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2023 Society Awards
- Last call for the 2023 JBS Haldane Lecture, Genetics Society Medal, Mary Lyon Medal, and the Balfour Lecture. Send your...
Mendel’s 200th Birthday Garden Party
- Image credit: Joana Carvalho Join us at RHS Wisley, Surrey, on 20th July 2022 for a garden party of science...
Committee Vacancy
- The Genetics Society invites applications for the role of Partnership and Membership Officer. The role of the Partnership and Membership...
Mendel Medal 2022 – Professor Azim Surani and Professor Davor Solter
- The Mendel Medal 2022 was jointly awarded to Professor Azim Surani and Professor Davor Solter for discovery of genomic imprinting. ...
Mary Lyon Medal 2022 – Prof Irene Miguel-Aliaga
- Irene Miguel-Aliaga is Professor of Genetics and Physiology at Imperial College London, and MRC Investigator at the MRC London Institute...
Balfour Lecture 2022 – Dr Sam Behjati
- Sam Behjati is a Group Leader / Wellcome Intermediate Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist...
Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize 2020 – Rosa Cheesman
- The 2019/20 Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize is awarded to Dr Rosa Cheesman. Rosa’s outstanding thesis ‘Leveraging family data for...
Genetics Society Medal 2022 – Prof Robin Lovell-Badge
- The 2022 Genetics Society medal is awarded to Robin Lovell-Badge. Robin will receive his Medal at the Society autumn conference,...
JBS Haldane Lecture 2022 – Prof Mike Fay
- The Genetics Society is delighted to announce Professor Mike Fay, Kew Gardens, as the winner of the 2022 JBS Haldane...
Haldane Lecture 2020 – Jonathan Pettitt
- Jonathan Pettitt will present the 2020 Genetics Society Haldane Lecture at the Royal Institution from 7:00pm – 8:30pm on Tuesday 14th...
Hap-pea Birthday Mendel!
- To help the Genetics Society in celebrating Gregor Mendel’s 200th birthday anniversary on the 20th of July 2022, we invite...
Public lecture: Genomic “Dark Matter” and its role in health and disease
- As part of our Spring Meeting in Edinburgh we will have a public lecture Genomic “Dark Matter” and its role in...
National Career’s week
- It’s National Career’s week! If you want to find out more about a career in genetics check our our career’s...
2022 February Newsletter
- The February 2022 issue of the Genetics Society Newsletter is now available for download. “In this issue we are exploring...
Functional Regulatory Genomics and Disease
- Do join us 11-13th April in Edinburgh for our spring 2022 Scientific Meeting, Functional Regulatory Genomics and Disease. Free registration...
FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND GLOBAL COVID-19 GENOMICS TRAINING PROGRAMME LAUNCHED
- A new, global training programme that aims to provide deeper understanding about SARS-CoV-2 genomics and biodata, and how this knowledge...
Haldane Lecture 2021 – Matthew Cobb
- Matthew Cobb will present the 2021 Genetics Society Haldane Lecture at the Royal Institution from 7:00pm – 8:30pm on Tuesday 22nd...
New Committee Members 2022
- The Genetics Society welcomes two new members to the committee – Dr Jason Mellad and Dr Laura Dixon, and the...