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 .
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 [ edit ] 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]
^ 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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