"Preprints: communication at the speed of science"
Richard Sever is Assistant Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and Co-Founder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv. He also serves as Executive Editor for the Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives and Cold Spring Harbor Protocols journals and launched the precision medicine journal Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies.

After receiving a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University, Richard obtained his PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. He then moved into editorial work, first as an editor at Current Opinion in Cell Biology and later Trends in Biochemical Sciences. He subsequently served as Executive Editor of Journal of Cell Science, before moving to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2008.
Date: 23 May 2019, 15:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Speaker: Dr. Richard Sever (Assistant Director of CSHL Press and Co-Founder of the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv)
Organising department: Department of Biochemistry
Organiser: Professor Stephen Tucker (Biological Physics Group, Oxford Department of Physics)
Organiser contact email address: stephen.tucker@physics.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )
Part of: Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Sarah-Jane Scard