We’re pleased to congratulate the following five F1000 members who are among the first fifteen joint Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigators. This is a joint initiative supporting basic plant science research. The two organizations are investing a total of US$75 million over the five years of the initial appointments,…
“Research is one of the most exciting ways to spend your time” — Jo Handelsman How do you study the genomes of organisms that can’t be grown in the lab? Jo Handelsman at Yale is interested in the impact of small molecules produced by microbes, or their hosts, on the nature and robustness of microbial…
A piece of basic research made it into even mainstream news sites yesterday: the finding that the peptide thymosin ß4 can prime adult cardiac epithelium to produce new muscle cells after a heart attack. Getting the heart to regenerate itself after injury is a goal of the British Heart Foundation’s campaign to ‘Mend Broken Hearts’,…
We’d like to extend our congratulations to the F1000 Members who are in the 2011 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Section Heads Katherine High – Hematology Talmadge Everett King Jr – Respiratory Disorders Peter Reich – Ecology Kevan Shokat – Chemical Biology Marvin Wickens – Cell Biology Faculty Members Robert Colwell…
As well as the usual crop of interesting evaluations this week (see our Facebook page for some free links) there have been a couple of comments about papers and their evaluations. David Enard of Stanford University responds to an evaluation of his own paper, Human and non-human primate genomes share hotspots of positive selection10.1371/journal.pgen.1000840. In…
The Royal Society has just announced its new Fellows for 2011. We’re pleased to congratulate the following F1000 Members on their election: Professor Alun M. Davies FRS, Neuroscience Section Head Professor Nick Peter Franks FRS, Anesthesiology & Pain Management Dr Patrick Tam FRS, Developmental biology Professor Angela Vincent FRS, Neuroscience Faculty Head Professor Joanne Chory…
Time for a quick roundup of some of the conversations happening regarding F1000-evaluated papers. All evaluations in this post are free to access without a subscription. First, Oscar Marin from Alicante points out that a paper in Nature that he selected and evaluated has some potential irregularities in the figures. The paper in question purports…
Rudolf Jaenisch and Bob Waterston have recently joined F1000 as Heads of Faculty for Genomics & Genetics. Rudolf Jaenisch is a Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute and a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge USA. He is credited with creating the first transgenic animal model, and his work currently…
In addition to Philip Beales, we have another three F1000 Members who have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences: Andrew King, Professor of Neurophysiology in Oxford, Section Head Nick Morrell, Professor of Cardiopulmonary Medicine in Cambridge, and Giampietro Schiavo, who runs a Cancer Research UK-funded group at the London Research Institute (and…
Via UCL News, four scientists at University College London have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. We’re pleased to report that one of them, Professor Philip Beales, is also an F1000 Member. Philip works on conditions arising from defects in cilia structure and function, in an attempt to understand the role of…
