GSA e-News: Register for the GSA Early Career Medal award seminar; learn about accessibility for grad students and postdocs; watch the latest from GSA on YouTube

In this workshop organized by the Early Career Scientist Accessibility Subcommittee, panelists Bonnie Jacob, Victoria Popov, Thomas Merritt, and Konan Blaise Koko explore gaps in the postgraduate pipeline of academia for disabled scientists and how we can better mentor and support them through the undergraduate to graduate transition and graduate experience, including with matters surrounding outreach, recruitment, and retention.
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Beyond replication: how does parental age affect de novo mutation rates?
New work in GENETICS finds that maternal age at conception can also contribute to de novo mutation rates—not just paternal age, as commonly thought.
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Block party on the zebrafish sex chromosome
Research in G3 identifies a gene regulatory block of the zebrafish genome responsible for overseeing the maternal-to-zygotic-transition.

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New Senior Editor Amy MacQueen joins GENETICS
A new senior editor is joining GENETICS in the Genome Integrity and Transmission section. We’re excited to welcome Amy MacQueen to the editorial team.
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Is your lab or organization hiring? The GSA Job Board is an excellent place to connect with top talent in our scientific community. GSA members qualify for a discounted rate to post job openings and can post student and postdoc positions at no cost.

Check out some of the latest postings on the GSA Job Board:

Director | Institute for Precision Health, University of California, Irvine | Irvine, CA

Assistant Professor | Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University | Evanston, IL

Plant Geneticist | Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture | Urbana, IL

Senior Bioinformatics Engineer | Simons Foundation | New York, NY

Assistant Professor | Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University | Pullman, WA

Research Facility Director and Professor | Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln, NE

We welcome submissions to both the GSA e-News (sent to all GSA members) and the Early Career Scientist Weekly (sent to student and postdoc GSA members). Items for the ECS Weekly include resources, awards, fellowships, grants, courses, and other opportunities applicable to early career scientists. News about GSA members includes new positions, book or op-ed publication, awards received, achievements, obits and others. We also invite other announcements relevant to GSA members, such as award nominations, new grant programs, etc.