We’re pleased to welcome Bruce McEwen as joint Head of Physiology. Bruce joins Allen Cowley and Denis Noble, and we look forward to his continued work on behalf of Faculty of 1000.
In case you missed it (what do you mean, you don’t read our press releases?), we’re delighted to announce that Gary Borisy has been promoted to Head of Faculty in F1000 Cell Biology, joining Alan Hall, Randy Schekman, Steve McKnight and Tony Pawson. Gary Borisy is currently Director and CEO at the Woods Hole Marine…
Professor Sophie Scott is at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. She is interested in the neurobiology of speech perception, including the evolution of speech and recovery from aphasia (see all evaluations related to aphasia on the F1000 website). She works on on dyslexia and processing of emotional information in the voice, and…
A comment thread on one of The Scientist articles gives me the opportunity to mention F1000 Factors. Hidden away in our about pages there’s an explanation of how we calculate the F1000 Factor for evaluated articles. As it says there, Faculty Members rate each article ‘Recommended’, ‘Must Read’ or ‘Exceptional’. These correspond to a number,…
We’re pleased to be able to offer congratulations to two of our Faculty Members, who have been selected to be EMBO Young Investigators: Aurelio Teleman, FM in Developmental Biology, at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Daniel Wilson, FM in Structural Biology, at Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich.
Faculty Member Etienne Joly has been busy lately, evaluating everything from a classic text on evolution to the adjuvant effect of laser light. I sent him a Naturally Selected sweatshirt for other bits of material he provided for The Scientist and this blog, and here he is, wearing it (keep reading for your chance to…
Where should we concentrate conservation efforts? Back in January, Kevin Gaston at the University of Sheffield argued in Science that conservation efforts should be directed towards common species as well as the ‘obvious’, rare and ‘threatened’ ones1. The argument is beguilingly simple. In the absence of a detailed understanding of what each species does in…
Wolf Frommer is one of our Section Heads in Plant Biochemistry & Physiology. He is interested in sugar transport across the plant plasma membrane, and the sensors at the plasma membrane that regulate transporter activity and turnover. In this week’s Nature, a paper from Wolf’s group describes a new family of transporters, named SWEET, that…
I had the pleasure of talking with Doug Erwin a little while back. Doug is Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and a Faculty Member in Developmental Evolution. We were discussing a paper on the genome of a marine sponge, evaluated in F1000 and selected for our ‘Literature’ section…
More from the Society for Neuroscience meeting: Faculty Member David Adams is director of the Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne. His research on cone snail venom has led to development of a new analgesic against neuropathic pain. Cone snail toxins—conotoxins—are small peptides. David’s group engineered a proteolysis-resistant version by cyclizing alpha-conotoxin Vc1.11, which…
