Magdalena Skipper Explained

Magdalena Skipper
Alma Mater:University of Nottingham (BSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)[1]
Academic Advisors:Jonathan Hodgkin
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624901
Thesis Title:Primary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans
Thesis Year:1998
Workplaces:Nature
Springer Nature
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University of Cambridge
Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and the editor-in-chief of the journal Nature. She previously served as an editor of Nature Reviews Genetics[2] [3] and the open access journal Nature Communications.

Education

Skipper obtained a bachelor's degree in genetics at the University of Nottingham.[4] [5] She completed her PhD in 1998 at the University of Cambridge, where she worked in Jonathan Hodgkin's lab investigating sex-determination systems in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.[1] [6] She is a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[7]

Career and research

After completing her PhD she joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge.[8] She briefly worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, working on the notch signaling pathway of zebrafish in gut development.[9]

Skipper joined Nature in 2001 as an associate editor for Nature Reviews Genetics. During her editorship she interviewed several high-profile scientists including Anne McLaren,[10] Mario Capecchi[11] and Oliver Smithies.[12] In 2002 she was appointed chief editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, and was promoted to associate publisher in 2008.[13] She serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Personalised Medicine at the University of Oxford.[14] Skipper worked briefly as Director for Scientific Communications at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences in Seattle.[4]

In 2018 she worked with Nature and Estée Lauder Companies to launch a global award for women in science.[15] [16] She became the first woman editor-in-chief of Nature in its 150-year history in May 2018, when she succeeded Philip Campbell.[17] [18] She has stated that she intends to ensure that science is reproducible and robust, as well as doing more to support early-career researchers.[19]

External links

|-

Notes and References

  1. PhD. University of Cambridge. Primary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans. Magdalena. Skipper. 1998. . lib.cam.ac.uk. 894603337.
  2. Skipper. Magdalena. 2015. The peopling of Britain. Nature Reviews Genetics. En. 16. 5. 256–257. 10.1038/nrg3938. 25824870. 30674163 . 1471-0056.
  3. Skipper. Magdalena. 2015. Strength in numbers in the low-frequency spectrum. Nature Reviews Genetics. En. 16. 11. 623. 10.1038/nrg4024. 26442638. 1471-0056. free.
  4. Magda Skipper's
  5. Web site: Magdalena Skipper. Skipper. Magdalena. 2016-11-07. force11.org. en. 2018-05-03. 31 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190331023611/https://www.force11.org/users/magdalena-skipper. dead.
  6. Web site: Dr Magdalena Skipper appointed editor-in-chief at Nature . Anon. 2018. thebookseller.com. The Bookseller. en. 2018-05-03.
  7. News: Magdalena Skipper - Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium. Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium. 2018-05-03. en-US.
  8. Skipper. M.. Milne. C. A.. Hodgkin. J.. 1999. Genetic and molecular analysis of fox-1, a numerator element involved in Caenorhabditis elegans primary sex determination . Genetics. 151. 2. 617–631 . 10.1093/genetics/151.2.617 . 1460491. 9927456.
  9. Web site: Prof. Magdalena Skipper. Codrops. igmc-cegmr.org. 2018-05-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180504091705/http://igmc-cegmr.org/Magdalena%20Skipper.aspx. 2018-05-04. dead.
  10. An Interview with Anne McLaren. Nature Reviews Genetics. 8. 6. 2007. 412. 1471-0056. 10.1038/nrg2123. 17571324. Magda. Skipper. free.
  11. Skipper. Magda. An Interview With Mario Capecchi. Nature Reviews Genetics. 6. 6. 2005. 434. 1471-0056. 10.1038/nrg1647. 15934189. 31781543 . free.
  12. Skipper. Magda. An Interview With Oliver Smithies. Nature Reviews Genetics. 6. 5. 2005. 350. 1471-0056. 10.1038/nrg1627. 15880879. free.
  13. Web site: ENCODE Project Telebriefing Participant Bios. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). en-US. 2018-05-03.
  14. Web site: People - Centre for Personalised Medicine. www.well.ox.ac.uk. 2018-05-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180504091937/http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/cpm/people. 2018-05-04. dead.
  15. News: Spotlight on women in science with 2 global awards. 2018-04-19. saudigazette.com.sa. 2018-05-03. en-GB.
  16. Web site: Nature Research and The Estée Lauder Companies launch global awards to celebrate inspirations for women in science . Springer Nature. springernature.com. 2018-05-03.
  17. News: Glamour's New EIC Makes New Hires People on the Move - Folio. 2018-05-02. Folio. 2018-05-03. en-US.
  18. Skipper. Magdalena. A welcome from the new Nature editor. Nature. 559. 7712. 2018. 6. 0028-0836. 10.1038/d41586-018-05606-y. 29968844. 2018Natur.559....6S. free.
  19. Else. Holly. 2018. Nature announces new editor-in-chief. Nature. EN. 10.1038/d41586-018-05060-w. 0028-0836.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Magdalena Skipper".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.