Recognize outstanding scientists doing research in genetics with the Society's highest honors, the GSA Awards 🏆 bit.ly/2p3wTCb 🚨 The GSA Mentorship Award is a brand 🆕 award recognizing excellence in contributions to the mentorship of geneticists. 1/2 🧵

Today we welcome more than 100 new students to the Graduate School. We look forward to seeing where their journeys will take them. #WeAreGSBS #orientation2024

I encourage you all to submit manuscripts to Biology Open. Transparent and uncomplicated!

Huge congratulations to all my MD Anderson Cancer Center colleagues who are funded by CPRIT today. From high risk high reward awards (Wen Jiang MD, PhD) all the way to advanced spatial genomics core facility (Nicholas Navin) & everything in between! 🙌🏽 cprit.texas.gov/news-events/ar…

This month, Development has published interviews with all our 2024 PI fellows - a fantastic set of postdocs going on the job market this year. You can find out more about them all via this page: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pife…. Do take a look if you're hiring!

If you're attending the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology meeting this weekend & have any questions about NSF funding opportunities for dev bio research, come & find me! Happy to talk about your research & its potential for finding a home within NSF. scdb2024.sites.ucsc.edu

GSA has unveiled a brand-new award 🆕 📣 Do you know a scientist, colleague, or mentor who has made impactful contributions to the mentorship of other geneticists at any career stage? Nominate them for the Genetics Society of America Mentorship Award: bit.ly/3WVbgjN

Victor Ambros and Daniel Cifuentes have made clear the importance of research in model organisms, like C.elegans 🪱 or zebrafish 🐟, to understand human disease 👏👏

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Marcella Birtele Marcella Birtele, one of our PI Fellows, talks about how the research questions she hopes to address with her own lab will bridge her previous neurodegeneration and neural development studies: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

The ECLP program is SUCH a great way for grad students & postdocs to get prof development - beef up your ability to collaborate, communicate, plan, & wrangle 💪all while serving the wider Genetics Society of America community! Hear my friend Joanna Wardwell-Ozgo, PhD talk about other benefits as a new PI:

A bittersweet moment when students graduate and are ready for the next phase, I am so proud, yet will miss them. Jacob starts his postdoc with Josh Mendell at UTSW, after a successful completion of his PhD. Janet finishes her MS and waits to start in Industry.#lovemylab

Exciting opportunity for open tenure track positions in Developmental Biology & Stem Cell Biology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (see Ad - go.nature.com/3yOv8gx). Deadline for applications is October 14, 2024 (facultysearch.ski.edu)

Don’t forget to come along to #DevPres this coming Wednesday - it’s all about the heart this month.

On 9/19/24, IOS is holding a virtual office hour on the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)!  Please share w/ later stage grad students & new postdocs. All are encouraged to attend this VOH to learn about the PRFB program. iosblog.nsfbio.com/2024/09/04/don…

Our lab is growing! Please see below and share - recruiting at all levels!

We ran our Transgenic Mouse 🐭 hands-on workshop w/1st yr grad students in ⁦MD Anderson-UTH Grad⁩ Core Course. They generated founders/lines for gene construct they created to test for expression/phenotype. Hectic, interactive, &🤞🏼learning. ⁦Genetics Society of America⁩ ⁦Society for Developmental Biology⁩

The Biology Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring (again!). We have TWO TT faculty positions: Developmental Cell Biology and Plant Biology. Please share and apply! careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/5246… careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/5246… umass.edu/biology/

NEW GSA Award Announcement📣 The Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture will recognize an early career scientist for outstanding achievements in genetics as applied to neuroscience in Drosophila. Submit a nomination: bit.ly/3Xruqhs 1/2🧵

It was really great chatting with Margarete (Margarete Diaz Cuadros). The more junior PIs I interview, the more confident I feel that the future of #devbio is in good hands - Margarete is no exception!

Thank you, Orna ⁦Orna Cohen-Fix⁩, Geraldine ⁦Seydoux Lab⁩, Kevin (O Connell), and Dave (Eisenmann) for organizing the wonderful symposium in honor of Andy Golden. Andy was an incredible scientist, mentor, and friend, who will always walk with me. #BeLikeAndy