Genetics Society of America
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GSA conferences foster collaboration, resource development, and the spread of technology and ideas.
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Our peer-reviewed journals GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics publish high-quality, original genetics research across the breadth of the field.
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GSA professional development programs provide rich opportunities for scientists to gain skills and experience.
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Watch lectures from our award winners.
GSA is pleased to announce a series of online lectures by 2021 GSA Award recipients. Join us in April and May for these stimulating talks!
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Build public dialogue around genetics.
GSA and the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) are pleased to announce a new partnership to build public dialogue about genetic technologies. Their joint program aims to better equip scientists to engage in discussions about genetics with all communities, with special emphasis on those who have been marginalized, economically disadvantaged, or otherwise excluded from conversations about science.
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Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Oindrila De
Oindrila De Career Development Subcommittee Case Western Reserve University Graduate Student Research interest I’m fascinated by how cells grow, change their shape, attain specialized functions, organize themselves into tissues, and form a complete organism. This basic biological process that gives rise to the adult shape is known as “morphogenesis.” Adhesive proteins that act as a […]
How to talk to family and friends about COVID-19 vaccines
Quick tips for making vaccine science understandable to non-scientists. Guest post by Elisabeth Marnik, Ph.D. It’s been more than a year since the world started shutting down in the wake of widespread COVID-19 cases. We are still living through a pandemic, but the United States is finally starting to see a light at the end […]
Strawberry detectives retrace family roots
Geneticists dig up the dirt on 300 years of succulence. When Steve Knapp started his new job at the University of California, Davis, he plunged into a forensic mystery that would take years to unravel. He wasn’t hunting a criminal or identifying a missing person, but the challenge before him was just as formidable: reconstructing […]
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It was critical that GSA was so willing to put their faith in us. Many people didn’t initially have a lot of confidence that a group of postdocs could organize a new event of this scale.
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