F1000Prime celebrates its 15th birthday and so, to celebrate this auspicious occasion, Steven Lokwan, Director of Operations, takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane to reminisce on how we got to where we are today. My, how quickly time passes! It’s hard to believe, but there was a time before F1000Prime or, as we knew it…
We at F1000 are pleased to announce the appointment of Rebecca Lawrence as Managing Director. Rebecca was previously Managing Director of F1000Research, the open science publishing platform of F1000. During the 6 years Rebecca has worked at F1000, she has launched and established both F1000Research and F1000Posters (the open access repository of posters and slides,…
We’re pleased to announce that Nobel Laureate and former NIH Director Harold Varmus has been appointed as Chairman of F1000’s International Advisory Board. The International Advisory Board advises F1000 on broad policy issues and on our development of new products and services, and assists in selecting the Heads of Faculty who oversee each of the…
This is a guest post by Microbiology Associate Faculty Member Michelle Leach, University of Toronto, who recently spent a few weeks interning at the BBC Science department. Here, she tells us about her experience and what she learned about disseminating science to a broad lay audience.
We welcome William (Bill) Catterall to F1000 as a Head of Faculty for Pharmacology & Drug Discovery. Professor Catterall joins fellow Heads of Faculty Floyd Bloom, Paul Insel and Leslie Iversen in this role. Catterall is a professor and chair at the University of Washington, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and…
We are delighted to welcome eminent neurobiologist Professor Mu-ming Poo to the F1000 International Advisory Board. Mu-ming Poo is Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai and the Director of the CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology. He is also the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor…
Since January 2009, F1000 Faculty Members have expanded on the literature coverage of F1000Prime by writing concise, peer-reviewed reviews on emerging concepts and recent advances in biology and medicine. These articles were published in the open-access journal F1000Prime Reports until now. However, in order to enable these articles to benefit from the unique open-access, open…
F1000 Specialist Kirsten Lee is the host of our next #F1000talks tweetchat, which takes place tomorrow (Wednesday April 15), 1 PM EST/6 PM GMT on the @F1000 channel. Here we get to know a little more about her. Kirsten is a neuroscientist, an F1000 Specialist, a beginner cyclist, and a foursquare super user. Currently, she’s…
We had a lot of fun attending #EB2015 in Boston. We met many old friends and made firm new ones, including #EBmouse. Here are our highlights from the conference…
So that’s it! SfN is over and done with for another year. We’ve loved meeting all of you who visited our booth, we’ve given away F1000 and F1000Research #SfNswag and we had a fantastic time at #SfNBanter, which we sponsored this year.
