As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings this…
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Announcement Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics (July 30 – August 4, 2017): John Greally
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Announcement Chromatin goes green in Wien: Highlights from the 5th European Workshop on Plant Chromatin (Vienna, Austria, June 1-2, 2017)
Authors: Sean A. Montgomery, Jasmin Bassler, Mattia Doná, Ruben Gutzat (all at Gregor Mendel Institute), Iva Mozgova (Centre Algatech) As part of…
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Bioinformatics Bad Identifiers are the Potholes of the Information Superhighway: Take-Home Lessons for Researchers
By Julie McMurry, Lilly Winfree, Melissa Haendel This is a guest post by three of the authors of a recent…
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Announcement Gordon Research Seminar on Chromosome Dynamics (May 20 – 21, 2017): Cori Cahoon
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Biology Chromosomes in Kerala, India: 3rd Chromosome Stability Meeting (Thiruvananthapuram, December 15-18, 2016)
Authors: Michael Lichten, National Cancer Institute; K.T. Nishant, IISER Thiruvananthapuram; Kaustuv Sanyal, JNCASR Bangalore; Joseph Heitman, Duke University Medical Center Competing…
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Advocacy Setting Your Cites on Open
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about 6 months, the initiative…
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Announcement 58th Annual Drosophila Research Conference (March 29th – April 2nd): Claude Desplan
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Biology Understanding Images: How genetic makeup of a ‘roommate’ can influence health
Understanding Images: How genetic makeup of a ‘roommate’ can influence health Author: Amelie Baud, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute…
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Community Accidents Will Happen… Introducing LabCIRS
Ever wondered how a laboratory (or a scientific research department) should best manage its day-to-day operations? In a recently published PLOS…
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Biology Understanding Images: Animal fertility governed by small non-coding RNAs
Author: Jamy C. Peng, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA Competing Interests: Jamy C. Peng is an author of the…
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Advocacy Making the Case for Basic Research
Scientists stuck on the grant-seeking treadmill may find comfort in the results of a recent report from the National Science Foundation. Eighty-five…
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Community Shaping Neural Circuits, Human Brain Region Development, and Predicting the Future: the PLOS Comp Biol August Issue
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology August issue: Shaping Neural Circuits by High Order Synaptic Interactions Plasticity…