Nicholette Zeliadt.

Nicholette Zeliadt

Managing editor
The Transmitter

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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.

From this contributor

Portrait of scientist Tessa Montague standing next to an aquatic tank. A spray of black ink shoots onto her lab coat from off-camera.
Craft and careers

Leaving lasting marks with Tessa Montague

By Nicholette Zeliadt
9 February 2024 | 7 min read
Illustration of an open journal featuring lines of text and small illustrations of eyes and mouths.
Spectrum

Spotted around the web: INSAR; cerebellar gene expression; pangenome

By Jill Adams, Giorgia Guglielmi, Nicholette Zeliadt, Kristin Ozelli
12 May 2023 | 4 min read
Spectrum

Spotted around the web: Mapping histones; COVID-19 births; acetaminophen lawsuits

By Jill Adams, Katharine Gammon, Peter Hess, Nicholette Zeliadt
4 November 2022 | 3 min read
A woman in a lab coat types at a computer.
Spectrum Microphone

New diagnostic code for PTEN syndrome may spur research

By Nicholette Zeliadt
3 October 2022 | 4 min read
DNA helix inside the human body
Spectrum Microphone

Autism genetics, explained

By Nicholette Zeliadt
28 May 2021 | 5 min read

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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