Jessica is Director of ASAPbio, a researcher-driven non-profit working to promote conversations about the effective use of preprints in biology. Currently a visiting scholar at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, MA, Jessica performed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School; she received a PhD in Biochemistry from UCSF and a BS in Biology from UNC-CH. She is president of the non-profit Future of Research and serves on ASCB's Public Policy Committee as well as NAS's Next Generation Researchers Initiative.
Prachee Avasth, Assistant Professor at University of Kansas Medical Center
Prachee is an assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology and assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. She studies the formation and regulation of ciliary structures using primarily Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, together with cell culture and mouse models. Prachee is also a passionate preprint advocate and ran a course for graduate students called “Analysis of Scientific Papers.” The class taught students how to perform peer review by incorporating preprints into journal club and encouraged students to learn how to critically evaluate scientific manuscripts.
Josh Nicholson, Chief Research Officer at Authorea
Josh Nicholson received his PhD in 2015 from Virginia Tech studying the role of the karyotype in cancer initiation and progression in the lab of Dr. Daniela Cimini. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz in 2008. He has authored numerous articles on cancer and the practice of science, some of which have been discussed in Newsweek, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune, and The Boston Globe. He is the grandson of the late UC Berkeley Professor Richard Strohman who taught him “science is for the surprises, not the prizes.” He hopes The Winnower & Authorea will help uncover those surprises.
Monica Granados, Mozilla Open Leaders mentor and Postdoc at University of Guelph & Wildlife Conservation Society Canada.
Monica is a postdoctoral scholar developing a mobile app with Jacob Ritchie, a computer science graduate student at the University of Toronto to make fish consumption advisory data more accessible to the public including the indigenous communities of the northern parts of Ontario. Monica believes it is important to share raw data for reproducibility and that working in the open changed the way she prepared, delivered and published her manuscripts. Working in the open has improved the way Monica does research and now gives workshops to other researchers on how to practice in the open. Monica also shares these and other tutorials through her github repository.
Lenny Teytelman, Co-founder of protocols.io
Lenny has over a decade of computational and experimental biology experience. He did his graduate studies at UC Berkeley and finished his postdoctoral research at MIT. For three years, prior to switching from math and computer science to molecular biology, he was a database developer.