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.
We are currently working with a wide range of life science societies and individual conferences to help them increase the visibility of their posters and slide presentations (International Society of Computational Biology, Ecological Society of America and the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping to name but a few). Some of our collaborators have their poster…
There is a sense amongst a select group of individuals that the tide is turning with respect to how and when research should be made available. Last month our founder Vitek Tracz joined a mix of academics, publishers and funders who all convened at the well-publicised ASAPBio meeting to discuss the best ways in which…
F1000 award season is upon us again! Each year, we celebrate the work of our Associate Faculty Members (AFMs) by picking the winners of our AFM Travel Grant Awards. These awards are our way of acknowledging the significant and valuable contribution AFMs make evaluating the literature for F1000Prime. Any AFM who has published six or…
Earlier this month, the F1000 team (Cesar Berrios-Otero, Outreach Director, Melanie Goldate, Business Development Manager, and myself) headed to Los Angeles, CA for the 60th Annual Biophysical Society meeting. The event is the world’s largest meeting in the biophysics field, with an attendance of over 7000 international scientists. We were very excited to show the…
This is a guest post by F1000 Faculty Member Ferdinando Boero. Dr. Boero’s post is a commentary on a previously published article, Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Living, Liu MJ, Xiong CH, Xiong L, Huang XL. PLoS ONE 2016; 11(1):e0146193.
Jorge Galindo-Villegas is a postdoc and the F1000 Specialist at the University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain. In the interview below, he tells about what aspects of being an F1000 Specialist he finds most rewarding. If you’d like to become an F1000 Specialist yourself, and tell your own colleagues about F1000, you can sign up…
This is a guest post by Dr Mehwaesh Islam, Policy Officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK.
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The Brain Prize, awarded annually by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, recognizes one or more scientists for their outstanding contribution to neuroscience, and is widely regarded as the equivalent for the Nobel Prize for neuroscientists. 2016’s Brain Prize is shared by three winners, and we’re delighted to congratulate F1000 Faculty Member Graham Collingridge,…
