Meeting with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut
24 January 2008
PODS, the IGMM Postdoctoral Society, held a very successful seminar with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, director of the newly-created Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, and internationally renowned for the creation of Dolly the sheep.
Over drinks and snacks, members of PODS - along with other interested IGMM scientists - had an informal and highly informative discussion with Professor Wilmut about his work, career, dealings with the media and current issues in cloning technology.
For other PODS meetings and events see:
www.epods.med.ed.ac.uk
The Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM)
Meeting with Dr Matt Cockerill
7 February 2008
The IGMM postdoctoral society, PODS, held another successful meeting on 7 February. Dr Matt Cockerill, from the open-access publisher BioMedCentral, gave an informal and interesting talk about the future of science publishing. He discussed the problems inherent in the traditional publishing model, and explained why open access is the future of scientific publishing. He also discussed the hot topic of metrics, i.e. how a journal (and article's) impact can be measured. After his talk, Matt also stayed to enjoy the hospitality on offer, and there was a lively discussion about the issues he had raised.
