Anjanette Perry Baker is Managing Editor of Journal of Heredity and Manager of the AGA. She is the first contact person for most questions about the society and its journal.
Anjanette has a checkered past in genetic and biological research. As an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, she isolated restriction enzymes. After moving to New York, she grew HeLa cells and mutated vaccinia virus at Columbia University. Leaving laboratories and the big city behind, she started grad school in Hawaii to study oceanography. There she met Scott Baker, a zoology student, who swept her off her feet and onto a research vessel in Glacier Bay, Alaska. They then spent several years following migratory humpback whales in both Hawaii and Alaska.
Scott and Anjanette were appointed Editor and Managing Editor of Journal of Heredity by the AGA Council in 2007. Scott retired as Editor in 2017, and Bill Murphy now serves in that role.
Anjanette manages the Journal's online submission site, ScholarOne Manuscripts, manages the peer-review process, designs the Journal covers, and develops policies and plans with our publisher, Oxford University Press. As AGA Manager, she assists the AGA President and Council in administering awards, conducting correspondence, managing the website and social media, and coordinating the annual symposium.
contact: theaga@theaga.org
Any questions? Contact the Managing Editor at theaga@theaga.org.
