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
The Transmitter
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Leaving lasting marks with Tessa Montague
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Nicholette Zeliadt
9 February 2024 | 7 min read
Spotted around the web: INSAR; cerebellar gene expression; pangenome
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Jill Adams, Giorgia Guglielmi, Nicholette Zeliadt, Kristin Ozelli
12 May 2023 | 4 min read
Spotted around the web: Mapping histones; COVID-19 births; acetaminophen lawsuits
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Jill Adams, Katharine Gammon, Peter Hess, Nicholette Zeliadt
4 November 2022 | 3 min read
New diagnostic code for PTEN syndrome may spur research
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Nicholette Zeliadt
3 October 2022 | 4 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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