Meet the preLighters: an interview with Heath MacMillan
Heath MacMillan is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. His lab is studying the mechanisms of thermal tolerance in insects and aims to answer questions like ‘Why can one species survive a Canadian winter while the other cannot?’ We caught up with Heath to talk about his research,…
| Posted on | 22 August 2018 |
Preprints promote transparency and communication
preLighters Carmen Adriaens, Gautam Dey, Amanda Haage, Wouter Masselink, Sundar Ram Naganathan, Lauren Neves, Teresa Rayon, Samantha Seah, Srivats Venkataramanan wrote a commentary in response to a news article in Nature, which was published on the Node. ‘How can we have preprints and support good journalism?’ Tom Sheldon, a…
| Posted on | 13 August 2018 |
‘This month in preLights’ – new blog post on The Node
We have started a monthly blog post on The Node where we summarise the preLights in developmental biology and related fields. Read our first post here.
| Posted on | 9 August 2018 |
preLights posts are now featured in The Company of Biologists journals
Three of The Company of Biologists journals (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Disease Models & Mechanisms) now feature preLights posts each month in their online Table of Contents (eTOC). The lists include the title of the highlighted preprints, their short 'tweetable' summaries and links to the preLights posts and the…
| Posted on | 1 August 2018 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Erik Clark
Erik Clark is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge in the lab of Michael Akam. Erik studied at Oxford and Imperial College London before starting his PhD, where he worked on segmentation patterning in Drosophila. Erik has won a number of grants and awards, among them the BSDB…
| Posted on | 15 June 2018 |
Call for new preLighters
preLights, The Company of Biologist’s new preprint highlighting service, has now been running for more than five months. At the heart of preLights is the community of early-career researchers who select and highlight interesting preprints in various fields. We are ready to grow our team of preLighters and are seeking…
| Posted on | 5 June 2018 |