What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I’m the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences Library System. I provide training and consultation support on a wide range of publishing topics, such as disseminating all types of scholarly outputs, increasing research visibility, and ways to track and…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a graduate student at Ohio State University in the Molecular Genetics Department.  I study how organ development evolves in nematode worms. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? I am always excited to read the newest literature available…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am currently a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Elaine Fuchs at the Rockefeller University in New York. In my research I am interested in delineating cellular communication circuits between stem cells and their niche in the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your researchI am a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Sandra Siegert’s lab in the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). We are interested in understanding the interactions between microglia, a highly dynamic non-neuronal cell type that resides in the central nervous system, and the different…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am currently a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Wayne State University School of Medicine in in Detroit Michigan, USA. I work on understanding how mitochondrial metabolism in involved in the many pathophysiological processes and diseases such as neurodegeneration…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the field of biophysics at Leipzig University (Germany). The research I am involved in spans protein (mis-)folding in the context of Alzheimer’s disease (amyloid beta fibrils) and protein−carbohydrate interactions (carbohydrate-binding proteins) addressed by various biophysical techniques…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student who is about to defend my dissertation at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. I am working on the genetics of human diseases these past years, focusing on the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am Herchel research fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and my interest lies in biosynthetic enzymes and their role in secondary metabolite biosynthesis. My current research employs biophysical and computational approaches to understand a novel…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research. I am a PhD student at the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Currently, I work on fascinating regulatory mechanisms that can tune gene expression in our cells. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? I…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am an early career researcher interested in a scientific management role. I am a Research Associate at the University of Virginia in Wladek Minor’s laboratory.  Our research team is dedicated to understanding biological systems comprehensively by utilizing a…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am an aspiring public health bioinformatician. I currently work at the Helix Biogen Institute based in Nigeria, where I focus on using bioinformatics and molecular biology techniques and tools to develop interventions such as vaccines to diagnose, prevent…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an early career researcher and academic scientist at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I teach and conduct research on microbiomes, antimicrobial resistance and microbial biotechnology. I also have expertise in farming systems and sustainable agriculture.  Why did you choose…

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“Advancing the Culture of Peer Review with Preprints” – a Call to Action

Today, we’re happy to share a preprint written by a subset of the participants in December’s Recognizing Preprint Peer Review Meeting hosted by ASAPbio, HHMI and EMBO. It’s an exciting time for preprint review, with new services, models, and policies providing the foundation for a growing ecosystem. At the same time, the diversity in the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at Duke University. I research macrophage recruitment and function after injury and disease in lung alveoli, focusing on the interaction between cell populations and stem cells within the tissue during regeneration. Why did…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research Currently I work as Research Coordinator at the Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells (ADBS) Lab, at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS, Bangalore, India). Our lab focuses on stem cell models of…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research Born and raised in India, I am an early career researcher with a passion for cancer biology. After completing a PhD in molecular medicine from Ulm University, Germany, I returned to India to pursue a career in cancer research,…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student in School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research interest lies in scholarly communication where I study research data sharing and reuse. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? I am…