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JANUARY 2020 | ISSUE 82 GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS In this issue The Genetics Society News is edited by Margherita Colucci and items for future • Medal and Prize Lecture Announcements issues can be sent to the editor by email • “A Century of Genetics” conference to [email protected]. • Celebrating the centenary of Fisher 1918 The Newsletter is published twice a year, • Research and travel grant reports with copy dates of July and January. Speakers’ dinner at the “A Century of Genetics” conference, November 2019, Edinburgh. (Photo by Douglas Vernimmen) A WORD FROM THE EDITOR A word from the editor Welcome to Issue 82 elcome to the latest issue of reports in the Sectional Interest Wthe GenSoc Newsletter and Groups: Reports section. my first steps (pages?) as new editor. And why not (re)discovering another I am eager to start this journey with great milestone such as the publishing you through the latest Genetics of Fisher’s 1918 paper, “The correlation Society achievements and genetics between relatives on the supposition news! I would like to thank all of Mendelian inheritance”, recently GenSoc committee for giving me this reaching its centenary recurrence? opportunity. I am sure you will greatly enjoy the In this issue, I will bring you back to report in the Features section. the inspiring and lively atmosphere Enjoy! of the GenSoc meeting ‘A Century of Genetics’ in Edinburgh (November Best wishes, 2019) - a really big thanks to all of those Margherita Colucci who kindly contributed. Many Sectional Interest groups have been very active: you will find their In this issue, I will bring you back to the inspiring and lively atmosphere of the GenSoc meeting “A Century of Genetics” in Edinburgh (November 2019) - a really big thanks to all of those who kindly contributed. 2 . GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS . ISSUE 81 ISSUE 82 . January 2020 For more details please contact: The Genetics Society 1 Naoroji Street London WC1X 0GB CONTENTS Switchboard: +44 0203 793 7850 Email: [email protected] Web: www.genetics.org.uk The Genetics Society Journals Meeting Announcements 0 Heredity Genetics Society Scientific Meetings www.nature.com/hd External Meetings Diary Editor-in-Chief: Prof Barbara Mable Heredity Editorial Office, University of Glasgow, Sectional Interest Groups 0 Graham Kerr Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland Genetics Society Business 0 Genes and Development www.genesdev.org Honorary Secretary’s Notices Editor: Dr Terri Grodzicker Life Membership Genes & Development, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Lecture and Medal nominations 500 Sunnyside Boulevard, Woodbury, New York, 11797, USA Local Representatives Committee members Sectional Interest Groups: Reports 0 President British Yeast Group meeting - 26-28 June 2019, Prof Laurence D. Hurst, University of Bath Newcastle upon Tyne Vice-Presidents 11th British Meiosis Meeting The Telomere Network UK (TeN UK) - Corporate Affairs 10th-11th September 2019, Leicester Prof Malcolm Logan, King’s College London External Relations South West Fly meeting - 8th May 2019, Bristol Prof Colum Walsh, University of Ulster UK C. elegans meeting - 16th September 2019, London Public Understanding of Genetics Prof Alison Woollard, University of Oxford Features 17 Genetics Society Centenary events Honorary Secretary - “A Century of Genetics”, 2019 meeting in Edinburgh Dr Jonathan Pettitt, University of Aberdeen “100 years of quantitative genetics theory and its Honorary Treasurer applications”: celebrating the centenary of Fisher 1918 Prof Martin Taylor, University of Edinburgh Announcement of the new Newsletter series: Scientific Meetings Secretary “Industrious Science” Dr Marika Charalambous, King’s College London Grant Reports 27 Newsletter Editor Junior Scientist Travel Reports Margherita Colucci, University of Leicester One-off Meeting Reports Website Editor Heredity Fieldwork Grant Report Dr Kay Boulton, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh Training Grant Reports Policy Officer G&D Summer Studentship Grant Reports Prof Rebecca Oakey, King’s College London Public Engagement with Genetics Grant Postgraduate Representative Grant Schemes 48 Ms Helena Wells, Kings College London Contacting the Genetics Society 55 Shadow Postgraduate Representative Ms Emily Baker, University of Oxford Ordinary Committee Members Gene Structure, function and regulation Dr Aziz Aboobaker, University of Oxford Dr Michelle Holland, King’s College London Genomics Dr Araxi Aruttia Odobachian, University of Bath Cell and Develomental Genetics Prof Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen Prof Paola Olivieri, University College London Applied and Quantitative Genetics Dr Lindsey Leach, University of Birmingham Dr Alastair Wilson, University of Exeter Evolutionary, ecological and population genetics Prof Jason Wolf, University of Bath Dr Frank Hailer Corporate Genetics and Biotechnology Dr Jim Huggett, University of Surrey and LGC Teddington Dr Alison Bentley, The National Institute of Agricultural Botany Design and Print Collaborate Agency www.collaborate.agency www.genetics.org.uk . 3 GENETICS SOCIETY SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 4 More detailed information and links to event websites can be found at www.genetics.org.uk/events_categories/conferences/ Genetics Society Carer’s Award BSDB/Genetics Society In recognition of carer’s responsibilities, an award of (up Annual Spring Meeting to) £60/day will be made available to enable members and Date: 15th – 18th March 2020 selected speakers to attend Genetics Society scientific Location: The Oculus Building, The University of Warwick, meetings and events. Awardees can spend this money as Coventry they think will best support their attendance. Applications Registration deadline: 9th March, 2020 can be made through the mysociety portal. (Early bird Registration: 19th February, 2020) Abstract deadline: 16th January 2020 Website: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/164/home REGISTER FOR MORE GENETIC SOCIETY EVENTS AT: www.genetics.org.uk 4 . GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS . ISSUE 81 5 EXTERNAL MEETINGS DIARY More detailed information and links to event websites Inter-Organ Communication in Physiology and can be found at www.genetics.org.uk/events_categories/ Disease external-meetings Date: 15th-18th March, 2020 We will happily include any announcements for genetics- Location: EMBL Heidelberg, Germany based meetings in this section. Website: www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2020/ EES20-02/ Please send any items to [email protected] Deadlines: 2nd February (Registration); 6th January (Abstract submission) Info: The conference will bring together scientists working on Evolution and Ecology of Cancer foetal programming and developmental origins of health and Date: 17th - 19th July 2019 disease in humans and animals (with a focus on the mechanisms Location: Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge underlying the developmental programming) with ecologists Website: coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/ and evolutionary biologists interested in the effects of the our-events/evolutionecologycancer2019/ parental environment on offspring physiology. Info: This new conference aims to bring together evolutionary biologists, ecologists, cancer researchers and cancer clinicians, Genomics of Rare Diseases highlighting that evolution and ecology are fundamental to both Date: 25th-27th March, 2020 the basic science and the clinical management of cancer. Location: Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge Website: coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus. Evolutionary Systems Biology org/our-events/genomics-raredisease-2020/ Date: 12th-14th February, 2020 Deadlines: 14th January (Bursary deadline); 28th January Location: Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge (Abstract deadline); 25th February (Registration deadline) Website: coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus. Info: This conference will explore how cutting-edge org/our-events/evolutionarysystems-biology-2020/ genomic research translates into clinical care and informs our Deadlines: Registration deadline – 14th January, 2020 understanding of the biology of rare disease. The programme Info: This conference will provide a forum for scientists features the latest findings related to the genomic basis of interested in applying systems and mechanistic approaches rare diseases, providing powerful insights into human biology, to understand evolution. This conference will explore the disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches. evolution of biological systems at different levels: from genes and molecules to organism development and physiology. 6th Annual Next Generation Sequencing UAS Congress Optimmunize: Improving the beneficial effects of Date: 7th-8th April, 2020 vaccines Location: Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette, Date: 19th-21st February, 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Location: Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge Website: http://bit.ly/35fRRxp Website: coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus. Info: Over 350 end users representing internationally renowned org/our-events/optimmunize/ research & academic institutions, clinical research institutions, Deadlines: Registration deadline - 21st January, 2020 healthcare organisations as well as leading pharmaceutical Info: The conference will bring together epidemiologists, and biotech companies.3 outstanding programmes bringing immunologists and clinicians, as well as research scientists with together Europe’s key genomics experts in Next Generation complementary expertise, and parallel disciplines. We will Sequencing, Single Cell Analysis, Genome Editing. Over