We are delighted to congratulate Michael Levitt, F1000Prime Faculty Member in Structural Biology, on receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Levitt, who is currently based at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is well known for his pioneering work in computational structural biology, receives this accolade jointly with Arieh Warshel, former Faculty…
Open Access Week Open Access Week is an annual, global event, promoting open access publishing. Each year, talks or discussions about open access are planned at institutes around the world. This year, Open Access Week is from October 21 to 27, and F1000Research will be travelling to several institutes to talk about our publishing model.…
As most US Government institutions are currently closed due to the lapse in government funding (the ‘shutdown’), there may be some delays in the reviewing of papers published in F1000Research. Any reviewers employed by US Government agencies and institutes who have agreed to review articles prior to the shutdown on 1 October will not be…
We are delighted to be able to congratulate Randy Schekman, one of the Heads of Faculty for Cell Biology at F1000Prime, on being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professor Schekman was awarded the prize jointly with James Rothman and former F1000Prime Faculty Member Thomas Südhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating…
A round-up of the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as the other stories that caught our eye…
Vitek Tracz, our chairman, founder and all-round science publishing firebrand, has been interviewed by Science in their latest issue: Communication in Science Pressure and Predators. The interview provides an insight into the man who has become famous for his experimental approach to scientific publishing and his willingness to challenge the status quo. In the interview,…
Faculty of 1000 Chairman Vitek Tracz reveals in an interview published today in Science Magazine much of what is driving the development of F1000’s services for life scientists and clinicians. In short, it’s solutions – solutions to long-established problems in scholarly communication, which, with better more efficient use of web technology, are solvable: 1. Better…
Faculty of 1000 look forward to welcoming local members of the F1000 Community to our inaugural meet-up, here in London. This is a free networking evening, aimed at junior researchers, to share with you the latest developments at F1000, and introduce the F1000 Specialists programme. The F1000 Community includes Faculty Members and Associate Faculty Members;…
Congratulations to F1000Prime Hematology Faculty Member Eirini Papapetrou on receiving the New Scholar Award in Aging from the Ellison Medical Foundation for Haploinsufficiency of protein-coding genes as an age-related disease mechanism. The New Scholars in Aging Award is given to candidates selected from medical institutions in the US on an invitation-only basis. The award supports…
A round-up of this week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well as some other interesting picks from Twitter…
