Nicholette Zeliadt manages The Transmitters’s staff reporters and interns, and she commissions and edits news articles. She joined The Transmitter as news writer in 2014. Before that, she was a freelance writer and editor. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature Medicine, Science and The Scientist.
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Nicholette Zeliadt
Managing editor
The Transmitter
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Leaving lasting marks with Tessa Montague
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Spotted around the web: Mapping histones; COVID-19 births; acetaminophen lawsuits
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New diagnostic code for PTEN syndrome may spur research
Education
- Ph.D. in environmental health, University of Minnesota
- B.A. in biochemistry, University of Iowa
Fellowships
- AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
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