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.

Nicholette Zeliadt
Managing editor
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Leaving lasting marks with Tessa Montague
Spotted around the web: INSAR; cerebellar gene expression; pangenome
Spotted around the web: Mapping histones; COVID-19 births; acetaminophen lawsuits

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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