Genetics Society of America

You told us connection matters, and at #Dros27, great conversations are just steps away (10 minutes max from the venue). Grab a meal at @RdgTerminalMkt, stroll to Philadelphia City Hall, or connect over coffee at local favorites. Philly locals—where should attendees go next?

Explore the latest #machinelearning study in #G3journal that evaluates how prediction stability and ranking performance of a Gradient Boosting Machine, learning rate, and boosting rounds methods impact stability and multimetric predictive performance. 🔗 buff.ly/Z4GS6WA

Working in animal breeding, livestock genetics, or genomics? #GENETICS and #G3Journal are accepting submissions for the Advances in Genetics and Genomics of Animal Breeding Series. Deadline: September 15. 🔗: buff.ly/2kg1qxG

A new study in #G3journal shows that biofilm regulator Bcr1 can act as both a positive and negative regulator of downstream effector genes in the biofilm network and makes a new connection between biofilm and white-opaque networks in Candida albicans. 🔗 buff.ly/yli9aGY

Check out the latest perspective piece in #GENETICS, where Andrew Tomlinson summarizes how the sevenless gene helped uncover cell-fate specification, cell–cell signaling, and eye specification. 🪰 📖 A must-read article for #Drosophila researchers 🔗 buff.ly/HEtseKq

A study in #G3journal shows that QTLs and temperature effects both shape craniofacial diversity in medaka, highlighting how a common aquarium fish can be a powerful model for studying the impacts of genetic interactions and environment on diversity. 🐠 🔗 buff.ly/DkmZBXm

New analyses in #GENETICS provide insights into Wolbachia genome evolution and offer new understandings about the timescale of host switching and the evolution of incompatibility loci for two closely related model Wolbachia clades. 🪰 🔗 buff.ly/NEOHXil

Planning to apply for faculty positions this fall? Join the GSA Education Committee on July 22 for the New faculty workshop: "How to get a job and thrive in it!" Learn about applications, interviews, negotiations, and succeeding in your first year. 🔗buff.ly/B9tGR0u

Does a host's sex influence its parasite's transcriptome? New in #G3journal: Transcriptomic analysis of Brugia pahangi worms raised in male and female gerbils reveals no discernible differences in transcriptomes at different life stages. 🔗 buff.ly/5q0nsvN

What does it really take to land a faculty position? @Jazlyn_Mooney shares insights on preparing competitive applications, navigating interviews, building a research vision, and more. 🔗: buff.ly/ivR7r6O

A large #GWAS and functional validation screen in #Drosophila dissected the genetic architecture of body size, sexual size dimorphism, and sex-specific size plasticity, identifying nonoverlapping sets of loci for each phenotype. Find more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/TO0vdCz

Genome comparisons of collagen-like proteins suggest rapid coevolution between crustacean #Daphnia and its bacterial parasite Pasteuria ramosa—a pair that makes a highly specific host-parasite system. 📖 Read more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/0G7SMc6

📣 #G3Journal update: Software and Data Resources are now Software and Workflow Reports. Share tools and workflows with clear documentation, open data, and reusable design. 🔗 Submit your work: buff.ly/2difsyJ

A mutant screening report identifies several female #Drosophila recessive sterile alleles that resulted from the insertion of the mdg4 retrotransposon into the OVO transcription factor gene locus. 🪰 Learn more about these sterile lines in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/Vn9cdYt

New genomic and transcriptomic characterization of two wax moth species identifies candidate genes and secretory enzymes for future functional validation studies of plastic degradation in wax moths. #biodegradation Read more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/ttenoBo

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT Erythrina gall wasp, Quadrastichus erythrinae, is an invasive pest on the Hawaiian wiliwili tree. Its genome assembly was generated from a low amount of input DNA, with a sequencing cost of only ~$100. Read more in #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/YywFRA0

Getting excited for #Dros27? Meet our keynote speaker, @perrimonlab! His pioneering work has transformed Drosophila genetics and advanced discoveries in development, physiology, and signal transduction. See the full lineup: buff.ly/OxPE4SJ

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/JShmjUj

🪰 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 in #GENETICS 🔗 buff.ly/FM9gqPL

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/D9D2sII

@stschiff and the team present a statistical model—RAS (Rare Allele Sharing)—that summarizes rare allele frequency correlations, similar to F-statistics but with flexible ascertainment on allele frequencies. Find more in #G3journal for #rstats package 🔗 buff.ly/o3pb0JH