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The GSA is pleased to announce
that its open-access journal
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, launched in June 2011, is
now indexed in
PubMed. In compliance with NIH Public Access Policy,
all G3 articles are freely available at
PubMed Central.
Upcoming
Deadlines
The GSA
Model Organisms to Human Biology - Cancer Genetics
abstract deadline is Thursday, March 29, 2012.
The meeting, June 17-20 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in
Washington, DC, promises to be an outstanding opportunity for basic research scientists studying questions relevant to cancer in model organisms to interact with those researching cancer in humans. In addition to keynote addresses by Burt Vogelstein, Eric S. Lander and Angelika Amon, the directors of two NIH institutes will address participants: Chris A. Kaiser of NIGMS and Eric Green of NHGRI.
The
10th International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics
abstract submission deadline is Thursday, March 29, 2012. The conference is
June 20-24, 2012 at the University of
Wisconsin - Madison.
Nominations for the
Chi-Bin Chien Award for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows or
new faculty who will be attending the Zebrafish Conference are being accepted until
April 1, 2012. Donations to the
Chi-Bin Chien Award fund
are also encouraged to ensure that the award is sustainable.
Applications for the
2012 DeLill Nasser Awards for Professional Development in Genetics will be accepted until
Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Graduate students
and postdoctoral researchers may apply for this
travel award to attend any national or international meeting or to enroll in a laboratory course. Applications are now being accepted to attend meetings or courses
occurring from July 1–December 31, 2012.
Don’t forget: Renew your GSA membership for 2012 if you haven’t already done so! Ask your colleagues to join GSA and receive the membership benefits you now enjoy.
Drosophila Research Conference Roundup
Relive the experience of the 53rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference by liking
GSA’s Facebook
page and following GSA on Twitter (@GeneticsGSA). We’ve posted pictures from the meeting among other resources. Also search the
hashtag #DROS2012 on Twitter for the many, many tweets from the fly community at the meeting.
GSA would also love to hear what you thought about
Drosophila 2012, so if you attended, please complete this brief
survey.
Congratulations to the
recipients of the many awards announced at the conference:
- Larry Sandler Award:
Stephanie Turner Chen (UCSF)
- Victoria Finnerty Awards:
Selma Avdagic (Saint Louis Univ Sch of Med, MO);
Samantha Galindo (Univ of Wisc-Madison);
Kenneth B. Hoehn (Duke); Emily Hsieh (Univ of Wash; FHCRC);
Jacqueline McDermott (Hofstra Univ, NY);
Mohammad Siddiq (Indiana Univ)
- Drosophila Image Awards: Still Image: K. G. Guruharsha
(Harvard). Video Image: S.L. Haigo (UCSF).
- Poster Awards:
First Place: Kathryn Landy (Rutgers);
Jimok Yoon (UT Southwestern Med Ctr);
Young-Jun Kim (NICHD/NIH). Second Place:
Balint Z. Kacsoh (Emory); Quin Shi (UT Southwestern Med Ctr);
Maria Teresa Abreu-Blanco (FHCRC). Third Place:
Mickey Buckingham (Univ of Oxford);
Julie Tan (Univ of Toronto); Rebecca Fox
(Johns Hopkins Univ).
Policy
President Obama
announced last week that he intends to appoint
Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy as the new director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s)
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). NIFA, which was established by Congress in 2008, administers most of USDA’s extramural research funding, including the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). Dr. Ramaswamy has been dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University (OSU) since 2009 and also directs the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. As
an agricultural entomologist, he has studied the reproductive biology of insects and
plant-insect interactions. Dr. Ramaswamy is expected to begin his six-year term at NIFA later this spring.
Awards
Nominations for the
National Medal of Science are now open. Consider nominating deserving members of the genetics community for the nation’s highest honor for scientists.
Nominations are due March 31, 2012.
Other
Meetings of Interest
The next
Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas meeting
will be held June 5-10, 2012 in
Potsdam, Germany. The deadline for
abstract submission and hotel registration is
Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
The 2012 topic meeting on
Aging, Metabolism, Stress, Pathogenesis, and Small RNAs in
C. elegans will be held at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison, July 12-15 2012. Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
The
1st International Conference on Genomics in the Americas will be held
September 27-28, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA at
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The conference theme is “Revolutionizing Medicine and Agriculture through Next-Gen Sequencing and Bioinformatics.”
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