Open Access Publishing with Michael Eisen

April 24, 2018
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Wegmans Hall 1400 (auditorium), River Campus

Michael Eisen
Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Interested in hearing about open access publishing and the way it is affecting how scholarly work is communicated to the world?  Come to hear Professor Michael Eisen, the co-founder of the Public Library of Science, speak about “The Journal Free Future of Scholarly Publishing”. 

In addition to his role in PLoS, Dr. Eisen is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and a 2018 candidate for the US Senate. Dr. Eisen is a computational biologist and will discuss open code and data in his lecture which is of interest to the GIDS community.

His talk is sponsored by the Leadership in Education UCIS group, with additional support from UCIS groups in Genetics and in RNA Structure and Function.

The talk is free and open to the public; a reception will follow. Contact Amanda Larracuente (alarracu@ur.rochester.edu) for questions or accommodation requests.

 

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