New on F1000Research – 3 November 2014

A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article Plasmodium falciparum infection rates for some Anopheles spp. from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4in] Michelle R. Sanford, Anthony J. Cornel, Catelyn C. Nieman, Joao Dinis, Clare D.…

Allison Doupe

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing away of Allison Doupe, Section Head of the Behavioral Neuroscience Section, last week. Allison was a much-respected and beloved scholar. Among her many achievements, her pioneering work in the field of sensorimotor learning and how birds learn their songs led to the establishment of the…

Halloween competition: gruesome papers

“This vampire bat knows when you are sleeping, and it knows that you are you” … so begins one of my favourite recommendations on F1000 of the more gruesome papers. In it, Faculty Member Kent Berridge highlights research showing how vampire bats can recognize human breathing patterns well enough to keep coming back to feed…

F1000 Community Meet-up in Washington DC

For readers in the Washington, D.C. area: we’re coming to town and would like to invite you for a drink! F1000 Outreach Director Kinga Hosszu has more information about our meet-up on November 13 (Cross-posted from Naturally Selected). F1000 is holding its next meet-up event in Washington DC. Following on from the tradition of our…

New on F1000Research – 27 October 2014

Featured article Back to the drawing board: Re-thinking the role of GLI1 in pancreatic carcinogenesis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4du] Tara Hogenson, Matthias Lauth, Marina Pasca diMagliano, Martin Fernandez-Zapico The protein GLI1, is a well conserved transcriptional mediator of Hedgehog (HH) signaling, and regulates multiple cellular processes such as cell fate determination, tissue patterning, proliferation…

Open science news – 24 October 2014

Andres Delgado thinks some of the features of Medium would be perfectly suited to writing scientific articles. F1000Research Advisory Board member Victoria Stodden gave a seminar about reproducibility in computational science. A summary of the highlights of last week’s Open Science Days at the Max Planck Institute. Today is the first day of Mozfest, and…

New on F1000Research – 20 October 2014

Happy Open Access Week! Make sure to check out what we have planned this week, and join us later today for our Google Hangout. Featured article Commercial antibodies and their validation [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4jp] JLA Voskuil This week’s featured article is about the validation of commercial antibodies. It’s part of our newly launched…