2019 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award Winners Announced

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) and The Gruber Foundation are pleased to announce Molly Schumer, PhD, of Stanford University; and Bérénice Benayoun, PhD, of the University of Southern California as the 2019 recipients of the Rosalind...
10-Oct-2019 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Genetics Society of America Awards 2019 GSA Medal to Anne Villeneuve

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that Anne Villeneuve, PhD, of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America Medal. Villeneuve is recognized for her research on the mechanisms governing...
9-May-2019 10:50 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Genetics Society of America Awards 2019 George W. Beadle Award to Michael Snyder

Michael Snyder, PhD, of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America (GSA) George W. Beadle Award for developing and disseminating widely-used technology for the simultaneous analysis of thousands of genes, RNA...
2-Apr-2019 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Genetics Society of America Awards 2019 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal to Daniel Hartl

Daniel Hartl, PhD, of Harvard University is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America (GSA) Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for his influential contributions to experimental and theoretical genetics research.
21-Mar-2019 12:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Genetics Society of America Grants 2019 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education to Bruce Weir

Bruce Weir, PhD, of the University of Washington in Seattle is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America (GSA) Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education, in recognition of his work training thousands of researchers in the...
7-Mar-2019 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Does Candida grow on trees?

Around 40-60% of healthy adults carry around the fungus Candida albicans in their mouth or guts; in immunocompromised people, however, this normally harmless cohabitant becomes a deadly pathogen. A report in the journal GENETICS describes the...
27-Feb-2019 4:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Family tree of 400 million people shows genetics has limited influence on longevity

Genetics has far less influence on life span than previously thought, according to a new analysis of more than 400 million people. The results suggest the heritability of life span is well below past estimates, which didn’t account for our...
1-Nov-2018 12:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

What inspired Mendel?

Newly uncovered newspaper articles shed light on Mendel’s motivations.
8-Oct-2018 4:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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