preLights in 2020
Looking back at 2020, we have a lot to thank our preLighter community and our readers! It was our busiest year since launch with 434 preLight posts, and we were thrilled that 251 of them contained an author’s response. The preLighters were also busy with projects related to COVID-19 preprints,…
| Posted on | 1 January 2021 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Sundar Naganathan
Sundar Naganathan is a postdoc at EPFL Lausanne in the lab of Prof Andrew Oates. Here, he studies the biophysical mechanisms of symmetry establishment using zebrafish. We caught up with Sundar to discuss his research, scientific career, and his community activities which involve being a preLighter. Let’s…
| Posted on | 8 December 2020 |
Updating and automating the covidpreprints.com website during the eLife Sprint 2020
By Zhang-He Goh, Jonny Coates, Hugo Gruson Cross-posted with rOpenSci At the eLife Sprint in September 2020, we revamped the covidpreprints.com website, which aims at featuring landmark preprints on a timeline of the pandemic. The birth of the project The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to about 35 million…
| Posted on | 13 October 2020 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Zhang-He Goh
Zhang-He Goh is a new PhD student in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge's Syntech CDT. He completed his undergraduate studies and research at the National University of Singapore and A*STAR, where his main research projects were focussed on tuberculosis and reducing the side-effects of anti-tuberculosis drugs. We caught up…
| Posted on | 12 October 2020 |
Preprints by preLighters – Tessa Sinnige
Tessa Sinnige has been part of the preLights team for nearly two years and has highlighted a number of preprints related to protein aggregation (her main research focus), but also studies on other topics such as academic research culture (you can read all her preLights here). Following the 'Meet the…
| Posted on | 15 September 2020 |
Preprints by preLighters – Miguel Almeida
Miguel Almeida is a postdoctoral researcher at the Gurdon Institute/University of Cambridge, UK where he recently joined the lab of Eric Miska. Prior to this, he pursued his PhD in the lab of René Ketting at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz. We asked Miguel about his latest publication on bioRxiv:…
| Posted on | 10 September 2020 |