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  1. Research Culture: Virtual conferences raise standards for accessibility and interactions

    Sarvenaz Sarabipour
    Virtual conferences benefit the scientific community by increasing the number and diversity of attendees compared to in-person conferences, and by being less time consuming, more economic and environmentally friendly.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Differential regulation by CD47 and thrombospondin-1 of extramedullary erythropoiesis in mouse spleen

    Rajdeep Banerjee, Thomas J Meyer ... David D Roberts
    Increased extramedullary erythropoiesis in spleen compensates for the elevated turnover of red blood cells in mice lacking CD47, but extramedullary erythropoiesis is suppressed in mice lacking the CD47 ligand thrombospondin-1.
  2. Cutting Edge: Using mobile sequencers in an academic classroom

    Sophie Zaaijer, Columbia University Ubiquitous Genomics 2015 class, Yaniv Erlich
    A university genomics class provides detailed examples of how to design and execute Oxford Nanopore MinION hackathons as part of an academic curriculum.
  3. Point of View: Telling it like it is

    Alison Woollard
    Following a year of public engagement activities associated with the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Alison Woollard explains why scientists need to communicate with the public.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Large-scale characterization of drug mechanism of action using proteome-wide thermal shift assays

    Jonathan G Van Vranken, Jiaming Li ... Devin K Schweppe
    An approachable framework for the scalable implementation of proteome-wide thermal shift assays to assess drug mechanisms of action.
  4. Plain-language Summaries of Research: Writing for different readers

    Peter Rodgers
    More could be done to make research papers readily understandable by the public.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania reveals disease priorities and importance of timely collection of vaginal swab samples for attribution

    Felix Lankester, Tito J Kibona ... Sarah Cleaveland
    Livestock abortion surveillance can capture valuable information on important livestock pathogens, including those that are zoonotic and with epidemic potential, revealing importance of timely collection of diagnostic samples for attribution.
  5. Science Forum: A community-led initiative for training in reproducible research

    Susann Auer, Nele A Haeltermann ... Reproducibility for Everyone Team
    The Reproducibility for Everyone initiative aims to provide researchers at all career stages and across many disciplines with training in reproducible research practices via customizable workshop material.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Ecology

    The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research

    Adriano Rutz, Maria Sorokina ... Pierre-Marie Allard
    The LOTUS initiative builds, through the Wikidata knowledge graph, a virtuous cycle of data sharing practices for natural products research.
  6. Webinar Report: Public engagement with your research

    Our speakers shared insights on the importance of public engagement, and how it improves science and makes a positive impact on relevant communities.