The Genetics Society of America (GSA)

Investigation of inheritance and heredity.
The GSA advocates funding of research in genetics, primarily through its membership in the Coalition for the Life Sciences (CLS), an organization of leading scientists that fosters public policies to advance basic biological research and its applications in medicine and other fields. Through its membership in the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB), the GSA addresses policy issues of concern to its members with members of the US Congress and leadership of US federal science funding agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture

Interaction among geneticists.
The GSA organizes and sponsors several conferences for researchers. These include the long-running model organism meetings: Yeast (biennial), C. elegans (biennial), and Drosophila (annual meetings), and the new Society-wide Model Organisms to Human Biology meeting (biennial). The Meetings Committee welcomes opportunities to sponsor other meetings appropriate to its mission. The GSA Reporter, the Society’s newsletter (published three times a year), and the biweekly GSA e-news keep members apprised of Society activities.
 

Communication of discoveries.
The GSA publishes GENETICS, the leading journal for geneticists since the first issue in 1916. The Board of Directors appoints the Editor-in-Chief on recommendations from the Publications Committee. The GSA is also exploring new opportunities for scientific communication, such as those offered by the organism-specific databases.
 

Education of students and the public.
The Society’s Education Committee and Education Special Interest group seek to facilitate the integration of advances in genetics in the K through college curriculum. The GSA communicates to the public advances in genetics and answers to issues by providing expert opinion to the press and others.