This week we interviewed Editor Dr. G. Matt Davies. He is Assistant Professor of Soil and Plant Community Restoration in The Ohio State University's School of Environment and Natural Resources. We caught up with him via email and asked him about his background, his...
World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1st every year to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and to demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. The WHO’s focus for the 2013 campaign is improving access to prevention, treatment, and care services for...
Today’s Interview is with Professor Jafri Abdullah, Professor of Neurosciences and Director of the Center for Neuroscience Services and Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, as well as the Head of the Department of Neurosciences, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti...
World Diabetes Day is an annual day of awareness, held on the November 14, to keep diabetes firmly in the public spotlight. According to the official website, more than 371 million people have diabetes, and the top 3 countries with diabetics are China, India, and USA....
Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death worldwide and this is projected to remain so, according to World Health Organization (WHO). About 17.3 million people died from cardiovascular disease in 2008, representing 30 percent of all global deaths. The...
For our latest Interview with an Academic Editor we were able to talk to Dee Carter, of the University of Sydney. Dr Carter's lab concentrates on the use of genetic markers and molecular techniques to uncover the natural life histories of lower eukaryotic organisms....
With this week’s publication of the 'Living Fossil' tadpole shrimp article, it was fortuitous timing that we had also conducted an interview with the Academic Editor who handled that paper, Professor Keith Crandall. Although Professor Crandall’s comments do not...
This week’s ‘Interview with an Editor’ is with Dr Jennifer K. Wagner. Jennifer conducts multidisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies (Penn CIGHT). She is also a licensed attorney...
This week’s ‘Interview with an Editor’ is with Jonathan Eisen. Jonathan is a Professor at the University of California, Davis as well as an Adjunct Scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. He is the Recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Science...
This is the second in our Series of Interviews with PeerJ Editors, giving them a voice to express their thoughts about academic publishing, open access and PeerJ. This time around we spoke to Fabiana Kubke who is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences...
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