A guest post from Yajing Xu, a Neuroscience PhD student at UCL, funded by the Wellcome Trust Programme. Her research interests focus on the role of microglia in the postnatal development of the dorsal horn pain circuitries. She is keen to learn more about open science and how to improve the way we are doing science.
Vinodh Ilangovan is July’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He currently works as a Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Genes and Behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. In addition to being an F1000 Specialist, he also acts as an Open Access Ambassador at the Max Planck Society.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, we are delighted to announce that the 2nd Peer Review Week will be held from 19th to 25th September 2016. Peer Review Week is a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality. The event brings together individuals, institutions, and organizations…
F1000Prime celebrates its 15th birthday and so, to celebrate this auspicious occasion, Steven Lokwan, Director of Operations, takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane to reminisce on how we got to where we are today. My, how quickly time passes! It’s hard to believe, but there was a time before F1000Prime or, as we knew it…
Maria-Paz Ramos is June’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Einstein in NYC, working on stem cells and epigenetic transcriptional regulation. After living in the US for 8 years, she went back to Chile in order to contribute to the science progression in her country.
In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion in the biology research community about the potential of preprints as a tool to accelerate the dissemination of scientific results and ideas. Preprints in biology While preprints are well-established in other fields of science (particularly physics, mathematics and computer science through arXiv), they are still a…
Dr. Sylvia Samaniego is a Senior Scientist at LakePharma. As F1000 Specialist she has helped organize meet-ups and assisted F1000 at conferences, among many other things. Here we asked Sylvia about her experience. F1000 Specialists are PhD students, postdocs, clinicians and researchers who help their colleagues use F1000Prime, F1000Workspace and F1000Research, and spread the word…
I recently attended the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science in Amsterdam. Refreshingly (and speedily), on the day after the conference, a draft Call for Action was issued. The challenge is for the various working groups being convened by the EC to turn the Call into action.
Last month, we were delighted to announce the winners of the AFM Travel Grants for 2015. This month we are celebrating the hard work of our Faculty Members in recommending articles of merit by announcing the winners of our ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards and ‘Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year’ awards.
Jerome Korzelius is a researcher at the DKFZ in Germany. As F1000 Specialist he has presented talks, helped organize meet-ups, wrote blog posts, and much more. Here he tells about his experience. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up here.
