Magdalena Skipper
Magdalena Skipper | |
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Imperial Cancer Research Fund | |
Thesis | Primary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans (1998) |
Academic advisors | Jonathan Hodgkin |
Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and the editor-in-chief of the journal Nature.[2] She previously served as an editor of Nature Reviews Genetics[3][4] and the open access journal Nature Communications.
Education
Skipper obtained a bachelor's degree in genetics at the University of Nottingham.[5][6] 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][7] She is a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[8]
Career and research
After completing her PhD she joined the
Skipper joined Nature in 2001 as an associate editor for Nature Reviews Genetics.[7] During her editorship she interviewed several high-profile scientists including Anne McLaren,[11] Mario Capecchi[12] and Oliver Smithies.[13] In 2002 she was appointed chief editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, and was promoted to associate publisher in 2008.[14][15] She serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Personalised Medicine at the University of Oxford.[16] Skipper worked briefly as Director for Scientific Communications at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences in Seattle.[5][8]
In 2018 she worked with Nature and
References
- ^ EThOS uk.bl.ethos.624901.
- ^ PMID 29968844.
- S2CID 30674163.
- PMID 26442638.
- ^ ORCID 0000-0001-8707-8369
- ^ Skipper, Magdalena (7 November 2016). "Magdalena Skipper". force11.org. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d Anon (2018). "Dr Magdalena Skipper appointed editor-in-chief at Nature". thebookseller.com. The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Magdalena Skipper - Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium". Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- PMID 9927456.
- ^ Codrops. "Prof. Magdalena Skipper". igmc-cegmr.org. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- PMID 17571324.
- S2CID 31781543.
- PMID 15880879.
- ^ "ENCODE Project Telebriefing Participant Bios". National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ NCCR Chemical Biology (25 January 2018), Career discovery: Science publishing (Magdalena Skipper), retrieved 3 May 2018
- ^ "People - Centre for Personalised Medicine". www.well.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Spotlight on women in science with 2 global awards". saudigazette.com.sa. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Nature Research and The Estée Lauder Companies launch global awards to celebrate inspirations for women in science". springernature.com. Springer Nature. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ ISSN 0028-0836.
- ^ "Glamour's New EIC Makes New Hires | People on the Move - Folio". Folio. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
External links
- Magdalena Skipper on Twitter
- Media related to Magdalena Skipper at Wikimedia Commons