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Issue 68 of the Genetics Society Newsletter JANUARY 2013 | ISSUE 68 GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS In this issue The Genetics Society News is edited • New Honorary Members by David Hosken and items for future • Our New President issues can be sent to the editor, by email to [email protected]. • Meetings The Newsletter is published twice a • Summer Student and Travel Reports year, with copy dates of 1st June and 26th November. A Genetics Society workshop ‘Communicating your science’, see page 6. The Genetics Society Medal 2012, see page 17. A WORD FROM THE EDITOR A word from the editor Welcome to issue 68. one of the reasons the Society is in such good shape. Welcome to another issue of the I finally want to briefly return Newsletter. We include a range of to a topic I have touched on in interesting articles, student reports, previous Editorials, Athena SWAN meeting reports and so on, and I and women in science (or the would like to point out that Mike lack of women in science to be Bruford has taken from Roger more accurate). My department Butlin as Editor in Chief of our is currently in the midst of an journal, Heredity. A huge thanks to Athena SWAN drive and I am Roger for all his efforts over the last pleased to report that we are few years. He did a fantastic job and discovering some relatively simple I am sure we all wish him well in his ways to support and hopefully “retirement”, and Mike all the best to facilitate the retention of our in his new role. young female, and male, scientists. I also want to offer a Newsletter Provision of good mentoring welcome to Enrico Coen in his ladders is a recurring request and (relatively) new position as the their implementation across the President of the Society and thank board could help redress the sexual Veronica for all of her grand efforts inequality that permeates the during the past few years when she sciences. I will keep you all posted. filled that post. The calibre of our Best wishes Presidents is truly outstanding and David Hosken The calibre of Genetic Society Presidents is truly outstanding and one of the reasons the Society is in such good shape. 2 . GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS . ISSUE 68 Issue 68 . January 2013 For more details please contact: The Genetics Society C/O Portland Customer Services Commerce Way, Colchester CO2 8HP CONTENTS Switchboard: +44 (0)1206 796 351 Fax: +44 (0)1206 798 650 Email: [email protected] Web: www.genetics.org.uk Meeting Announcements 4 - 8 The Genetics Society Journals Heredity 2013 Spring Meeting www.nature.com/hdy 2013 Autumn Meeting Managing Editor: Professor Michael Bruford Heredity Editorial Office, Cardiff University, Cathays Park, Communicating your science workshop Cardiff, CF103AX, Wales External Meetings Diary Genes and Development www.genesdev.org Sectional Interest Groups 9 Editor: T. Grodzicker, Genes & Development, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 500 Sunnyside Boulevard, Genetics Society Business 10 - 21 Woodbury, New York, 11797, USA President Genetics Society Meeting Reports 22 - 23 Prof Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, Norwich 25 years of Genes & Development Vice-Presidents Dr Chris Smith, University of Cambridge Genetics Society Sponsored Events 24 - 31 Prof Rebekka Oakey, King’s College London 4th Quantitative Genetics Meeting & Prof Elizabeth Fisher, University College London Postgraduate Symposium Honorary Secretary European Plant Science PhD Retreat Prof Tanya Whitfield, University of Sheffield Honorary Treasurer Features 32 - 35 Dr Hiro Ohkura, University of Edinburgh 2012 Medalist Speaks Scientific Meetings Secretary Award for Naked Science Prof Dirk-Jan de Koning, Swedish University of Agricultural Book Review Unix& Perl Sciences, Uppsala Newsletter Editor Travel Reports 36 - 50 Prof David Hosken, University of Exeter Evolutionary Genomics Postgraduate Representative Zebrafish Adam Hargraves, Bangor University SMBE Ordinary Committee Members Evolutionary Biology Prof Anne Donaldson, University of Aberdeen Dr Colum Walsh, University of Ulster EED Prof Chris Ponting, University of Oxford Sticklebacks Prof Jane Rogers, The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Speciation Prof Julian Lewis, CRUK London Laboratories Dr Ian Henderson, University of Cambridge Xenopus Prof Jon Slate, University of Sheffield Ecology Dr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Cancer Prof Judith Mank, University College London Prof John Whittaker, GlaxoSmithKline, Harlow Genomes Dominique Kleyn, BioIndustry Association Design and Print Fieldwork Reports 51 - 52 Round & Red Creative . 15 Poole Road Shrews Woking . Surrey . GU21 6BB Tel: 01483 596 226 . www.roundandred.com Training Grants 53 Molecular Biology Advertising in Genetics Society News represents an opportunity to reach a large community of professional Studentship Reports 54 - 65 geneticists. For rates please email Photoreceptors [email protected] Frigida Meiosis Wild yeast B in Brassica Ageing markers Arabidopsis stress Spacemakers Wing discs www.genetics.org.uk . 3 2013 Spring Meeting A joint meeting held by the Genetics Society and BSHG Genomics for Health and Society 19 April. The Royal Society, London Genomics promises to revolutionize medicine and health Speakers care, with the potential for highly personalised treatments Kate Bushby University of Newcastle for the very first time. This meeting will focus on these Sir John Burn University of Newcastle and related issues, with presentations on clinical and Jim Lupski Baylor College of Medicine, Houston societal issues that arise from these new horizons. Mark Henderson Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust Jane Kaye University of Oxford This meeting is jointly organised by the Genetics Mark Jobling University of Leicester Society and the British Society of Human Genetics, and Sir Alec Jeffreys University of Leicester brings together experts in diverse domains, from DNA fingerprinting to consumer genomics, from genealogy A full list of speakers will be available soon on to genomic medicine, from the legal implications of the Genetics Society web site. genomics to the therapeutic opportunities. Scientific Organisers Matt Hurles, Chris Ponting and Bill Newman for registration, visit www.genetics.org.uk 2013 Autumn Meeting From Genes to Shape Thursday 7 – Friday 8 November. The Royal Society, London How does digital information in a linear DNA sequence lead to Speakers include the dynamic shape of individual cells, such as pollen tubes and Anja Geitmann Université de Montréal neurons, and growing multicellular structures such as flowers Ray Goldstein University of Cambridge or wings? Recent advances in genetics, imaging, cell biology, Verônica Grieneisen John Innes Centre, Norwich biophysics and computational biology are being used to address Max Heiman Harvard Medical School this problem at a mechanistic level for the first time. Frank Jülicher Max Planck Institut, Dresden Stan Leibler Princeton and Rockefeller Universities This two-day meeting brings together scientists working at Sophie Martin University of Lausanne the interface of these disciplines to unravel the mechanisms Benedicte Sanson University of Cambridge underlying shape generation from the subcellular to the tissue James Sharpe EMBL-CRG, Barcelona scale. Topics include cytoskeleton dynamics, cell polarity, growth Jan Traas ENS, Lyon and deformation of cell sheets and formation of primordia and appendages. The meeting will highlight unifying principles by Meeting organisers ranging over microbial, plant and animal systems. Enrico Coen and Buzz Baum for registration, visit www.genetics.org.uk A Genetics Society Workshop Communicating Your Science A Genetics Society Workshop for PhD students and postdocs April 23rd – 25th 2013, Chicheley Hall, Chicheley Road, Newport Pagnell, Chicheley An important part of science is getting your results and Tutors and Speakers include ideas across to others, through papers, presentations, Armand Leroi (author, broadcaster and professor of Evolutionary theses, grant proposals, conversations and interviews. and Developmental Biology, Imperial College, London) Your audience may include specialists in the field, those Ana Marques (expert in experimental and computational from other disciplines, industry, or the general public. genomics, Oxford University) Mark Patterson (expert in scientific publishing, Managing How can you best communicate your science? Executive Editor of eLife, Cambridge) This workshop brings together experts in different Chris Smith (broadcaster, medical doctor, lecturer in Virology, fields - writers, broadcasters, publishers, industrialists, Cambridge University) computer scientists, and presenters - to help you Rebecca Stott (novelist, historian and professor of English explore and develop your communication skills. Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia) Working together with others on the course you will learn how to structure presentations, develop writing Organisers skills, bridge disciplines and have hands-on experience Enrico Coen, Dominique Kleyn, Chris Ponting, of broadcasting. Jon Slate and Chris Smith The Genetics Society will cover costs of travel, accommodation and meals for successful applicants. The course is open to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working in genetics and related areas The deadline for applications is 3rd March 2013. You can apply online at: www.genetics.org.uk/Events.aspx 7 EXTERNAL MEETINGS DIARY We will happily include any announcements for genetics-based meetings in this section. Please send any items to the editor. Gordon Conference, Mammalian DNA Repair Joint Conference of
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