Magdalena Skipper

Magdalena Skipper
Skipper speaking at Congreso Futuro in 2019
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham (BSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsNature
Springer Nature
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
University of Cambridge
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
ThesisPrimary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans (1998)
Academic advisorsJonathan Hodgkin

Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and editor-in-chief. 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][6] She briefly worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, working on the notch signaling pathway of zebrafish in gut development.[6][9]

Skipper joined Nature in 2001 as an associate editor for Nature Reviews Genetics.[6] 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][14] She serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Personalised Medicine at the University of Oxford.[15] Skipper worked briefly as Director for Scientific Communications at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences in Seattle.[4][7]

In 2018 she worked with Nature and Estée Lauder Companies to launch a global award for women in science.[16][17] She became the first woman editor-in-chief of Nature in its 150-year history in May 2018, when she succeeded Philip Campbell.[18][19][20] She has stated that she intends to ensure that science is reproducible and robust, as well as doing more to support early-career researchers.[18]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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 icon
  3. ^ 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 icon
  4. ^ a b Magda Skipper's ORCID 0000-0001-8707-8369
  5. ^ Skipper, Magdalena (7 November 2016). "Magdalena Skipper". force11.org. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d Anon (2018). "Dr Magdalena Skipper appointed editor-in-chief at Nature". thebookseller.com. The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Magdalena Skipper - Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium". Careers in Science 2017: Academia and beyond Symposium. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  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. doi:10.1093/genetics/151.2.617. PMC 1460491. PMID 9927456. Open access icon
  9. ^ Codrops. "Prof. Magdalena Skipper". igmc-cegmr.org. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  10. ^ Skipper, Magda (2007). "An Interview with Anne McLaren". Nature Reviews Genetics. 8 (6): 412. doi:10.1038/nrg2123. ISSN 1471-0056. PMID 17571324.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Skipper, Magda (2005). "An Interview With Oliver Smithies". Nature Reviews Genetics. 6 (5): 350. doi:10.1038/nrg1627. ISSN 1471-0056. PMID 15880879.
  13. ^ "ENCODE Project Telebriefing Participant Bios". National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  14. ^ NCCR Chemical Biology (25 January 2018), Career discovery: Science publishing (Magdalena Skipper), retrieved 3 May 2018
  15. ^ "People - Centre for Personalised Medicine". www.well.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  16. ^ "Spotlight on women in science with 2 global awards". saudigazette.com.sa. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ a b Else, Holly (2018). "Nature announces new editor-in-chief". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05060-w. ISSN 0028-0836.
  19. ^ "Glamour's New EIC Makes New Hires | People on the Move - Folio". Folio. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  20. ^ 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