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<div>Hey all,<br><br>For those local to Boston, could you please distribute this announcement on relevant email lists. <br><br>Thanks,<br>Sri <br><br><br><font color="#273187" face="Futura" size="+3">Open Access 2.0 <span name="st">
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<div><font face="Futura" size="+3">Chris Surridge, Managing Editor, PLoS ONE</font></div></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Futura" size="+3"><span name="st"><span id="st" name="st" class="st">Open</span></span> to the
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Futura" size="+3">2pm, Friday October
20, 2006</font></div>
<div><font face="Futura" size="+3">MIT Stata Center,
32-141<br><br><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" size="4">Part of OpenWetWare's <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Seminar</span> <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Series</span> on <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Open
</span> <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Science</span></font></font><br></div>
<div><a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Futura" size="+1">http://openwetware.org/wiki/Seminar_Series</font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Futura" size="+1">Talk Overview</font></div>
<div>Dr. Surridge is helping start <a href="http://plosone.org/" title="http://plosone.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">PLoS ONE</a>,
an effort to democratize scientific contribution, access, review, and
merit. This exciting new journal publishes scientifically sound
research regardless of subjective criteria such as "likely impact" or
"reader interest". Following publication, readers comment, annotate,
and rate each paper, adding value to the work as time goes on. Dr.
Surridge will talk of the progress to date, and the challenges that lie
ahead.</div>
<div><br><div><font face="Futura" size="+1">Biography</font></div>
<div><font face="Futura"><i>Adapted from the PLoS Website:<br>
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Christopher Surridge graduated with a degree in Biophysics from Leeds
University in 1988 and went on to study the dynamics of microtubule
assembly at Imperial College London. After a couple of years of
post-doc research he moved into scientific publishing as Assistant
Editor on Nature Structural Biology in December 1993. In 1995 he moved
onto the editorial team at Nature where he handled an eclectic mix of
subject areas mainly focusing on biophysics, mathematical and systems
biology, and plant <span id="st" name="st" class="st">science</span>. He also spent some time editing Nature's
Brief Communication section which has never fully recovered. By
mid-2005 the allure of reshaping scientific publishing to satisfy the
needs of a new century became irresistible and he moved to PLoS's
Cambridge office working on a new project called PLoS ONE to be
launched in 2006.<br>
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<div>This <span name="st"><span id="st" name="st" class="st">seminar</span></span> <span name="st"><span id="st" name="st" class="st">series</span></span> is sponsored by
OpenWetWare (<a href="http://openwetware.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#0042f1">http://openwetware.org</font></a>), a wiki serving the biological <span name="st">
<span id="st" name="st" class="st">science</span></span> and engineering
community. For more information, or online videos of past lectures, go to the <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Seminar</span> <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Series</span> website. Those interested in meeting with Dr. Surridge, please contact Sri Kosuri (
<a href="mailto:skosuri@mit.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">skosuri@mit.edu
</a>).<br></div>
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