Magdalena Skipper

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Magdalena Skipper
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Skipper speaking at Congreso Futuro in 2019
Alma mater University of Nottingham (BSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD) [1]
Scientific career
Institutions Nature
Springer Nature
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University of Cambridge
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Thesis Primary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans  (1998)
Academic advisors Jonathan Hodgkin

Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and 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 .

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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] [21] 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

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ "nature - About the Editors" . Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  3. ↑ 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. Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  4. ↑ 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. Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  5. 1 2 Magda Skipper's ORCID   0000-0001-8707-8369
  6. ↑ Skipper, Magdalena (7 November 2016). "Magdalena Skipper". force11.org. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2018). "Dr Magdalena Skipper appointed editor-in-chief at Nature". thebookseller.com. The Bookseller . Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Magdalena Skipper - Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium". Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  9. ↑ 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. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  10. ↑ Codrops. "Prof. Magdalena Skipper". igmc-cegmr.org. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  11. ↑ Skipper, Magda (2007). "An Interview with Anne McLaren". Nature Reviews Genetics. 8 (6): 412. doi: 10.1038/nrg2123 . ISSN   1471-0056. PMID   17571324.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Skipper, Magda (2005). "An Interview With Oliver Smithies". Nature Reviews Genetics. 6 (5): 350. doi: 10.1038/nrg1627 . ISSN   1471-0056. PMID   15880879.
  14. ↑ "ENCODE Project Telebriefing Participant Bios". National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  15. ↑ NCCR Chemical Biology (25 January 2018), Career discovery: Science publishing (Magdalena Skipper) , retrieved 3 May 2018
  16. ↑ "People - Centre for Personalised Medicine". www.well.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  17. ↑ "Spotlight on women in science with 2 global awards". saudigazette.com.sa. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  18. ↑ "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.
  19. 1 2 Else, Holly (2018). "Nature announces new editor-in-chief". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05060-w. ISSN   0028-0836.
  20. ↑ "Glamour's New EIC Makes New Hires | People on the Move - Folio". Folio. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  21. ↑ 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.
Preceded by Editor in Chief of Nature
2018–present		Incumbent
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