The past, the present, and the future of preprints
Channel: ASAP bio
Date: 29/10/2020

Topics included:

- Benefits and concerns about the use of preprints in the life sciences
- Acceptance by the scientific community and funding agencies
- Participation and diversity in research communication: do preprints address or contribute to disparities?
- Alternative peer review models in the context of preprints

Panelists:
Chairs: Marco Fumasoni (Harvard University) and Yamini Ravichandran (Institut Pasteur/Institut Curie)
- Anjana Badrinarayan, NCBS-Bangalore, Principal Investigator
- Ross Mounce, Arcadia Fund
- Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Principal Investigator        
- Richard Sever, Co-founder of bioRxiv & medRxiv, Assistant Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
- Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Editorial Policy & Research Integrity, Nature Research

Organized by ASAPbio Fellows: Yamini Ravichandran (Institut Pasteur/Institut Curie, France), Marco Fumasoni (Harvard University, US), Bradly Alicea (Orthogonal Research and Education Lab, US) and Sarah Stryeck (Graz University of Technology, Austria).