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Supercharging Scientific Publishing with Dr. Jessica Polka of ASAPBio
“Science can only progress if others are able to read and build off of what has been learned in the past.” Jessica Polka shares this insight and many more in this conversation with LSP about the current state of scientific publishing. As the executive director of ASAPbio, an organization battling the slowing of the sharing of scientific knowledge, she’s played a key role in catalyzing change when it comes to how and when scientific articles are shared. We dive into the White House memo calling for all scientific papers to be open access by 2025, what some of her key concerns are for the space, and that explosive eLife announcement about preprints. You won’t want to miss this great conversation!
Links for Jessica:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicapolka (https://twitter.com/jessicapolka)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicapolka/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicapolka/)
ASAPbio: www.asapbio.org (http://www.asapbio.org)
20 Jul 2023
Building Software for Biologists with Dr. Vega Shah (Benchling)
Dr. Vega Shah was was like a gold miner during her undergraduate and graduate school studies, except instead of panning for gold, she was searching the metagenomes of ocean samples for new life and new metabolic functions. What she found was a new species of ocean bacteria, but she also realized that the software tools she relied on and the databases she used to answer her research questions were anything but solid. After grad school, she shifted her career to building software for biologists at Dotmatics, integrating tools such as Prism into electronic lab notebooks. Today she’s a program manager at Benchling working to integrate new functions and communicate these resources to scientists everywhere. It's a thoughtful conversation you won't want to miss. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: https://rss.com/podcasts/ladyscientistpodcast/ (https://rss.com/podcasts/ladyscientistpodcast/) Links for Vega Shah: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vegashah/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vegashah/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/dr_alphalyrae (https://twitter.com/dr_alphalyrae) The Aliquot (her Substack): https://thealiquot.substack.com/ (https://thealiquot.substack.com/) This episode is sponsored by LabDAO. Check out PLEX, an open source platform for running many of the latest and greatest new computational biology tools including DiffDock, RfDiffusion, and ColabFold. https://labdao.xyz/ (https://labdao.xyz/)
12 May 2023
Biotech Platform and Product with Dr. Erandi De Silva, Co-Founder Forge Biologics
Scientist & entrepreneur, Dr. Erandi De Silva, grew up in the small country of Botswana, where she lived through an HIV epidemic. Seeing scientists and epidemiologists having a direct translational impact on public health inspired her to pursue a career in science. She immigrated to the US to go to college, and went on to get her PhD and did an industry postdoc at Genentech before founding Forge Biologics. In this episode, we discuss what it's like running a company that has both a 'platform' in the sense that they are a CDMO - they make AAV products for other companies, and a 'product'; they also have a clinical product they are evaluating. Erandi De Silva on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erandi-de-silva-phd-08076222/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/erandi-de-silva-phd-08076222/) Forge Biologics: https://www.forgebiologics.com/ (https://www.forgebiologics.com/) Leave us a comment if you enjoyed this episode. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
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