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Editor-in-Chief of Nature
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
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the
University of Cambridge .
[9]
[7] She briefly worked as a
postdoctoral
fellow at the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund , working on the
notch signaling pathway of
zebrafish in gut development.
[7]
[10]
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
Estée Lauder Companies to launch a global award for women in science.
[17]
[18] She became the first woman editor-in-chief of
Nature in its 150-year history in May 2018, when she succeeded
Philip Campbell .
[19]
[20]
[2] 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]
References
^
a
b Skipper, Magdalena (1998).
Primary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans . lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
OCLC
894603337 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.624901 .
^
a
b Skipper, Magdalena (2018).
"A welcome from the new Nature editor" . Nature . 559 (7712): 6.
Bibcode :
2018Natur.559....6S .
doi :
10.1038/d41586-018-05606-y .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
PMID
29968844 .
^ Skipper, Magdalena (2015). "The peopling of Britain". Nature Reviews Genetics . 16 (5): 256–257.
doi :
10.1038/nrg3938 .
ISSN
1471-0056 .
PMID
25824870 .
S2CID
30674163 .
^ Skipper, Magdalena (2015).
"Strength in numbers in the low-frequency spectrum" . Nature Reviews Genetics . 16 (11): 623.
doi :
10.1038/nrg4024 .
ISSN
1471-0056 .
PMID
26442638 .
^
a
b Magda Skipper's
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 .
^ 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.
doi :
10.1093/genetics/151.2.617 .
PMC
1460491 .
PMID
9927456 .
^ Codrops.
"Prof. Magdalena Skipper" . igmc-cegmr.org . Archived from
the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018 .
^ Skipper, Magda (2007).
"An Interview with Anne McLaren" . Nature Reviews Genetics . 8 (6): 412.
doi :
10.1038/nrg2123 .
ISSN
1471-0056 .
PMID
17571324 .
^ Skipper, Magda (2005).
"An Interview With Mario Capecchi" . Nature Reviews Genetics . 6 (6): 434.
doi :
10.1038/nrg1647 .
ISSN
1471-0056 .
PMID
15934189 .
S2CID
31781543 .
^ Skipper, Magda (2005).
"An Interview With Oliver Smithies" . Nature Reviews Genetics . 6 (5): 350.
doi :
10.1038/nrg1627 .
ISSN
1471-0056 .
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 .
^
a
b Else, Holly (2018). "Nature announces new editor-in-chief". Nature .
doi :
10.1038/d41586-018-05060-w .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
^
"Glamour's New EIC Makes New Hires | People on the Move - Folio" . Folio . 2 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018 .
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