Interview with Derya Unutmaz – Section Editor for Immunology at PLoS ONE

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Bora Zivkovic

Derya Unutmaz, M.D. is the Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Pathology and a Member of the Microbial Pathogenesis Program in the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center at the New York University School of Medicine. He serves as the Section Editor for Immunology at PLoS ONE. Dr. Unutmaz and I did the [...]

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PLoS on Internet TV – Open Access and Scientific Publishing

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Peter Binfield

Last week I had the opportunity to appear, with Jason Hoyt of Mendeley, in episode 14 of The Science Hour with Kirsten Sanford (Dr Kiki) and Leo Laporte (on Leo’s twit.tv site).
The discussion lasted about an hour and tackled various aspects of academic publishing in the internet era, open science, open access, how academics are [...]

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Academic Editor Interview – Peter Sommer

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Bora Zivkovic

Dr. Peter Sommer is the head of the Cell Biology of Retroviruses group at the Institut Pasteur Korea and the Section Editor for Virology at PLoS ONE. A few weeks back, Dr.Sommer provided us with his top picks of PLoS ONE articles in Virology and a couple of weeks ago I got in touch with [...]

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Living through the Flu epidemic – a perspective from Mexico

Posted on April 30, 2009 by plos1

PLoS production and editorial staff are in close contact with our soon to be published authors around the world and they often get to know them quite well during the to and fro of correspondence. A scientist from Mexico, who has a book review article that has been accepted for publication and will shortly be [...]

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Academic Editor Interview – Craig McClain

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Bora Zivkovic

Craig McClain is the Assistant Director of Science at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina and the Section Editor for Aquatic and Marine Sciences at PLoS ONE. Last week we met (it is nice that we now live so close to each other) and did the interview over pizza in Durham.
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Academic Editor Interview – Adam Ratner

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Bora Zivkovic

Adam Ratner, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at Columbia University. He is one of the first people to join the Editorial Board at PLoS ONE and is now our Section Editor for Infectious Diseases. We talked over Skype about medicine, Open Access, PLoS and the world of scientific publishing.
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An interview with one of PLoS ONE’s most frequently published authors.

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Peter Binfield

Jeremy Farrar, from the Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam has published seven articles with PLoS ONE which makes him one of our most frequently published authors.
We caught up with him via email as he sped around the world to ask him [...]

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Academic Editor Interview – Tom Tregenza

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Bora Zivkovic

Tom Tregenza is a Royal Society Research Fellow at the Centre for Ecology & Conservation at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall campus. He recently became the Section Editor for Evolution at PLoS ONE and in this capacity he has already handled 82 manuscripts. We talked over Skype last week about his science and about the [...]

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