Featured F1000 Specialist September 2015

Adriana Bankston is a postdoc at the University of Louisville. Recently, she arranged for F1000 Outreach Director Kinga Hosszu to speak as part of a career seminar series. This is a longer version of an interview that was included in this month’s newsletter for F1000 Specialists.   Can you tell us a bit about the…

Section Head accolades

In recent weeks, a handful of awards and honours have been bestowed on some of our wonderful F1000 Section Heads. Here, we celebrate their achievements.

Lasker awards 2015

Termed the ‘pre-Nobels’ because 50% of award winners go on to win a Nobel Prize, the 2015 Lasker awards were announced yesterday. I am pleased to say that two F1000 Faculty are among the recipients!   Professor Stephen Elledge from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s hospital, and an F1000 Faculty Member in…

F1000 meet-up in Paris

Researchers in Paris – mark your calendars! On October 1st, we will be in your beautiful city to host an F1000 meet-up. This is an opportunity for you to find out a bit more about F1000, have some drinks and food on us, and meet other researchers from institutes in the area. We’ve previously held…

Sue Malcolm

We’re extremely sad to report that Medical Genetics Faculty Member Sue Malcolm passed away in late August. Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, Sue was an active Member of F1000 since its inception in 2001. In 2011, she won the F1000 Faculty Member of the Year Award…

Antibiotic resistance, genetic sniff tests and anxiety disorders – Twitter roundup

Fighting the fear: introducing novelty facilitated extinction as a potential treatment for anxiety disorders https://t.co/na4ZmbrRLF — F1000 (@F1000) August 24, 2015 Too clean for our own good? Common use of biocides (disinfectants) may be worsening the antibiotic resistance crisis https://t.co/NBnAQgPmtZ — F1000 (@F1000) August 27, 2015 Perception is everything: a new test where a quick…

Lynn Kamerlin and Klaudia Szeler

Biocatalysis Faculty Member Lynn Kamerlin and her Associate Faculty Member Klaudia Szeler came to visit us in the F1000 London office. Both are from Uppsala University, Sweden, where Lynn is an Associate Professor of Structural Biology. In the video below, Lynn and Klaudia talk about their research in computational biology, research that sits at the…