microPublication: inspiring communities with access to scholarly communication
May 27, 2020 12PM-1PM PST
Started by serving the C. elegans research community, microPublication Biology has expanded to other model organism communities and beyond. Besides being beneficial to researchers at all career levels, microPublication has proven to be a wonderful tool to showcase undergraduate research and foster education. We will hear from different groups that have been inspired by the microPublication vision and learn how they are using it to make a difference.
The schedule of discussions is below:
Moderator: Karen Yook
12:00-12:05 Opening Comments
12:05-12:15 Interview – Diana Chu an accomplished C. elegans researcher and professor extraordinaire at SF State will interview Paul Sternberg, the Editor-in-Chief of microPublication Biology, and professor at California Institute of Technology. They will discuss the problems with traditional science publishing, who and what is left out of the knowledge stream and how microPublication is filling some of those gaps.
- Paul Sternberg – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA
- Diana Chu – San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA USA
12:15-12:35 The CURE Show and Tell – Diana Chu will be joined with Jacob Kagey, Lina Dahlberg, and Glen Ernstrom to talk about Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) as a method of teaching undergraduates and how they are incorporating academic publishing into their syllabi. In addition, Laura Reed will tell us about the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP), a CURE method of teaching bioinformatics and genomics and their move to incorporate student citations in their program.
- Diana Chu – San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA USA
- Jacob Kagey – University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI USA
- Lina Dahlberg – Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA USA
- Glen Ernstrom – Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont USA
- Laura Reed – University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL US
12:40-12:50 Emerging communities – microPublication works hand in hand with community knowledgebases to ensure that published data adhere to community standards in reporting experimental details. As we expand to new communities we talk with Deidre Lyons about the Echinoderm community, why they need a publication venue, and how we can get that to happen.
- Deirdre Lyons – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA USA
12:50-1:00 Where microPublication stands now – microPublication is a place to publish research without the traditional big picture narrative that we are used to in traditional journals. We will talk to people who have published in microPublication Biology and find out why they chose to get their data out.
- Paul Sternberg – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA
- Paul Minor – Stanford University, CA USA
- Dan Dickinson – University of Texas at Austin TX USA
- Cheryl Van Buskirk – California State University Northridge, CA US
Special entertainment by Phoebe Ray and Chris Price playing “Blowing on Autumn Leaves with Jazz Hats”
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