississippi Medical Center |
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