Angèle Bénard-Sankaran Dec 19, 2019 · 4min read A few months ago, I received an email from a scientific journal “Infection, Genetics and Evolution” belonging to the by-now infamous publisher group Elsevier. This email contained a personal invitation to review a manuscript within the remit of my scientific expertise,...
“… to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit.” …is the first objective that appears in the official guidelines of the European Commission (EC),...
Angèle Bénard-Sankaran Oct 2, 2019 · 3min read Some energetic early birds, a few sleepy heads and a couple of late comers, all boarded a mini-bus on a fine Thursday morning in June to drive towards a cute village in Catalonia’s countryside. We were headed for two days of intense...
Karel De Pourcq Jun 14, 2019 · 2,5min read What is ISA? Well, yes, what the heck is this place? An easy question to ask, and perhaps a frequent one at that (locally). But it is not a simple one to answer, and not at all because things are...
Michela Bertero Jun 10, 2019 · 2min read No other city than Paris could have been a more ideal setting for our first story from “Affair(e)s in Science”. The city of love… but also of top-notch science. I was in Paris last March in one of the research institutes bearing...