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…
Hot on the heels of announcing our first society channel with the ISCB, we are equally as delighted to reveal we will be partnering with the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) to publish a new channel called the INCF Community journal, which will launch in August [See press release]. Now becoming an established field that…
This week we are very excited to announce our first publishing partnership with a prestigious academic society. From July, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) will have its own dedicated channel on F1000Research for the ISCB Community Journal. [See press release]. F1000 has always had a fruitful relationship with the computational biology community, and…
Ruth Lehmann works at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University, and is a Section Head of the Morphogenesis and Cell Biology Section of the Developmental Biology Faculty. Kathleen Wets, Publisher for F1000, recently caught up with her. Another thing I find intriguing with germs cells is that, when they start to migrate,…
F1000 Specialist Kirsten KyungWha Lee will be hosting the #F1000talks tweet chat on @F1000 next week. Kirsten is a neuroscientist at the City University of New York, currently investigating glutamate transporter-mediated synaptic clearance. She is a beginner cyclist and a foursquare super user. You can connect with her on Twitter (@ScienceJobNYC) and LinkedIn.
April is F1000 awards season: yesterday we announced the winners of the AFM Travel Grants, and today, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards and ‘Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year‘ awards – these awards allow us to celebrate the hard work of our Faculty Members. Every…
We’ll be at EB 2015 AND we’re holding a Boston meet-up!
Today, we are very pleased to highlight some exciting new data with regards to genome sequencing. We have just published a short research paper from the Bader lab at the University of Toronto providing the first public example of the Oxford MinION nanopore sequencer being evaluated for utility in the clinic. For those not familiar…
This is a cross-post from F1000Research, written by Eva Amsen. For the past few weeks, the F1000 Outreach Directors have looked at lists of all of your past activities to figure out who deserved to be crowned this year’s F1000 Specialist of the Year. The decision was much harder than last year because so many…
As it’s International Coffee Day today, it seems appropriate to highlight the plethora of research papers highlighted on F1000Prime that examine the benefits (or not) of coffee. And there are many, as a simple search of the F1000Prime site reveals. Indeed, not only may coffee reduce the risk of urolithiasis, it could also provide some…
