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Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly by Dr Florian Markowetz
8 October 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UTC+0
About the speaker
Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent) in Computational Biology from Free University Berlin, for which he was awarded an Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. His group at the CRUK Cambridge Institute combines computational work on cancer evolution and image analysis of the tumour tissue with experimental work on understanding key cancer mechanisms like the estrogen receptor.
About the talk
And so, my fellow scientists: ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for you! In my talk, I will present five reasons why working reproducibly pays off in the long run and is in the self-interest of every ambitious, career-oriented scientist.