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Shang Su is the F1000 Specialist Contact at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has found a number of ways to reach out to the research community there, which you can read about in the interview below.

If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up here.

What kind of things have you done at Tsinghua University to tell people about F1000?

I first found out about F1000 between the years 2010 to 2011, when I was searching for a proper paper to discuss in Journal Club. Since then F1000 recommendations have  become my first choice for Journal Club. So I applied to become F1000 Specialist immediately when I saw a recruitment poster last winter. I began the work by distributing flyers of F1000Research in Tsinghua. Then I helped by promoting the newly launched F1000Workspace to the professors and students, basically through posters (which I translated to Chinese), presentations, and oral description. I also collaborated with the librarians in Tsinghua library to update the info and FAQ of F1000 in the lib navigation and introduce F1000 as an easy research tool.

Do you have any tips or advice for other F1000 Specialists?

I think specialists themselves benefit a lot from F1000 services. It is fantastic to share such wonderful things with your fellows. Roses given, fragrance in hand.

Finally, can you tell us in two sentences what your research project is about?

I am studying the cell-cycle regulation of the central transcriptional complex, beta-catenin/TCF in cellular Wnt signaling, trying to decipher the potential underlying mechanisms and significance.