Trainee

By Christina Del Greco, BS/BA Happy (almost) New Year, ASHG members!  With the start of a new year often come resolutions to start new or improve current habits.  If your upcoming resolutions involve reading more books or listening to more podcasts, you’ve come to the right place.  This year, we reached out to trainee ASHG... Read More

By Latrice Landry, PhD In-Sketch with Ninad Oak As members of the American Society of Human Genetics gathered for the 2022 Annual Conference in Los Angeles, the mark of the pandemic and its aftermath still lingered. This was the first time many members met in person—in general, many felt thrilled to once again experience this... Read More

By Nandana Rao, PhD Since becoming a graduate student, I haven’t had the chance to attend an in-person ASHG annual meeting before. I was looking forward to attending ASHG 2022 after the virtual meetings in 2020 and 2021. I had no real sense of the scale of the meeting going in, but when I entered... Read More

On May 11, 2022, ASHG hosted its second (virtual) Capitol Hill Day. This event brought together 21 Society members from the ASHG Board of Directors, the Government and Public Advocacy Committee (GPAC), and trainee advocates from the Advocacy Certificate for Human Genetics and Genomics Trainees (ACGT) program. ASHG advocates shared the value and progress of... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in many ways across societies. With this, the role of scientists and by extension, the work and perception of science trainees have also transformed. At an individual level, many have felt isolated and lost in the pursuit of their personal and professional goals. However, this phase has created... Read More