Meet the preLighters: Baheerathan Murugavel
Baheerathan Murugavel is a PhD student in the lab of Professor Hema Somanathan at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM). His research focuses on the visual ecology of fruit-feeding bats in southern India, and he has written several preLights posts on research related to bat…
| Posted on | 1 December 2021 |
Preprints in Motion recent episodes: November 2021
The Preprints in Motion podcast was launched by preLighters Jonny Coates and Emma Wilson earlier this year. Thanks to Emma for updating us on their recent episodes: Episode 13 - Mice in Space: Characterizing Mouse Skeletal Muscles After 35-37 Days of Spaceflight This week we talk to Jessica L Braun ,a…
| Posted on | 25 November 2021 |
preLights talks to Sarvenaz Sarabipour
Sarvenaz Sarabipour is an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA. She received her PhD in Engineering also from Johns Hopkins University, and her research focuses on receptor signalling networks at the cell and tissue level. As well as her scientific interests, she is an active advocate…
| Posted on | 15 November 2021 |
Preprints in Motion recent episodes: October 2021
The Preprints in Motion podcast was launched by preLighters Jonny Coates and Emma Wilson earlier this year. Thanks to Emma for updating us on their recent episodes: Episode 09: Incorrect Nucleotide Sequences are Unacceptably Frequent Within Scientific Literature In episode 09 we discuss how published nucleotide sequences are not always…
| Posted on | 1 November 2021 |
preLights x FocalPlane posts now published
At the end of September we hosted our first preLights x FocalPlane social writing event. Helen and Esperanza, the Community Managers for preLights and FocalPlane, respectively, selected two microscopy-related preprints from different fields: parasitology and neuroscience. Having read the preprints in advance of the event, the preLighters split into two…
| Posted on | 27 October 2021 |
preLights talks to Professor Christopher Jackson
preLights talks to Chris Jackson Chris Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Geoscience at the University of Manchester, UK. Alongside his research career, you might recognise him from his TV work: he presented The Royal Institution’s 2019 Christmas Lectures as well as BBC2’s Expedition Volcano, which showed him descending into Mount…
| Posted on | 25 October 2021 |