Trainee

Program Committee member and trainee Cassie Robertson shares tips for organizing, designing, and presenting a scientific poster. Read More

Each September, the editorial board of The American Journal of Human Genetics selects two trainee-authored articles published in AJHG in the previous year that best represent outstanding scientific contributions to the field of human genetics. Two AJHG Awards for Outstanding Trainee Publication will be given annually, with a monetary award of $1,000 and a certificate presented to... Read More

Trainee Author: Ajai K. Pathak Early Career Researcher Estonian Biocentre-Institute of Genomics University of Tartu (Photo courtesy Jüri Parik)   Pathak AK, et al.The Genetic Ancestry of Modern Indus Valley Populations from Northwest India. American Journal of Human Genetics. 2018 Dec 6;103(6) To fully capture the variation of the human genome it is important to... Read More

Written by Nascent Transcript writer Sumantra Chatterjee (@rovingscientist) The practice of science has been a source of fascination and confusion for many over the years. It’s a world full of jargon and complicated data that have no real-life application. So, it takes a while to explain that if you look beyond the jargon, most things... Read More

Written by Nascent Transcript writer Jennifer Zieba The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was brought forth in the mid-1950s when John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky used the term to describe machines that could do more than carry out simple input calculations. Now, AI and advanced machine learning techniques have not only become ubiquitous in our... Read More