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In the next few weeks, F1000 staff and guest speakers will be presenting our various products in different cities in the UK and US and attending a number of conferences. As usual, you can expect to see some of our staff exhibiting at major scientific conferences, but we have a few extra events planned as well.

Most notably, F1000Research is hosting a reception during the Experimental Biology (EB) meeting in Boston. We will be joined by a team of amazing speakers, who will discuss the importance of open, rapid, post-publication peer review. This event is free to attend, so if you’re in the Boston area or visiting for the EB conference, we hope to see you there. We ask that you register beforehand, so we know how many people to expect.

The complete list of events at the time of writing – we’re rapidly adding new dates – is below. You’ll notice a few talks at universities. These are educational talks discussing developments and problems in scholarly publishing, in the context of what F1000 is doing to help change science communication for better. We’ll cover topics like innovations in peer review; data sharing; new measures of research impact; and tools for keeping up with the scientific literature. These talks are aimed at graduate students and postdocs, and should stimulate discussions about the ways we publish and read about research – now and in the future. This is an initiative of Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and myself (Eva Amsen), as part of our recently-appointed roles as Outreach Directors for F1000Prime and F1000Research, respectively.

April 15 – ScienceOnlineBeantown (F1000Research) (registration page)
April 16 – MIT Picower institute (F1000Research, talk: “Speeding up scientific publication and peer review”)
April 17 – Harvard Medical School (F1000Research, talk: “Sharing data, reducing bias and enhancing research papers”)
April 18 – Harvard/MIT HST program (F1000Research, talk: “Speeding up scientific publication and peer review”)
April 19 – Brandeis University (F1000Research, talk: “Sharing data, reducing bias and enhancing research papers”)
April 21-23 – Experimental Biology [Booth: 534]
April 22 – F1000Research event at Experimental Biology. “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”.  Speakers: Lawrence Kane, Keith Flaherty, Stephen Hyman, Sue Griffin, Gary Borisy, Vitek Tracz. (Open to non-conference attendees. Free to attend, but please register in advance.)
April 24 – Oxford Open Science, Oxford e-Research Centre (F1000Prime, talk: “Altmetrics: Can we drop the ‘alternative’?”)
May 1 –Biology postgraduate poster day, University of Sheffield, Firth Hall
May 8 – University of Bath, UK (F1000Research, talk: “Sharing data, reducing bias and enhancing research papers”) – *New – added 25th April 2013*
May 10 – Manchester Life Sciences PhD Conference, University of Manchester, UK *New – added 25th April 2013*
May 17 – EBI, Hinxton, UK (F1000Research, guest talk by Alex Bateman)
May 17 – University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz campus (F1000Research, talk: “Sharing data, reducing bias and enhancing research papers”)
May 19 – 21 – American Society of Microbiology [Booth: 532]
May 31  – Young Embryologists Meeting, London, UK
May 31 – University of Sheffield, Department of Cardiovascular Science (F1000Prime, talk: “Measuring research impact on the web”) *New – added 16th May 2013*
June 5 – University of Oxford, Deptarment of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (F1000Prime, talk: “What’s the impact of your research?”) *New – added 16th May 2013*
June 13 – EMBL Heidelberg Career Options Day, Germany (F1000Prime, career talk: “From the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of 1000”) *New – added 25th April 2013*
June 26 – University of Sheffield, Department of Biomedical Science Postdoc Away Day (F1000Research, talk: “Sharing data, reducing bias and enhancing research papers”) *New – added 16th May 2013*

If your institute or city is not on our list – yet – but you would like us to visit, please contact us and we’ll see if we can arrange something. We’re based in London, UK, but often on the road, and especially keen to hear from representatives of postgraduate societies at life science research institutions.

We hope to see you at one of our visits!