Meet the preLighters: an interview with Tim Fessenden
Tim Fessenden is a postdoc in the Spranger Lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. He studies how immune cells put themselves in the right place at the right time to initiate anti-tumour immunity. We caught up with Tim…
| Posted on | 10 March 2020 |
preLighter Meng Zhu talks about her scientific journey
In celebration of preLights' second birthday, The Company of Biologists featured preLights on its WeChat channel, aiming to reach a broad Chinese audience. For one of the posts (which you can find here), Annabel Nicholson (Science Communications Officer at the company) visited preLighter Meng Zhu at The University of Cambridge to…
| Posted on | 25 February 2020 |
Preprints Workshop at Columbia University
On February 11th, the Postdoctoral Society at Columbia University held a Preprints Workshop to bring some clarity about this relatively new form of disseminating research findings. For this event, Sandra Franco, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, member of the Postdoctoral Society and also a preLighter, invited Samantha Hindle and…
| Posted on | 24 February 2020 |
Celebrating our second birthday!
preLights launched two years ago, and we’re thrilled to see how the platform has grown over this time. Our vibrant community of 180 early-career researchers and counting (we currently have an open call for new members to join) has written 600 preprint highlights. New initiatives such as preLists and authors commenting…
| Posted on | 20 February 2020 |
Call for new preLighters 2020
preLights, The Company of Biologists’ preprint highlighting service, is turning two years old later this month. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints in various fields. We are excited to now further grow our team of preLighters and are seeking…
| Posted on | 5 February 2020 |
Create preprint lists (preLists) on our website!
We launched preLists last year, and responding to the interest from the scientific community, we have now made it possible for any researcher (not just preLighters) to create either a topic-specific preprint list, or collect a list of preprints that were presented at a conference. (The posting of preprint highlights…
| Posted on | 20 January 2020 |