Genetics Society of America
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The Genetics Society of America is a professional scientific society representing genetics researchers and educators globally.
Happy Birthday to Gregor Mendel! His experiments with pea plants laid the foundation for modern genetics, and his discoveries continue to shape research today. Celebrate his legacy with this special #GENETICS article: buff.ly/Dm3soZl
🪰 A new #machinelearning method helps discover and genotype transposable element insertions and deletions from #Drosophila long-read genome assemblies. Learn more about this user-friendly tool developed by @adaigle.bsky.social in #GENETICS 🔗 buff.ly/7f3RUlM
New research in #G3journal: A forward genetics screen using EMS mutagenesis identifies new #Celegans mutants with 'Tail End Defects' in the hermaphrodite phenotype, uncovering new genetic determinants of cellular boundaries. 🪱 🔗 buff.ly/KJl4Q6A
@stschiff.bsky.social and the team present a new statistical model—RAS (Rare Allele Sharing)—that summarizes rare allele frequency correlations, similar to F-statistics but with flexible ascertainment on allele frequencies. Find out more in #G3journal for #rstats package and code 🔗 buff.ly/B6fMnVz
Congratulations to the Spring 2026 recipients of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics! These awards support graduate students and postdoctoral researchers as they advance their careers through conferences, courses, and networking. Meet the recipients: buff.ly/YsX8UYP
Are you considering a faculty career? Join our next #WorkshopWednesdays session, Increasing Transparency in the Academic Job Market, to learn how faculty hiring works in North America. 🗓 Aug. 5, 2026 ⏰ 2–3 p.m. EDT 🔗Register now: buff.ly/hv6TJFK @nafisajadavji.bsky.social
In #GENETICS, Ivan Specht and Julia Palacios present a highly efficient Bayesian inference algorithm for genomic datasets and demonstrate how it can decipher the evolutionary history and past effective population sizes of based on human mitochondrial DNA. 🔗 buff.ly/oHfXzMQ
Latest in #G3journal: A high-throughput image-based phenotyping and #GWAS analysis identifies molecular markers associated with spittlebug response in Urochloa grasses that can be useful for marker-assisted genomic selection in the forage #breeding program. 🔗 buff.ly/dlvytgq
Read the latest research in #G3journal that combines image-based high-throughput #deeplearning phenotyping with genomics tools to accelerate selection of improved pod architecture in mungbean breeding programs across the Midwestern US and globally. 🔗 buff.ly/4U947l6
📢 NEW GENOME ALERT A chromosome-level assembly of ‘Golden Delicious’ doubled-haploid apple tree identifies phenotypic differences associated with fruit size when compared with a different reference genome. 🍎 🍏 Read more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/i8gtaSw
Published in #G3journal: A new atlas of intra- and extracellular sRNA in Coccidioides—a fungal pathogen causing Valley fever in mammals—will serve as a resource for #biomarker discovery and understanding the molecular basis of fungal virulence. 🔗 buff.ly/x1fn3CW
🪱 A new mutant analysis reveals the functions of miRNA-producing small RNA pathway in #Celegans male fertility, sperm production, and gonad morphology. Learn more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/Sc8hDzk
Graduate 🥇 Silvia Durken, University of California, Berkeley 🥈 Faye Romero, University of Rochester 🥉 Lynn Nguyen, University of Kansas 3/3🧵 Photos L-R: Durken, Nguyen, Romero
Undergraduate 🥇 Lyle Given, Stanford University 🥈 Shoshana Elgart, Stanford University 🥉 Carsyn Bonesteel, SUNY University at Buffalo 2/3🧵 Photos L-R: Bonesteel, Given, Elgart
📢 NEW GENOME ALERT In #G3journal, an improved and high-quality assembly of Solanum verrucosum, a wild diploid potato species, presents new genes, transposable elements, and DNA methylation annotations. 🥔 🔗 buff.ly/plqzAyF
New research in #G3journal from @cantulab.bsky.social identifies candidate genes for functional validation that may contribute to Pierce's disease resistance in Vitis arizonica, North American species of wild grape. 🔗 buff.ly/3zkG54B
🌶️ Red hot research in #G3journal A #GWAS paired with an image-based #phenomics tool identifies single-nucleotide polymorphism markers associated with fruit architecture and morphology in chile pepper. 🔗 buff.ly/J36afuX
🚨TODAY, 1:00 p.m. EDT🚨 Don't miss 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble's seminar on the discovery of the first stem cell niche and the genetic mechanisms that regulate stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. 🔗https://buff.ly/Z67hAn9 @uwbiochem.bsky.social
🌾 A detailed characterization of seed morphology and starch structure in the endosperm cavity mutant reveals genetic and structural factors influencing #rice endosperm development, starch biosynthesis, and grain quality. Find out more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/ULouKWN
The July G3 cover shows an artistic representation of image pixels encoded as spatial transcriptomic data. A computational tool, Syrah, processes familiar images as a visual metaphor to illustrate its effects of properly assigning sequencing reads to their corresponding locations. 1/2🧵
In the GENETICS July cover, color haplotype blocks display monkeypox/mpox viruses & the linkage disequilibrium plot using SNP pairs as new markers to score recombination frequency & genetic linkage in a virus. Read more: buff.ly/SKNm6jw 📸: Patrick Feehley, Michael Feehley, & Gregory Contreras
New in #G3journal: Bioinformatic, cell localization, and phylogenetic analyses reveal a unique gene family of lipases associated with lipid droplets in freshwater ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. 🔗 buff.ly/f8MlsjD
A new statistical method aggregates physicochemical commonalities among mutational effects and quantifies the degree to which they explain the effects of single amino acid substitutions across proteins and phenotypes using deep mutational scanning data. Read more in #GENETICS 🔗 buff.ly/25yALR7
New study in #G3journal reevaluates genetics and ancestry in #equine breeds, quantifying genome-wide runs of homozygosity (ROH) in purebred horses. 🐎 🔗 buff.ly/eeVRm5q
Whether you’re staying in Kobe after #Worm27 or looking for a late-night, after-sessions dinner spot with a stunning view, a walk along the harbor & visit to Kobe Port Tower is a must! Take in panoramic views of the city & the sea. Learn more in our guide: buff.ly/mnkh5gg #TravelTipTuesday
How do birds adapt to habitat? Read the new study in #G3journal that reveals how recombination landscapes varied between two geographically close but ecologically distinct populations of three-spined sticklebacks, revealing population-specific patterns. 🔗 buff.ly/X3EHvXu
📢 Need time to draft your public comment on the proposed OMB "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance"? Join GSA for a one-hour virtual working session on July 10 from 9:00–10:00 am. EDT. ⏰ Comments due July 13. 🔗Register here: buff.ly/koJqUC1