BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open Science evening talks 2017: free event DTSTART:20170926T180000 DTEND:20170926T191500 DTSTAMP:20260415T075752Z UID:9f452c5371f042b9bea7370c84256164ec4ebe50213dcdfccf0f18aa CATEGORIES:Miscellaneous DESCRIPTION:Jessica Polka: PhD is a visiting scholar at the Whitehead Inst itute and director of ASAPbio\, a biologist-driven project to promote the productive use of preprints in the life sciences. She performed postdoctor al research in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School following a PhD in Biochemistry from UCSF. She also serves as president o f the board of directors of Future of Research\, a steering committee memb er of Rescuing Biomedical Research\, a member of the NAS Next Generation R esearchers Initiative\, and a member of ASCB's public policy committee. La wrence Rajendran: Prof. Lawrence Rajendran is a renowned expert in the cel l biology of Alzheimer’s disease. He is one of the founding members of t he International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) and served on t he board as the Steering committee member. On the social side\, he is also the founder of Raise.Rural\, a non-profit organization dedicated to suppo rt rural students in India to pursue research. He has won many awards and honors including the European Young Scientist Grand Prize\, German Neurosc ience Society's Schilling's prize\, the Breuer Award\, the National Medal of Honor and the President’s Prize by the Govt. of Panama\, German Alzhe imer’s Hirnliga’s Steinberg-Krupp Prize\, Boehringer Ingelheim Apopis Prize\, European Neuroscience Society Award and a University gold medalist in both Bachelors and Masters. Rajendran featured in the 2009 World's top 100 Scientists. He is also the founder and Chairman of ScienceMatters\, t he next generation open-access and open science journal platform that publ ishes single observations in science. Lawrence Rajendran: Prof. Lawrence R ajendran is a renowned expert in the cell biology of Alzheimer’s disease . He is one of the founding members of the International Society for Extra cellular Vesicles (ISEV) and served on the board as the Steering committee member. On the social side\, he is also the founder of Raise.Rural\, a no n-profit organization dedicated to support rural students in India to purs ue research. He has won many awards and honors including the European Youn g Scientist Grand Prize\, German Neuroscience Society's Schilling's prize\ , the Breuer Award\, the National Medal of Honor and the President’s Pri ze by the Govt. of Panama\, German Alzheimer’s Hirnliga’s Steinberg-Kr upp Prize\, Boehringer Ingelheim Apopis Prize\, European Neuroscience Soci ety Award and a University gold medalist in both Bachelors and Masters. Ra jendran featured in the 2009 World's top 100 Scientists. He is also the fo under and Chairman of ScienceMatters\, the next generation open-access and open science journal platform that publishes single observations in scien ce. Kirstie Whitaker: She is a Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institut e (London\, UK). She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University o f California\, Berkeley in 2012 and holds a BSc in Physics from the Univer sity of Bristol and an MSc in Medical Physics from the University of Briti sh Columbia. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychi atry at the University of Cambridge from 2012 to 2017. Dr Whitaker uses ma gnetic resonance imaging to study child and adolescent brain development a nd is a passionate advocate for reproducible neuroscience. She is an Fulbr ight scholarship alumna and 2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for Science . Kirstie w as named\, with her collaborator Petra Vertes\, as a 2016 Global Thinker b y Foreign Policy magazine.\nThis free event took place in the Rolex Learni ng Center from Monday 25th to Thursday 28th September at 6pm on the EPFL C ampus (Rolex Learning Center). Following the programme of the Open Science  Summer School\, each day focused on a specific aspect of Open Science: l andscape\, publications\, research data\, code and tools.\n\nThe main goal was to encourage a constructive thinking and stimulate discussions about Open Science\, offering every evening two or three short public talks foll owed by an aperitif\, to allow participants exchange in an informal and co nvivial context.\nThe event was open to EPFL community\, as well as all th ose who wanted to learn more about Open Science\, getting an overview of its main stakes and the related evolution of academic research.\n \nWatch the playlist of all talks given by specialists in the Open Science field on Youtube.\n\n6.10PM "Preprints in the life sciences" by Jessica Polka ( PRESENTATION)\nAbstract: Our traditional publication system keeps new rese arch hidden from public view long after it is ready to be evaluated by our peers. This has adverse consequences not only for individual careers\, bu t also for the overall speed of scientific communication and discovery. Pr eprints\, or manuscripts posted online before the completion of journal-or ganized peer review\, offer a solution to this problem. In this interactiv e discussion\, we will address the benefits of preprinting\, concerns and challenges surrounding their use\, and new developments - including rapidl y changing funder and journal policies.\n \n6.30PM "ScienceMatters - Pub lishing platform for single observations in Science" by Lawrence Rajendran (PRESENTATION)\nAbstract: ScienceMatters (www.sciencematters.io) is the first platform for scientists to publish single observations and not fully developed stories. By eliminating the need to tell full stories\, and fav oring simple data-based observations over story-telling\, we eliminate the current pressure to tell sexy stories. This also reduces the negative inc entives associated with publishing in high-impact journals\, namely to com e up with data that must fit the big storyline\, since it is this narrativ e pressure that in some unfortunate cases can lead to fraudulence. Therefo re\, ScienceMatters brings honesty and speed to scientific publishing and helps the science community to produce robust and better results. The plat form is open access and allows scientists to get the unique opportunity to publish peer-reviewed single observations with the integration of cutting -edge social media features\, thus engaging the community to provide post- publication review both by the experts and other scientists/readers. Scien ceMatters will thus incentivize honest science by: Single observations\, d ata driven science and real-time publishing / Lowering threshold for publi shing / Paid peer-review\, short peer-reviewing process and fast dissemina tion of knowledge.\n\n6.50PM "Showing your working: a how to guide to repr oducible research" by Kirstie Whitaker (PRESENTATION)\nAbstract: This talk will discuss the perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research\, and give practical guidance on h ow they can be overcome. It will include suggestions on how to make your c ode available and usable for others (including a strong suggestion to docu ment it clearly so you don't have to reply to lots of email questions from future users). Exercises and resources will be persistently available aft er the talk and all audience members will leave knowing there is something they can do to step towards making their research reproducible. LOCATION:Rolex Learning Center STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR