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Congratulations, Fall 2026 Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award recipients!
The Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award helps undergraduate GSA members presenting their research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference offset the costs of attending the meeting. This year, the 68th Annual Drosophila Research Conference will...
Science builds on science, but the databases making that possible are at risk
Scientific discoveries rarely happen in isolation. A finding from one laboratory can inspire an experiment in another, while an observation buried in a decades-old paper might provide the missing piece of an entirely different research...
Beyond the bench: Lyric Jorgensen’s path from neuroscientist to director of science policy at NIH
In this interview, Sarah Ruttenberg of the GSA Early Career Scientist Policy and Advocacy Subcommittee talked with Dr. Lyric Jorgenson, the director of science policy for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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It was critical that GSA was so willing to put their faith in us. Many people didn’t initially have a lot of confidence that a group of postdocs could organize a new event of this scale.
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