The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel
Mackay, Richards et al., Nature
North Carolina State University's Trudy Mackay and her colleagues present the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel, "a community resource for analysis of population genomics and quantitative traits."
Leena Peltonen-Palotie Dies
March 15, 2010
Leena Peltonen-Palotie, the head human genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, died last week, the institute says. She was 57. Peltonen-Palotie studied population genetics and her group found mutations associated with schizophrenia, obesity, heart diseases among other disease. During her career, she also established a genetic research center at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. She also worked with the Academy of Finland, her country. "Academician Leena Peltonen-Palotie has been a role model, both to scientists around the world and to individuals who hope to embark on careers in research. She has left a void in the Finnish scientific community that will be impossible to fill," says Markku Mattila, president of the Academy of Finland, in a statement.