F1000Research
(Jan 2015)
Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/4yc]
Gary S. McDowell,
Kearney T. W. Gunsalus,
Drew C. MacKellar,
Sarah A. Mazzilli,
Vaibhav P. Pai,
Patricia R. Goodwin,
Erica M. Walsh,
Avi Robinson-Mosher,
Thomas A. Bowman,
James Kraemer,
Marcella L. Erb,
Eldi Schoenfeld,
Leila Shokri,
Jonathan D. Jackson,
Ayesha Islam,
Matthew D. Mattozzi,
Kristin A. Krukenberg,
Jessica K. Polka
Affiliations
Gary S. McDowell
Department of Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA
Kearney T. W. Gunsalus
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 02111, USA
Drew C. MacKellar
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Sarah A. Mazzilli
Department of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
Vaibhav P. Pai
Department of Biology, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA
Patricia R. Goodwin
Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA
Erica M. Walsh
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Avi Robinson-Mosher
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Thomas A. Bowman
Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 02111, USA
James Kraemer
Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
Marcella L. Erb
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
Eldi Schoenfeld
Synthetic Biology Center, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
Leila Shokri
Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Jonathan D. Jackson
Department of Neuroscience, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA
Ayesha Islam
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
Matthew D. Mattozzi
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Kristin A. Krukenberg
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Jessica K. Polka
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5878.2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3
Abstract
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The landscape of scientific research and funding is in flux as a result of tight budgets, evolving models of both publishing and evaluation, and questions about training and workforce stability. As future leaders, junior scientists are uniquely poised to shape the culture and practice of science in response to these challenges. A group of postdocs in the Boston area who are invested in improving the scientific endeavor, planned a symposium held on October 2nd and 3rd, 2014, as a way to join the discussion about the future of US biomedical research. Here we present a report of the proceedings of participant-driven workshops and the organizers’ synthesis of the outcomes.
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