What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, NH. My research interest primarily focusses on ‘how various behavior arises?’ using Drosophila as a model organism, my study aims to discover the novel, conserved biological underpinnings of various behaviors. I hold…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I am an independent freelance consultant in scholarly communications and an open science advocate. I was most recently a member of the team running Europe PMC, before that a journal editor at PLOS for 10 years and initially a postdoc in developmental biology.…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I currently work as the Open Science Manager at the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUSF) as well as consulting on various other internal projects. As Open Science Manager I have spearheaded the development of a comprehensive Open Science Policy for FUSF-funded research that is…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoc in Dr. Clare Waterman’s lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. Currently, I am looking at how cancer cells migrate through very confined spaces and maintain polarity. Under high confinement and low adhesive environment cancer cells tend…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently a postdoc in Lab Alerta at Paulista School of Medicine/Federal University of São Paulo (EPM/UNIFESP), Brazil, working on antimicrobial resistance and bacterial infections. I am broadly interested in how bacterial pathogens evolve and adapt to different niches, and am fascinated…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. My work is focused on the brain’s locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system. I use behavioral, psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods to study how neuromodulation modulates attention and memory across the adult lifespan. I also study…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia). My team employs genome editing technology and pharmacological approaches to understand how cancer cell survival is controlled. What are you excited about in science communication? I love talking about science with my students at…
Blog post by Sarah Stryeck and Sandra Franco Iborra We are very happy to announce that the ASAPbio Community Action Group kicked off on March 15th. With this Community Action Group, ASAPbio is looking to support our community members in spreading the word about preprints within their institutions and communities and inspire them to take…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a 3rd Year PhD student at Institut Curie in the team of Bruno Goud. I joined Institut Curie in 2018 as a part of their international PhD program co-funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. My team is…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research Currently I am a postdoctoral researcher in University of Bern (in my 3rd year now). I am working on the regulation of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in zebrafish model. We basically work in a collaboration with 3 other labs (in Spain, Germany and USA),…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently pursuing a master degree in microbiology at Kenyatta University in Kenya. Myresearch involves virology in the area of HIV/AIDS with specific interest in co-infections of HIVand Hepatitis B among fishermen populations in Kenya, these populations have over the years recordedhigh…
The 2021 cohort of the ASAPbio Fellows program included 33 participants who worked on six projects, you can read more about the projects, their accomplishments and the 2021 Fellows below. 2021 ASAPbio Fellows’ projects Project ASAPbio Fellows Project items Organize an online event Gabriela Nogueira ViçosaNafisa JadavjiEider Valle-EncinasKeti ZekaOsman Aldirdiri ‘The impact of preprints for…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a student researcher with a focus in machine learning and artificial intelligence applications to the real world (ecology, climate, cryospheric sciences, etc.) What are you excited about in science communication? I believe that science communication is just as important as the…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I am a Chemistry Librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I teach courses in information literacy and design online educational materials for Chemistry students. I also prepare workshops and organize various outreach activities related to careers and education in chemical and…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research/your work Postdoctoral Researcher, Comprehensive Cancer Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Germany. My research focus is “understanding systemic effects of pancreatic cancer during tumour development and progression”. What are you excited about in science communication? I am mostly excited about the evaluation of…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an Assistant Professor at Midwestern University (Glendale, AZ, USA) in the Biomedical Sciences Program. My lab investigates the impact of nutrition on diseases of aging using preclinical models. What are you excited about in science communication? I really enjoy talking about…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a postdoc in Alex Dunn’s lab at Stanford University. I am interested in understanding the molecular and physical rules that cells use to build tissues and the higher order tissue structures that make up our organs. What are you excited about in…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoctoral scholar with Dr. Jason Stajich in the Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology at the University of California, Riverside. With Dr. Stajich, I am currently working on a variety of genomic, metagenomic and phylogenomic projects at the interface of both host…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) exploring de novo centriole biogenesis in land plants. Centrioles are eukaryotic organelles mostly known for their roles in the centrosome (the main microtubule organizing center in animal cells). However, centrioles also dock to the…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am Senior Scientific Researcher at Genentech Inc, working in the early discovery biochemistry department where I use robots and DNA-encoded technologies to identify peptide therapeutics. What are you excited about in science communication? I am keenly interested in experiments that disrupt the…