The American Chemical Society recently announced the recipients of the 2015 National Awards, and we are pleased to be able to say that two of those recipients are from the F1000 Faculty. Professor Eric Kool, an F1000 Section Head in Chemical Biology, wins the 2015 Ronald Breslow Award for outstanding contributions to the field of…
A round up of the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of the Twitterverse…
Head of Faculty Philip Ingham has been awarded the 2014 Waddington medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB). Ingham is the Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore, and has been with F1000 since its birth in 2011. The Waddington medal is…
Last month, we launched a video competition for F1000 Specialists. The competition is open until the end of the month, so I’ve rallied in Outreach Coordinator and F1000 Specialists Manager Antonia Desmond to create her own short video about her journey from PhD to F1000. This short video is all that’s needed to enter the…
We are looking forward to the BioConference Live Genetics and Genomics virtual event on August 20th and 21st. Our booth will be open around the clock, but if you drop by between 11-12PM or 2-3PM EST, our resident scientists will be in attendance to answer your questions. Come learn about how F1000 can help you…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
Recently, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the F1000 Specialists programme, we invited all Specialists to participate in a video competition, i.e. submit a short video of the research that goes on in their lab. We’re rewarding each video with a £10 Amazon voucher, with a further chance to win a £50 voucher for being…
Our congratulations to F1000 Section Head Tony Hunter, who has been awarded the 2014 Royal Medal for biological sciences by the Royal Society. Tony Hunter is director of Salk’s NCI-designated Cancer Center and has been on the F1000 Faculty since its conception in 2001*. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society and a…
We are delighted to welcome Michael Eisen to F1000’s International Advisory Board. Michael Eisen initially joined F1000 in September 2001 as a Faculty Member in the Genomics & Genetics Faculty. Best known for being a co-founder of PLOS (Public Library of Science) in 2000, he is also a professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at…
The researcher stared at a writhing star-shaped mass of tentacle-like appendages, each with a mouth and teeth, and with a few of these severing themselves in half and carrying on individually … Readers would be forgiven for assuming this was the sighting of a cosmic entity at the end of a Lovecraft novella, except the…
