Episode 45 - Surviving freezing through leg amputation. But be careful about regeneration!This week we discussed how flies survive in freezing temperatures with Anne Sustar, a Research Scientist / Lab Manager, Dominic Golding, a medical studen

Holiday special with Jonny Coates

Dec 20th, 2023 49m 57s

This week we celebrate the end of the year by chatting with our host Jonny Coates (@JACoates), Associate Director at ASAPBio. Join us for a conversation on the importance of all things preprints, science communication, open access, career devel

Review Commons: One review to rule them all

Oct 25th, 2023 51m 34s

It's open access week 2023 and to celebrate we focus on preprint peer review with Review Commons. We talk to Sara Monaco (@monaco_reviewcommons; Managing Editor) and Thomas Lemberger (@tlemberger; Deputy Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO

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Peer Review Week LIVE Rapid Reviews with Stefano Bertozzi

Sep 29th, 2023 34m 51s

To celebrate the end of Peer Review Week (2023) we recorded a live episode of the podcast with Stefano Bertozzi from Rapid Reviews to talk all things preprint peer review. No editing on this one!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcaste

In the PI’s seat – Charlotte Odendall

Sep 20th, 2023 49m 57s

This week we discuss the academic career of a young PI with Charlotte Odendall @codendall, a Sir Henry Dale Fellow at King’s College London. Join us for a conversation on starting a group with a Fellowship, how martial arts help with stress, an

Microplastics - they're everywhere!

Aug 16th, 2023 34m 50s

This week we discuss microplastics with Nicole Grechi, a PhD Candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. WE also discuss her experiences with the new eLife model and a love for science. Read the full preprint -> https://elifesciences

Our 2 year birthday! The fascinating (and longer than you think) history of preprint servers with Matthew Cobb

Jul 19th, 2023 1h 1m

It’s our 2 year birthday this month! To celebrate we take a trip back to the past and discuss the history of preprint servers with Matthew Cobb, a Professor at the University of Manchester. Find Matthew’s BBC podcast for more about the great s

Early Career Researcher Special

Jun 14th, 2023 1h 20m

This week we discuss all things ECR with Mayank Chugh & Gracielle Higino, two current postdocs who are leading the efforts in fighting for a better environment for ECRs in academia. Gracielle is an ASAPbio fellow and program co-ordinator at B

In the PI’s seat - Thibaut Brunet

May 10th, 2023 45m 23s

This week we discuss the academic career of a young PI with Thibaut Brunet @thibaut_brunet, a G5 Group Leader at Institut Pasteur. Join us for a conversation on eating spiders, dancing creatures of the ocean, and the challenges of applying for

Fibrosis; It's hot and it's cold

Apr 12th, 2023 58m 6s

This week we discuss hot and cold fibrosis with Shoval Miyara, a PhD student at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Find shoval on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MiyaraShoval)Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023

In the PI’s seat - Nicolás Rascovan

Mar 1st, 2023 52m 20s

In the PI’s seat - Nicolás RascovanThis week we discuss the academic career of a young PI with Nicolás Rascovan @NRascovan, a G5 Group Leader at Institut Pasteur.Nicolás Rascovan: https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/microbial-paleogenomics/h

Synthetic carbon fixation, lets save the world!

Feb 1st, 2023 1h 3m

This week we discuss synthetic carbon fixation, running a lab as a postdoc and eLife’s new publishing model with Sebastian Wenk, a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology.Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.

eLife: publishing, community and pushing the boundaries with Michael Eisen & Devang Mehta

Jan 18th, 2023 1h 29m

This week we discuss the big changes occurring over at eLife with Editor in Chief Mike Eisen & original ECAG member Devang Mehta. From Jan 2023, eLife is focusing on public reviews and assessments of preprints and eliminating accept/reject dec

Xmas special - Battle of the servers, how to choose a preprint server

Dec 7th, 2022 58m 12s

DISCLAIMER – These servers were reviewed from the approach of a first use instance and may not accurately reflect the full capabilities of each server. Moreover, any comments are opinions only.Preprint servers. There’s an incredibly interestin

RNA editing in squid; recoding the proteome with Kavita Rangan

Nov 16th, 2022 44m 44s

This week we discuss RNA editing in cephalopods with postdoc Kavita Rangan.Read the full preprint -> https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.25.509396v1.fullThis episode was produced by Jonny Coates and edited by Tala Noun & John Howa

PreReview: leading the charge in transparent peer review of preprints with Daniela Saderi

Nov 2nd, 2022 44m 8s

This week we chat with Daniela Saderi, she is the Co-Founder and Director of PREreview (@prereview_), an open project with the mission to bring more equity and transparency to the evaluation of research content, giving systematically excluded r

Colliding cells; how cell shape affects collision outcomes with Pedrom Zadeh

Oct 19th, 2022 50m 53s

This week we discuss modeling cell-cell collisions with Pedrom Zadeh, a 4th year PhD student at Johns Hopkins University. We learn how to distill basic biology into models and just how important and useful modeling can be as a tool.Read the fu

Divide and Conquer: Cytoplasmic Divisions Without Nuclei

Oct 5th, 2022 54m 12s

This week we discuss how cells can divide without nuclei and why this happens with Anand Bakshi, Fabio Echegaray Iturra (@fabioechegaray) & Mustafa G. Aydogan @AydoganLab. We also highlight Drosophila as an amazing model system that just keeps

Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing and Diversity

Sep 21st, 2022 43m 59s

This week we discuss mitochondrial DNA and its importance in aging with Amy Vandiver (@AmyVandiver2). We also highlight a new method to quickly sequence full length mitochondrial DNA allowing for mitochondrial genome comparisons and the underst

Octopus and the many tentacles of research outputs

Sep 6th, 2022 45m 32s

This week we discuss a different take on sharing scientific findings with Alex Freeman (@alex_freeman), creator of Octopus @science_octopus. Octopus is resetting the incentive structure for research sharing, putting the emphasis on assessing th

Metabolic heterogeneity in macrophages

Aug 3rd, 2022 43m 20s

This week we discuss macrophage heterogeneity with Graham Heieis (@GrahamHeieis), a Post-doc at the Leiden University Medical Center (@LUMC_Leiden) in the Netherlands. We speak to him about mass cytometry and spectral flow cytometry and their u

Paper Retractions and Preprint Withdrawals with Michele Avissar-Whiting

Jul 20th, 2022 44m 23s

We’ve gone full circle!! Join us this week as we talk to Michele Avissar-Whiting (@maw_tweets), one of our first ever guests on this podcast and Editor in Chief of Research Square, as we discuss what happens to a preprint when the downstream pu

Ciliopathies, ‘Chlamy’ and Cilia length

Jul 6th, 2022 39m 45s

This week we discuss cilia length, ciliopathies and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (also known as ‘Chlamy’) with Brae Briggs (@BiggeBrae), a graduate student from at Dartmouth (@dartmouth),Geisel School of Medicine (@GeiselMed). We find out about a

Prachee Avasthi on ASAPbio, Arcadia Science and the open science mission on our one year birthday

Jun 15th, 2022 1h 44m

We’re 1 year old today! And to help celebrate our Birthday we have an extra long conversation with the incomparable Prachee Avasthi (@PracheeAC), Associate Professor at Dartmouth, President of ASAPbio and CSO & co-founder of Arcadia Science). W

Can we regenerate the heart?

Jun 1st, 2022 55m 36s

This week we discuss heart dedifferentiation and regeneration with Avraham Shakked @abingtonSA a final year PhD student, at the Weizmann Institute of Science, @WeizmannScience. We speak about their ingenious mouse model which uses transient and