What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research Currently, I am a group leader at IRIBHM, ULB in Brussels, Belgium. I lead a group of three amazing PhD students and one irreplaceable technician. Our group works uses zebrafish as a model system and works on understanding how cells within a tissue…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research/your work I am a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Jack Szostak at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. I am broadly interested in the molecular mechanisms of RNA in a prebiotic environment. In my research, I use computational simulations to understand the…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a research scientist at Columbia University Medical Center. I use a combination of biochemical and cell-based approaches to investigate how cells respond to agents that damage the chromosomes and how malfunction of these repair mechanisms contribute to cancer of neurodegenerative diseases.…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an early career researcher and inventor interested in how external inputs shape the behaviour of epithelial cells and how this knowledge can be used to improve human health. My PhD research in Cardiff University (the UK) gravitated around the enhancement of…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I am currently a Research and Instruction Librarian at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. What are you excited about in science communication? Science communication is expanding exponentially. There are so many ways to find new data and research. It is important to help researchers figure out…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I just started as a postdoctoral research associate at the CDFD, India. We are broadly interested in understanding how chromatin (histone post-translational modifications and transcription) works through the mammalian cell cycle; which often goes haywire in pathological conditions like in cancer cells. Earlier,…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently working as a postdoctoral research and development scientist for Solvotrin Therapeutics based in Trinity College Dublin. My job is concentrated on small molecule drug design and development for T-cell lymphomas but involves a broad spectrum of disciplines including medicinal chemistry,…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student studying the sequence of events leading to the establishment of transcription in the nuclear space of the developing embryo. What are you excited about in science communication? Making science and the ‘scientific method’ accessible and understandable to lots…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pretoria. I specialize in tree health and protection. The focus of my current research is identifying the potential contamination sources of root rot pathogens (e.g. Phytophthora spp.) in citrus nurseries in South Africa. What are…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research In my main occupation, I am currently a senior academic staff at the Molecular Genetics Informatics (MGI), Department of Anatomy, Bauchi State University, Nigeria. My work primarily involves deciphering the regulatory pathways that drive tumour recurrence and progression as well as dissecting the…
Today, as described in Project Coordinator Jigisha’s Patel opinion piece in The Scientist, we’re pleased to share a series of resources and guidelines emerging from our work on the representation of preprints to broad audiences. These infographics summarize more detailed documents drafted by working groups who considered how to preprint servers, researchers, institutions, and journalists…
Blog post by Sónia Gomes Pereira As scientists, we spend a great deal of time obsessing about a particular subject, sometimes crossing the thin line of what is recommended or healthy… Yet, publishing an article takes several months or even years of revisions, only to – more often than not – result in little changes…
Sincères remerciements à Denis Bourguet, Thomas Guillemaud et Fabio Palmieri pour leur aide avec cette traduction. La page FAQ ASAPbio en anglais est disponible ici: https://asapbio.org/preprint-info/preprint-faq. Si vous avez des questions ou des suggestions concernant la traduction, veuillez nous écrire à iratxe.puebla@asapbio.org. Questions fréquemment posées sur les preprints Qu’est-ce qu’un preprint ? Les preprints sont-ils compatibles…
ASAPbio is seeking two new members for our Board of Directors. With these openings, we aim to 1) improve the racial and ethnic diversity of our board, and 2) include the voice of research trainees, such as graduate students and postdocs. We are also interested in increasing representation from outside the US and beyond cell…
We’re thrilled to announce that the 2021 cycle of the ASAPbio Fellow program is now open for applications. Interested in preprints? Looking to develop your own preprint initiative? Keen to connect with others interested in science communication? Then the ASAPbio Fellow program is for you! The ASAPbio Fellows program runs for six months and provides…
The 2020 cohort of the ASAPbio Fellows program included 26 participants who worked on six projects, you can read more about the projects, their accomplishments and the 2020 Fellows below. Interested in the ASAPbio Fellows program? You can read more about the program on the Handbook, or contact Iratxe at iratxe.puebla@asapbio.org with any questions. 2020…
On January 14th, 2021, ASAPbio hosted the #PreprintsInThePublicEye: Challenges and Solutions in an Age of Misinformation event. With speakers from the worlds of preprints, academia, and journalism, the event sought to highlight the problem of misinformation and the misrepresentation of research in the context of preprints and COVID-19. We asked, how can we know what…
Blog post by ASAPbio Fellow Mafalda Pimentel Having to isolate due to a pandemic can also have some silver linings. Forcefully away from the bench, I had no more excuses to evade a question I had been increasingly interested in – how are preprints shaping the present and future of science? Not long after I…
Last week we ran Twitter polls for preprint servers, research institutions, researchers and journalists to provide feedback on the outcomes of the Preprints in the Public Eye project. The project aim is to encourage the responsible reporting of research to avoid its misrepresentation or misinterpretation. The project involves stakeholders representing researchers, institutions, preprint servers, publishers…
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established as the first open access repository for biological data, and the datasets it hosts have been invaluable to research in fundamental biology and the understanding of health and disease. Just this month, we witnessed the announcement of the AlphaFold2 results toward structure prediction, made possible thanks to the…