Authors: Sean A. Montgomery, Jasmin Bassler, Mattia Doná, Ruben Gutzat (all at Gregor Mendel Institute), Iva Mozgova (Centre Algatech) As part of…
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Announcement Chromatin goes green in Wien: Highlights from the 5th European Workshop on Plant Chromatin (Vienna, Austria, June 1-2, 2017)
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Announcement Tips on Nominating an Article for the $5,000 PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2017
Nominations are open until Friday, June 16, 2017 at 11.59 PM Eastern Time. To assist you in nominating, we’ve gathered some helpful…
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Announcement Nominations open for the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2017
Have you read a 2016 PLOS Genetics Research Article that stood out for you in terms of the strength of its…
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Announcement Gordon Research Seminar on Chromosome Dynamics (May 20 – 21, 2017): Cori Cahoon
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Announcement Protocols: The Devil is in the Details
Hopefully you know already about the PLOS partnership with protocols.io; if you don’t, PLOS announced this almost exactly a month ago. What…
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Announcement 18th Annual Microbiology Student Symposium (April 29, 2017): Carly Grant
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Announcement Continuing to Bridge the Journal-Wikipedia Gap: Introducing Topic Pages for PLOS Genetics
Have you ever wished that Wikipedia had a better article on your favourite subject? Or felt that more credit should be given…
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Advocacy Setting Your Cites on Open
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about 6 months, the initiative…
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Announcement 58th Annual Drosophila Research Conference (March 29th – April 2nd): Claude Desplan
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Announcement ASCB 2016 meeting (San Francisco, Dec 3 – 7)
This Saturday the ASCB 2016 meeting kicks off in San Francisco, and the city is already packed with excited cell biologists…
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Announcement In Celebration of Open Data
It’s not every day I get to write something that is just fun. In celebration of OpenCon, and to recognise all…
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Advocacy Making the Case for Basic Research
Scientists stuck on the grant-seeking treadmill may find comfort in the results of a recent report from the National Science Foundation. Eighty-five…