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Towards the end of last year, we were busy attending several conferences around the globe. In this blog, we are giving you a roundup of where our F1000 team went and what the highlights of these conferences were. Stay tuned for a list of upcoming conference attendances.

Neuroscience 2016

From November 12^th – 16^th we had the pleasure of exhibiting at Neuroscience 2016 in sunny San Diego. With over 30,300 attendees, SfN’s annual conference is one of the largest scientific gatherings in the world. Its sheer size gave us the opportunity to meet great number of interesting neuroscientists working in a diverse range of disciplines and learn more about their pioneering research.

The conference was also the stage for the announcement of two major advances: the use of a wireless module that enabled paralyzed Rhesus macaques to walk again and a brain implant that enabled an ALS patient with Locked-In syndrome to communicate by typing letters onto a screen with her mind.

The INCF (who have a Neuroinformatics channel on our platform) deserve a special mention for their role in the heartbeat of the SfN social scene, hosting fascinating socials on connectomics and online tools for data sharing and outreach, as well as co-hosting an unforgettable evening at this year’s science-light, fun-heavy SfN Banter social. We hope to see you again in Washington DC this year!

OpenCon Berlin 2016

Following close on the heels of OpenCon 2016 in Washington DC, Publishing Editor Holly Murray attended a satellite event held in Berlin on the 24-26^th November. OpenCon Berlin 2016 brought together students, early career academics, and professionals and focussed on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data to empower the next generation to promote openness in research and education. Alongside a reproducibility hackathon, an Open Data platform panel discussion, and several interesting talks, keynote speaker Julie Reda MEP Pirate Party discussed her mission to reform copyright laws to better serve universities and libraries. Holly took the opportunity   to share our vision on the future of Open Science publishing. You can find Holly’s slides on F1000Research.

Philo­sophy and His­tory of Open Sci­ence Meeting

Our publisher Michael Markie gave a presentation at the Philo­sophy and His­tory of Open Sci­ence Meeting in Helsinki, Finland. The conference was the coming together of contemporary open science advocates and scholars to discuss particular themes relevant to openness in contemporary research practice. These themes included reproducibility, transparency, reusability, politics of science, and other topics as well as their historical roots, in order to gain a broader perspective on these issues and answer the question: What is the overall significance of the open science movement and what are, if any, the historical roots and varieties of this movement? Michael was asked to talk about open peer review and how the F1000Research publishing platform could be an answer to the potential future of open research publishing – his slides can be found here.

Computational & Molecular Biology Symposium

At the beginning of December, our Outreach Manager Maaike Pols gave a seminar about F1000’s platforms at the Computational & Molecular Biology Symposium 2016 at the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research in University College Dublin (UCD), which was jointly organised by PhD students from the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Computational Infection Biology programs. The event was set up to showcase the thriving local research and scientific community at UCD and Dublin to Irish and international academic researchers and industry. It also featured internationally renowned keynote speakers from a wide range of fields within the sphere of computational and molecular biology to present their research.