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Get to Know an Academic Editor: Dr. Annie Angers

Note: we are attending the ASCB/EMBO annual meeting in Washington, DC from Dec 7-11. Stop by booth #708 and say hi to our very own Philip Mills. On December 9th, Executive Editor, Veronique Kiermer will join ASAPbio’s Jessica Polka at a Review Commons event.  You can register here

Dr. Annie Angers is in the Département de sciences biologiques at the Université de Montréal

Q: Can you tell us a little about yourself?

A: I am a professor in the department of biological sciences at the University of Montréal, Canada. I teach molecular and cell biology at all levels. My lab focuses on receptor internalization and inter-organelle trafficking in different cell types.

Q: How many years have you been an editor on PLOS ONE?

A: About two years.

Q: Why is PLOS ONE important to you and the community

A: The publishing criteria. Publishing good science and well-designed experiments in a wide variety of field makes PlosOne a very attractive journal.

Q: What is your area of study and why is it important?

A: I study mostly cellular physiology, focusing on inter organelle exchanges. I think this area is important because it is opening all kinds of new findings and challenges some of our current views of the cell. We are also expanding our work to non-model organisms that reveal that nature diversity is not only present at the species levels, but also at the cellular and molecular levels.

Q: What first drew you into the field?

A: I was first attracted to the field by the findings that internalized receptors continued to signal and had access to a whole new range of effector molecules once at the endosomes. Since then, our molecular toolbox has expanded tremendously, and there is no limit to the questions that we can expect to answer too.

Q: Are there any trends in your field right now?

A: To me, the most notable trend is revisiting very fundamental questions with molecular and imaging tools that we could only dream of 15-20 years ago.

Q: Why do you believe in Open Science?

A: Open Science is only common sense in the academic world of publicly funded research. From day one as a graduate student you learn that no matter how good your ideas, they are useless if you don’t share them with the world. The best science is of no use if other researchers don’t have access to it. Therefore, putting your research behind a paywall makes no sense at all.

 

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