Iratxe Puebla and Francisco Silva Garcés This post has been cross-posted on the SciELO blog, in both Spanish and Portuguese. The first Iberoamerican Congress for Open Science took place on 23-24 November 2022, as a forum for Iberoamerican dialogue on the right to science and to promote change in how we understand science, from an…
Ogólne pytania Przesyłanie preprintów do serwerów preprintów “Scooping” Czym jest preprint? Preprint to naukowy manuskrypt dodany przez autorów na publiczny serwer. Preprint zawiera dane i metody, ale nie został jeszcze zaakceptowany przez czasopismo naukowe. Podczas gdy niektóre serwery przeprowadzają krótkie kontrole jakości (dla bardziej szczegółowych informacji na temat praktyk poszczególnych serwerów, zobacz asapbio.org/preprint-servers), manuskrypt autora…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I am currently a lecturer in Protein Therapeutics at the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast (UK). My research interests are in the use of synthetic approaches to modulate protein activity and address current unmet needs in human health. Why did you choose…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a senior postdoc fellow at the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, majoring in plant biology with expertise in protein homeostasis. I used Arabidopsis thaliana to mechanistically study ribosome behavior during translation and protein quality control inside the…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work Over the past three years, I have worked in the biotech industry. With a background in organic chemistry and synthetic biology, I leverage my expertise to develop innovative biotech tools, biomaterials and therapeutics. I am passionate about pushing the boundaries of biotech and…
This is the third in our series of posts highlighting the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner,’ which celebrates the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientific results. In this post, we hear from Livia Songster (University of California San Diego), the first author of the preprint ‘Woronin…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am a Junior Lecturer (Maître Assistant) working in the lab of Prof. Patrick Meraldi at Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. I am interested in understanding how the centrosome duplication is synchronised with the cell cycle. Desynchronisation of cell…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Universidad de Concepción (Chile) and I work mainly on drug design for neurodegenerative diseases within the systems pharmacology paradigm. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program?…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a molecular biologist and neuroscientist working as a postdoc in Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB). In our lab we are specially excited about understanding early stages of neurodegeneration by integrating multi-scale imaging techniques: from single-molecule to functional imaging. Why did…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work Currently I am working as an Editor for Molecular Oncology and FEBS Open Bio journals, published by FEBS Press and Wiley. I am interested in understanding how one can improve the peer review experience from the ‘inside’ but also how preprints can be…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am pursuing a PhD in the field of Cell and Developmental biology at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-Mumbai, India. I am looking at how communities of cells communicate amongst themselves within tissue and with other cells in neighbouring tissues to facilitate…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently an assistant professor in the department of biotechnology and Medical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, and Odisha, India. My research interest lies in the field of design and development of micro-devices by applying principles of biomimicry,…
This is the second in our series of posts highlighting the winners of the ASAPbio competition ‘Make your negative result a preprint winner,’ which celebrate the value of using preprints to share negative and inconclusive scientific results. In this post, we hear from Lilya Andrianova (University of Exeter Medical School & University of Glasgow), the first author…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I am the Director of Science Education Research for The Cuvette, a professional learning community and academic research journal dedicated to the advancement of science education. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? I chose to participate in the…
What is your current role? I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I am interested in developing therapeutics for protein-based neurodegenerative disorders. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? I chose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program since I believe such platforms provide better visibility…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol (UK) in the laboratory of Dr Helen Weavers. In the lab we use the humble fruit fly to understand how tissues withstand and/or repair the damage caused by toxic and harmful insults to…
What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am a public health specialist and social scientist. My broad professional interest is in helping to improve public/global health, improve scientific practices in Africa, and inform policy to shape the equitable, responsible, and beneficial participation of health and…