Channel: iBiology

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: ibiology.org/science-and-society/preprint Please enjoy our online Q&A (hosted on January 6th, 2021) discussing the benefits and limitations of preprints from the perspective of early-career scientists. Panelists included Jessica Polka, Elizabeth Silva (Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at UCSF and former editor at PLoS), and Kate Carbone (an industry postdoc). Speaker Biographies: Jessica Polka (ASAPbio) Dr. Jessica Polka is the Executive Director of ASAPbio, a non-profit organization that works to address the efficiency by which scientists share their results by promoting innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. Elizabeth Silva (UCSF) Elizabeth Silva is the Associate Dean of Graduate Program and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Elizabeth is a trained by biomedical research scientists with experience in science policy, particularly relating to publication and research ethics as well as an early career training. Prior to her current role, she was a senior editor at PLOS One and served as director of UCSF's Motivating INformed Decisions initiative which re-imagined the career development process for the future of the biomedical workforce. Kate Carbone (Industry postdoc) Kate Carbone is an industry postdoc and studies immune cell biology across scales, from biochemical reconstitution to in vivo tumor models. She's currently focusing on cancer immunology. She earned her PhD from UCSF in the lab of Ron Vale and published preprint papers as a grad student. At the company where she currently works, Kate leads a preprint journal club where she presents and summarizes different findings and discusses those results.