Magdalena skipper

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Magdalena Skipper (2019)

Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and editor-in-chief of the journal Nature . She is the first woman at the top in the magazine's 150-year history. She was previously the editor of Nature Reviews Genetics and the open access journal Nature Communications .

Life

Skipper holds a bachelor's degree in genetics from the University of Nottingham . She received her PhD from Cambridge University in 1998 , where she worked in Jonathan Hodgkin's laboratory. There she investigated the sex determination of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans . She is a member of Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University.

Career and research

After completing her PhD, she joined the Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Medical Research Council at Cambridge University. She worked briefly as a postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and studied the notch signaling pathway of zebrafish in bowel development.

Skipper came in 2001 as deputy editor for the area to Nature Reviews Genetics Nature . While working as an editor, she interviewed several high profile academics, including Anne McLaren , Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies . She was named Editor-in-Chief of Nature Reviews Genetics in 2002 and promoted to Deputy Editor in 2008.

In 2018, she created a global award for women in science in partnership with Nature and the Estée Lauder Companies . In May 2018, she succeeded Philip Campbell as Nature's first female editor-in-chief in its 150-year history.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magdalena Skipper: A welcome from the new nature editor . In: Nature . tape 559 , July 3, 2018, p. 6–6 , doi : 10.1038 / d41586-018-05606-y ( online [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b Benedicte Page: Dr Magdalena Skipper appointed editor-in-chief at Nature. In: The Bookseller. May 2, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Magdalena Skipper: Strength in numbers in the low-frequency spectrum . In: Nature Reviews Genetics . tape 16 , no. November 11 , 2015, ISSN  1471-0064 , p. 623–623 , doi : 10.1038 / nrg4024 ( online [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  4. ↑ ORCID: Magdalena Skipper (Brille0001-8707-8369). Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Magdalena Skipper: Primary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans . 1998 ( bl.uk [accessed April 30, 2020] University of Cambridge).
  6. ↑ Magdalena Skipper. In: Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium. Retrieved April 30, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Prof. Magdalena Skipper. May 4, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  8. ^ Anne McLaren . In: Nature Reviews Genetics . tape 8 , no. 6 , June 2007, ISSN  1471-0064 , p. 412-412 , doi : 10.1038 / nrg2123 ( online [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Capecchi M: An Interview With ... Mario Capecchi. Interview by Magdalena Skipper. June 2005, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Oliver Smithies: An Interview With ... In: Nature Reviews Genetics . tape 6 , no. 5 , May 2005, ISSN  1471-0064 , p. 350-350 , doi : 10.1038 / nrg1627 ( online [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  11. ^ ENCODE Project Telebriefing Participant Bios. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
  12. ↑ Spotlight on women in science with 2 global awards. April 19, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  13. ^ Holly Else: Nature announces new editor-in-chief . In: Nature . May 2, 2018, doi : 10.1038 / d41586-018-05060-w ( online [accessed April 30, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Skipper, Magdalena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geneticist and medical journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century