Call for new preLighters
preLights, The Company of Biologist’s preprint highlighting service, recently celebrated its third birthday. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints across diverse fields. Over the last three years we have had over 1000 preLights posts published on the site, and…
| Posted on | 7 April 2021 |
Preprints by preLighters – Pablo Ranea-Robles
Pablo Ranea-Robles is a postdoctoral fellow at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where he investigates lipid metabolism inside the cell. He has been a preLighter since the beginning of 2019, and has highlighted a number of preprints covering various aspects of metabolism. Pablo recently posted a…
| Posted on | 25 March 2021 |
Meet Helen Robertson, the new preLights Community Manager
Hello everyone! My name is Helen and I’m happy to introduce myself as the new preLights Community Manager. preLights is a brilliant resource for navigating preprints and encouraging discussion about new science, and I’m excited to build on the preLights website and community that Máté has led for the last…
| Posted on | 23 March 2021 |
Preprints by preLighters – Mariana De Niz
Mariana De Niz is our most active preLighter; she's written an incredible 100(!) preLight posts and has participated in various other projects around preprints and preLights. Last year we caught up with Mariana to learn more about her scientific journey (read the interview). Mariana recently posted her own work on bioRxiv:…
| Posted on | 22 March 2021 |
Preprints by preLighters: Clarice Hong
Clarice Hong is a graduate student in Barak Cohen’s lab at Washington University in St Louis, where she studies how cis-regulatory sequences work together to control gene expression. She has been an active preLighter since mid-2018, and has written ten preprint highlights so far covering various aspects of gene regulation. Clarice recently…
| Posted on | 16 March 2021 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Jennifer Ann Black
Jennifer Ann Black is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof Luiz Tosi's lab at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she studies replication stress and genome plasticity in Leishmania. Prior to this, she completed her PhD at the Wellcome Center for Integrative Parasitology (University of Glasgow) under the supervision…
| Posted on | 26 February 2021 |