The ASHG Virtual Career Fair will be taking place February 17 from 10 AM- 3 PM Eastern. The Career Fair, which will include more than 18 exhibiting companies, will be an opportunity for those interested in human genetics and genomics to connect with prospective employers, colleagues, and mentors regardless of career stage. We recently spoke... Read More
Posted by: Nicole Ferraro, MS. Laure Frésard, PhD has had an eventful transition from academia to industry. She returned from visiting family in France just before shelter-in-place orders began in California and spent only days in the office before going remote. Thankfully, the months since have gone smoothly in her new role as a Computational... Read More
The ASHG 2020 Virtual Meeting registration fee includes a full day of professional development events and career planning tools. On Monday, October 26, a whole day will be devoted to careers when the Society hosts Career Development Day. Programming will include career development panels on such topics as entrepreneurship, communications skills, and mentoring. ASHG discussed... Read More
As part of the implementation of its strategic plan, the Online Programs and Professional Education Working Group was created. The Working Group has been charged by the Board with creating new digital ways to communicate with ASHG members. As a result, the new podcast series Genetically Speaking was created. The series features weekly informal conversations... Read More
Each month, the editors of The American Journal of Human Genetics interview an author of a recently published paper. This month, we check in with Casey Romanoski to discuss her paper, “Systems Genetics in Human Endothelial Cells Identifies Non-coding Variants Modifying Enhancers, Expression, and Complex Disease Traits”. AJHG: What caused you to start working on... Read More