Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Gerd Moe-Behrens has a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.  During a brief Post Doc at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany his scientific focus was on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. This work introduced him to Systems Biology. This was the starting point for his interest in Synthetic Biology with a special focus on biocomputing. He started to join the Apple developer program, focused on dry lab work and work on an Apple platform (xcode, dashcode, objective c, html5, css3, java). He then founded the Leukippos Institute for Synthetic Biology, a research institute solely in the cloud. He has a strong interest to explore novel forms of scientific work on a web platform. His personal research interests are computer assisted design, morphogenesis and cellular computers. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Chris Surridge is Chief Editor of Nature Protocols and Associate Publisher the Protocol Exchange. He is also involved in a collaboration between NPG and Antibodypedia a database of information about publically available antibodies created by scientists at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Antibodies are the workhorses of cell biological research. Take a wander through the research published in any cell biology journal and you will quickly become convinced that almost no research could be done without these adaptable little molecules. Immunoprecipitation, immunolocalisation, immunofluorescence, Elisa, Western blot – it is very difficult to find any research papers in the field that don’t employ at least one of the multitude of antibody based techniques. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Benedict Noel is an Australian scientific entrepreneur with BSc and BCompSc degrees from the University of Western Australia. He has always worked for startups, and over the past few years he has become instrumental in mediating between outsourcing contractors and local companies. In late 2009, it came to him that there was a gap in the outsourcing sector — science. He launched his scientific and R&D outsourcing company, Zombal, with the goal of bringing this new sector into the public light.

I’ve always had a passion for science and I’ve earned degrees with majors in Geology, Archaeology and Computer Science. However, I’ve discovered that entrepreneurial pursuits bring me the most happiness.

A few years ago my father asked if I could find a freelancer to do some science work for him — physics calculations. After I really struggled to find an ideal candidate using the available freelancing sites, the idea for Zombal was born – an outsourcing site especially for science. The primary goal of the site is to provide a hub for scientists to register for work, displaying their skills through a profile. If you need assistance from a scientist, you can come to the site, post your requirements and then invite particular individuals to place a bid on your proposal. This online hiring process is made simple for both the employer and the scientist. In fact, we want to make the process of connecting like-minded people as easy as possible. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Musa Akbari is an Iranian, born in Turkey, who has lived in the Bay Area for the latter half of his life. He graduated with degrees in Science and Technology Studies and Contemporary Leadership from UC Davis. With a deep understanding of networked systems in the sciences, combined with practical experience in emerging markets in web tech, he felt drawn to the insensible disconnect between how science is done and the technologies available today. He has assumed this opportunity as a personal quest to help facilitate the inevitable shift in scientific peer-review and publishing.  Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Derek Hennen is currently an undergrad studying Biology and Spanish at Marietta College, he will be graduating in a few weeks.  After he graduates, he will be working with a watershed organization in Marietta, Ohio called Friends of the Lower Muskingum River as an AmeriCorps VISTA. Derek is focused on communicating knowledge about insects to the general public through his blog, Normal Biology and through public talks. He plans to continue his insect research at graduate school in the future. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Mike Biocchi is currently a PhD student focusing his research on Education Technology and E-learning. His research is aimed at using video games as an educational tool inside the classroom, instead of a means of just entertainment. Mike has an  MSc in Computer Games Technology and is the founder and owner of Chamfered Technology. He is also the Academic Specialist at Algoma University in the IT Department and a part-time faculty member at Algoma University with the Computer Science Department.  Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Jenn Cable  received a PhD in Biochemistry in June 2011 and since then has been working towards becoming a science writer. She currently writes regularly on nature.com’s New York Blog and also works as a medical writer, developing materials for new drugs. Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Jerry Sheehan serves as the Chief of Staff for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership. In his this capacity, Mr. Sheehan has responsibility for strategic planning, metrics, institute governance, and strategic initiatives. During his career Jerry has focused on the intersection of public policy and information technology with a particular interest in applying academic innovation to “real world” problems. In addition to his executive management responsibilities, Jerry served as Senior Personnel on the National Science Foundation’s GreenLight Project, a major research instrument effort focused on improving computer energy efficiency. Sheehan served as a member of the California Emerging Technology Fund Panel of Experts and as staff has supported the work of Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Broadband Task Force and President Clinton’s Information Technology Advisory Committee on Open Source Software for High Performance Computing. He received a Masters of Science degree in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University in 1991 and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Educause.  Continue reading →

Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To celebrate our first birthday, we are handing the mic over to the audience so that anyone who would like to participate will get five minutes to show off their favourite online tool, application or website that makes science online fun. To complement the celebrations, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science where a range of scientists share details about what’s in their online science toolkits.  Why not let us know how they compare to the tools that you use in the comment threads?

Boris Adryan is a biologist by training (studies at Mainz, Germany, and Charleston, USA). He obtained a PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany) for work on the development of the Drosophila tracheal system. Postdoctoral work at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology exposed him to both the wet- and dry-bench sides of modern genomics and computational biology. As a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, his team of currently six biologists, computer scientists  and mathematicians works on experimental and theoretical studies of transcriptional regulation and transcription factors. In his spare time he enjoys playing computer games with his children, running and boxing. Continue reading →