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Genetics Society News JANUARY 2012 | ISSUE 66 GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS In this issue The Genetics Society News is edited • The Mather Award 2011 by David Hosken and items for future • Meetings issues can be sent to the editor, by email to [email protected]. • Society Changes The Newsletter is published twice a • Summer Student and Travel Reports year, with copy dates of 1st June and 26th November. A Tilia cordata tree, the subject of a fieldwork grant. See page 40 A WORD FROM THE EDITOR A word from the editor Welcome to issue 66. pretty unforgiving in this regard. Take time out and you are out of e have an issue full of the game, forever. I use to think Winteresting reports of various this was about falling behind in Society meetings and Society funded the publish-or-perish race, but am activity, and I thank all those who no longer sure this is the whole continue to contribute these articles. picture. I think it may also have Since the last issue the HE upheaval something to do with science continues and student applications chauvinism - you clearly do not to Universities are down at present. take the work seriously enough if But rather than focus on this part you have taken time out to raise a of Academia, I would like to instead family, and science is of course a focus on a science career issue that serious and most noble cause. disproportionately impacts women. The fact that career trajectories are A science career is fantastic in many never backward - you cannot be ways and pretty tough in some demoted - probably does not help others. Fantastic partly because of either as it means if you leave at the curiosity driven nature of the one level you are unlikely to be able job, and tough because of the degree to re-enter at a lower level. to which ones ideas are continually, and at times brutally scrutinized. Of course there are re-entry Be that as it may, in most science schemes for those who do take posts the issues being addressed are breaks, but these are few and not going to have direct life or death far between, which make things consequences in the same way as say difficult for most. The flip side of a surgeon’s actions. Instead, much of all this is that you cannot have the work conducted in Academia is your cake and eat it too, and like blue skies and no one is likely to die all things in biology and life, because an experiment goes wrong, there are trade-offs. There is some or a paper is published in a low- truth to this argument, but if the impact journal. prevailing ethic disproportionately impacts particular members of the Why is it then is it so hard to re-enter scientific community, perhaps the academic science after a career community needs to have a rethink. break? Physiotherapists can re-enter their profession, ditto MDs, dentists, Best wishes lawyers and so forth, but science is David Hosken A science career is fantastic in many ways and pretty tough in some others. Fantastic partly because of the curiosity driven nature of the job, and tough because of the degree to which ones ideas are continually, and at times brutally scrutinized. 2 . GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS . ISSUE 66 Issue 66 . January 2012 For more details please contact: The Genetics Society C/-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 The Genetics Society Journals Heredity Meeting Announcements 4 - 7 www.nature.com/hdy Managing Editor: Professor Roger Butlin Genetics Society Spring Meeting Heredity Editorial Office, The University of Sheffield, Quantitative Genetics 2012 Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN 2012 Autumn Meeting Genes and Development External meetings Diary www.genesdev.org Editor: T. Grodzicker, Genes & Development, Cold Spring Sectional Interest Groups 8 Harbor Laboratory Press, 500 Sunnyside Boulevard, Woodbury, New York, 11797, USA Genetics Society Business 9 - 14 President Honorary Secretary Notices Prof. Veronica van Heyningen, Life Membership MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh Lecture and Medal nominations President Elect New Meeting Rates Prof. Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, Norwich Changes to the Society Vice-Presidents Dryad Dr. Chris Smith, University of Cambridge Local Representatives Prof. John Brookfield, University of Nottingham Prof. Ian Jackson, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh 2011 Mather Award Winners Honorary Secretary Genetics Society Meeting Reports 15 - 16 Prof. Patricia E Kuwabara, University of Bristol Epigenetics, development and disease Honorary Treasurer Genetics Society Sponsored Events 18 - 20 Prof Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh Telomere dynamics Honorary Treasurer Elect Male infertility Dr Hiro Ohkura, University of Edinburgh Features 21 - 25 Scientific Meetings Secretary Prof. Dirk-Jan de Koning, Swedish University of Agricultural Noreen Murray Sciences, Uppsala Student Travel Reports 26 - 35 Newsletter Editor 22nd ICAR Prof David Hosken, University of Exeter EUROMIT 8 Postgraduate Representative Austrian Genetics Lynne Harris, University of Edinburgh 13th ESEB Congress Ordinary Committee Members Plant Genome Evolution Dr. Rebecca Oakey, King’s College London Dr. Anne Donaldson, University of Aberdeen Diseases Genomics Prof. Chris Ponting, University of Oxford Snake Genomics Dr. Jane Rogers, The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Prof. Julian Lewis, CRUK London Laboratories Bioinformatics & Genomics Dr. Ian Henderson, University of Cambridge Placenta Meeting 2011 Dr. Jon Slate, University of Sheffield Gordon Epigenetics Prof. Gilean McVean, University of Oxford Prof. Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex Fieldwork Reports 36 - 41 Dr. Tom Weaver, MRC Mary Lyon Centre, Harwell Dr. Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute The bank vole invasion of Ireland Prof. John Whittaker, GlaxoSmithKline, Harlow Tilia Woodlands in the ‘Limelight’ Prof. Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh Studentship Reports 42 - 48 Design and Print Retinoic Acid Signalling Buzzword Creative . 146 St Pancras Chichester . West Sussex . PO19 7SH Notch in Chick and Mouse Embryos. Tel: 01243 792146 . www.buzzwordcreative.co.uk DSB repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sexual Selection & Wolbachia. Advertising in Genetics Society News Analysis of human DNA methylation. represents an opportunity to reach a large community of professional Training Reports 49 geneticists. For rates please email Cytogenetic tools for Begonias [email protected] www.genetics.org.uk . 3 2012 Spring Meeting Supermodel Organisms 4th International Chemical Genetics and Synthetic Life Conference on Quantitative Friday 20th April 2012. The Royal Society, London Genetics ICQG2012 Genetically tractable model organisms have played essential Speakers roles in the investigation of complex developmental and cell Dr Tanya Whitfield Sheffield University biological processes, thereby providing a myriad of insights Professor Sean Cutler University of California Riverside Key Dates into fundamental biology. These amazing experimental systems Professor Kevin Eggan Harvard University 17 – 22 June 2012 continue to open up new areas for investigation as well as Dr Jason Chin Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Edinburgh International Friday 3 February 2012 Abstract Submission Deadline for Oral abstracts only enabling powerful practical applications. The Genetics Society Professor Kristala Prather MIT 2012 Spring Meeting will showcase model organisms and Friday 6 April 2012 Abstract Submission Deadline for Poster abstracts only Scientific Organisers Conference Centre, illustrate how chemical and small molecule screens are Ian Henderson and Patricia Kuwabara Friday 3 February 2012 Early bird registration deadline enhancing traditional genetic analyses. In addition, the meeting Scotland, UK will highlight novel prospects for genetic engineering, as the Features Sunday 10 June 2012 Pre-conference registration closes field moves into uncharted territories through recent advances www.icqg2012.org.uk Professor Jonathan Hodgkin Oxford University in synthetic genetics. The 2011 Genetics Society Medal recipient Conference Themes: 1. The Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits Current understanding of the genetic control of complex trait variation - Genome-wide association studies and beyond. 2. Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Selective forces on quantitative traits and the maintenance of variation. 3. Variation in the Genome Sequence, structural and epigenetic variation and its phenotypic consequences. 4. Advances from New Numerical Methods Advances in our understanding of quantitative traits from new statistical, computational and modelling approaches and utilisation of computing power. 5. Opportunities from Technological Advances Potential impact of the $1000 genome and other new methods and approaches on our understanding of quantitative variation. 6. Bridging the Genotype-Phenotype Gap Networks and pathways connecting DNA variants to trait variation - approaches and models. 7. Interactions among Individuals and with the Environment Genetic interactions and covariation with the environment, in social groups and between species. 8. Genomic Information in Prediction Prediction of disease risk and performance in humans, plants and animals and use in health care and plant and animal breeding. 9. Emerging Areas New frontiers in research and late breaking results. Local Organising Committee International Marie-Anne Felix, France Juha Merilä, Finland Bill Hill (Chair) Advisory Committee Jonathan Flint, UK Bill Muir, USA Lutz Bünger
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