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Jessica Polka

January 01, 1970

Jessica Polka is a biochemist and the Executive Director of ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology), a non-profit initiative promoting innovation and transparency via preprints and open peer review.[1] She was one of the organizers of a recent meeting they held on scholarly communication.[2]

Jessica Polka
NationalityAmerican
Other namesJ. K. Polka
Alma materUniversity of California, San Francisco (PhD)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( (BS)
Scientific career
InstitutionsASAPbio
Whitehead Institute
Harvard Medical School
ThesisDiversity in the bacterial cytoskeleton: Assembly, structure, and cellular mechanisms of AlfA, a plasmid segregating actin from B. subtilis (2015)
Doctoral advisorDyche Mullins
Other academic advisorsPamela Silver
Websitejessicapolka.com

Education edit

Polka received a BS in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. While there, she was a Morehead Scholar.[3] She obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco under the supervision of Dyche Mullins in 2012.[4]

Career edit

In 2013 Polka became a research fellow in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School with Pamela Silver as advisor.[5] She was also held a visiting scholar at the Whitehead Institute in Massachusetts. Polka conducted research in the assembly, function, and applications of protein polymers in bacteria, such as membrane-breaking protein needles called R bodies.[6] Polka's work on R bodies was discussed in the American magazine The Atlantic,[7] and covered by the American Chemical Society.[8] Polka discovered that carboxysome, a protein organelle in cyanobacteria, grows like a crystal until it is coated by a layer of shell proteins.[5]

 
Negatively stained electron micrograph of purified R bodies in their extended (low pH) state, taken by Polka.

Polka was co-chair of the American Society for Cell Biology's COMPASS (Committee for Postdocs and Students) during 2013 and 2014.[4]

Improving research culture edit

Polka is on the steering committee for Rescuing Biomedical Research, an initiative to discuss solutions to problems addressed in the April 2014 PNAS article "Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws".[4][9]

Polka is recognised as having insight into issues surrounding open peer review, preprint and early career progression, and has been quoted in numerous articles by Nature and Science on these topics.[10][11][12][13][14][15][non-primary source needed] In 2015, Polka and Viviane Callier wrote an article for the careers column in Nature where they argue that funding agencies should support more than 16% of postdocs through fellowships. This would allow postdocs to "strike out away from the beaten path [and] will bring fresh ideas and approaches to the table".[16]

Future of Research edit

Polka was one of the organisers of the first Future of Research Symposium in Boston in 2014. She was on the executive committee until she became president of the board of directors in 2016.[17] Polka is involved in creating debate amongst early-career scientists about the financial, historical and political influences on academic research. Future of Research was awarded the People of the Year award in 2015 by Science journal for their "efforts to empower early-career and aspiring scientists...".[18]

ASAPbio edit

Polka was a founder of ASAPbio which began in 2015 after Ron Vale showed that University of California, San Francisco students were taking a long time to publish and proposed that preprinting might mitigate the issue.[19] Vale recruited Polka, Daniel Colon-Ramos and Harold Varmus which led to the first ASAPbio meeting in February 2016 attended by scientists, representatives from funding agencies, journals and preprint servers.[20] The meeting Polka led was widely recognized as a turning point in scholarly communication[2][21][22] and a catalyst moment in the so-called "preprint revolution" in biology and science more generally.[23] Polka began working full-time at ASAPbio in 2016 after funding was granted from the Simons Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Arnold Foundation, and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.[24]

In 2016 Polka was described in the journal Nature as an "agent of change" for explaining how junior researchers can increase the impact of their work. For instance, ASAPbio encourages preprints within biology.[25] ASAPbio tries to mitigate the effect of lengthy waiting times before publications are reviewed and published, following the example of physics, computer science and maths, fields that have already adopted preprints. She has also taken an interest in strategies for preventing sexual harassment in the scientific community.[26] In 2017, PLOScast interviewed Polka about her work which contributes to the changing way that science is published.[27]

Since 2019, ASAPBio has begun to host open databases to collate information about academic publishing practices.[28][29] ReimagineReview tracks the different peer review policies and models of academic journals, with a focus on experimental forms of peer review.[28][30][31] The Transpose database extends on this to cover journal policies including on peer review, co-reviewing, preprints, licensing, and versioning.[29][32][33]

Awards and honors edit

References edit

  1. ^ "About ASAPbio". ASAPbio. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  2. ^ a b "Biologists are working on a replacement for slow, stodgy peer review. It's a rainbow unicorn". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  3. ^ More-Cain Year in Review 2019 - 2020 (PDF). Morehead-Cain Foundation. 2020. p. 29.
  4. ^ a b c "Bio: Jessica Polka - Rescuing Biomedical Research". Rescuing Biomedical Research. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  5. ^ a b c "Jessica Polka - Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund". Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  6. ^ "Jessica Polka • iBiology". iBiology. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  7. ^ Yong, Ed (2016-02-17). "Biologists Steal Nanospear Technology From Bacteria". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  8. ^ "Punchy proteins could help advance drug delivery, MEMS devices (video) - American Chemical Society". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  9. ^ Alberts, Bruce; Kirschner, Marc W.; Tilghman, Shirley; Varmus, Harold (2014-04-22). "Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (16): 5773–5777. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111.5773A. doi:10.1073/pnas.1404402111. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4000813. PMID 24733905.
  10. ^ "NIH tweaks plan to award more grants to younger researchers". Science | AAAS. 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  11. ^ McKenzie, Lindsay (2017-06-16). "Biologists debate how to license preprints". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.22161. ISSN 1476-4687.
  12. ^ "New fellowship aims to increase diversity in the life sciences". Science | AAAS. 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  13. ^ Callaway, Ewen (2017-04-26). "BioRxiv preprint server gets cash boost from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative". Nature. 545 (7652): 18. Bibcode:2017Natur.545...18C. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.21894. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28470210.
  14. ^ Smaglik, Paul (2016-02-24). "Activism: Frustrated postdocs rise up". Nature. 530 (7591): 505–506. doi:10.1038/nj7591-505a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26918253.
  15. ^ Dolgin, Elie (2016-11-30). "Big biology projects warm up to preprints". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.21074. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 185520702.
  16. ^ Callier, Viviane; Polka, Jessica (2015-12-02). "Fellowships are the future". Nature. 528 (7580): 155–156. doi:10.1038/nj7580-155a. ISSN 0028-0836.
  17. ^ "Board of Directors". Future of Research. 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  18. ^ "People of the Year: Future of Research's postdoc activists". Science | AAAS. 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  19. ^ Vale, Ronald D. (2015-07-11). "Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology". bioRxiv. 112 (44): 13439–46. arXiv:1509.03775. Bibcode:2015PNAS..11213439V. doi:10.1101/022368. PMC 4640799. PMID 26508643.
  20. ^ "Attendees (2016 preprint meeting)". ASAPbio. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  21. ^ Harmon, Amy (March 15, 2016). "Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  22. ^ Callaway, Ewen; Powell, Kendall (2016-02-16). "Biologists urged to hug a preprint". Nature. 530 (7590): 265. Bibcode:2016Natur.530..265C. doi:10.1038/530265a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26887471.
  23. ^ "Are preprints the future of biology? A survival guide for scientists". Science | AAAS. 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  24. ^ "Foundations Announce Support for Scientist-Driven Effort to Promote Use of Preprints in the Life Sciences | Simons Foundation". www.simonsfoundation.org. 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  25. ^ Gewin, Virginia (2016-10-26). "Agents of change". Nature. 538 (7626): 543–545. doi:10.1038/nj7626-543a. ISSN 0028-0836.
  26. ^ Johnson, Paula A.; Widnall, Sheila E.; Benya, Frazier F., eds. (1 September 2018). Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. National Academies Press. pp. xii, 228. ISBN 978-0-309-47087-2.
  27. ^ "How ECRs like Jessica Polka are reinventing science publishing | PLOScast". PLOScast. 2017-10-24. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  28. ^ a b Noorden, Richard Van (2019-03-04). "Peer-review experiments tracked in online repository". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00777-8. S2CID 86845470.
  29. ^ a b Woolston, Chris (2019-06-18). "Unravelling the mysteries of preprints and peer review". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01947-4. PMID 32546808. S2CID 197826972.
  30. ^ "About". ReimagineReview. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  31. ^ "Launching ReimagineReview, a registry of peer review experiments". ASAPbio. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  32. ^ "Launching Transpose, a database of journal policies on preprinting & peer review". ASAPbio. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  33. ^ "Transpose". transpose-publishing.github.io. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  34. ^ "The $5,000 ASCB Kaluza Prize—And The Winner Is… - ASCB". ASCB. 2013-11-20. Retrieved 2018-08-14.

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Jessica Polka is a biochemist and the Executive Director of ASAPbio Accelerating Science and Publication in biology a non profit initiative promoting innovation and transparency via preprints and open peer review 1 She was one of the organizers of a recent meeting they held on scholarly communication 2 Jessica PolkaNationalityAmericanOther namesJ K PolkaAlma materUniversity of California San Francisco PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BS Scientific careerInstitutionsASAPbioWhitehead InstituteHarvard Medical SchoolThesisDiversity in the bacterial cytoskeleton Assembly structure and cellular mechanisms of AlfA a plasmid segregating actin from B subtilis 2015 Doctoral advisorDyche MullinsOther academic advisorsPamela SilverWebsitejessicapolka wbr com Contents 1 Education 2 Career 2 1 Improving research culture 2 1 1 Future of Research 2 1 2 ASAPbio 2 2 Awards and honors 3 References 4 External linksEducation editPolka received a BS in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 While there she was a Morehead Scholar 3 She obtained a Ph D in biochemistry from the University of California San Francisco under the supervision of Dyche Mullins in 2012 4 Career editIn 2013 Polka became a research fellow in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School with Pamela Silver as advisor 5 She was also held a visiting scholar at the Whitehead Institute in Massachusetts Polka conducted research in the assembly function and applications of protein polymers in bacteria such as membrane breaking protein needles called R bodies 6 Polka s work on R bodies was discussed in the American magazine The Atlantic 7 and covered by the American Chemical Society 8 Polka discovered that carboxysome a protein organelle in cyanobacteria grows like a crystal until it is coated by a layer of shell proteins 5 nbsp Negatively stained electron micrograph of purified R bodies in their extended low pH state taken by Polka Polka was co chair of the American Society for Cell Biology s COMPASS Committee for Postdocs and Students during 2013 and 2014 4 Improving research culture edit Polka is on the steering committee for Rescuing Biomedical Research an initiative to discuss solutions to problems addressed in the April 2014 PNAS article Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws 4 9 Polka is recognised as having insight into issues surrounding open peer review preprint and early career progression and has been quoted in numerous articles by Nature and Science on these topics 10 11 12 13 14 15 non primary source needed In 2015 Polka and Viviane Callier wrote an article for the careers column in Nature where they argue that funding agencies should support more than 16 of postdocs through fellowships This would allow postdocs to strike out away from the beaten path and will bring fresh ideas and approaches to the table 16 Future of Research edit Polka was one of the organisers of the first Future of Research Symposium in Boston in 2014 She was on the executive committee until she became president of the board of directors in 2016 17 Polka is involved in creating debate amongst early career scientists about the financial historical and political influences on academic research Future of Research was awarded the People of the Year award in 2015 by Science journal for their efforts to empower early career and aspiring scientists 18 ASAPbio edit Polka was a founder of ASAPbio which began in 2015 after Ron Vale showed that University of California San Francisco students were taking a long time to publish and proposed that preprinting might mitigate the issue 19 Vale recruited Polka Daniel Colon Ramos and Harold Varmus which led to the first ASAPbio meeting in February 2016 attended by scientists representatives from funding agencies journals and preprint servers 20 The meeting Polka led was widely recognized as a turning point in scholarly communication 2 21 22 and a catalyst moment in the so called preprint revolution in biology and science more generally 23 Polka began working full time at ASAPbio in 2016 after funding was granted from the Simons Foundation Sloan Foundation Arnold Foundation and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 24 In 2016 Polka was described in the journal Nature as an agent of change for explaining how junior researchers can increase the impact of their work For instance ASAPbio encourages preprints within biology 25 ASAPbio tries to mitigate the effect of lengthy waiting times before publications are reviewed and published following the example of physics computer science and maths fields that have already adopted preprints She has also taken an interest in strategies for preventing sexual harassment in the scientific community 26 In 2017 PLOScast interviewed Polka about her work which contributes to the changing way that science is published 27 Since 2019 ASAPBio has begun to host open databases to collate information about academic publishing practices 28 29 ReimagineReview tracks the different peer review policies and models of academic journals with a focus on experimental forms of peer review 28 30 31 The Transpose database extends on this to cover journal policies including on peer review co reviewing preprints licensing and versioning 29 32 33 Awards and honors edit Beckman Coulter Distinguished Graduate Student Prize American Society for Cell Biology 2013 34 Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship 2013 2016 5 References edit About ASAPbio ASAPbio Retrieved 2018 08 14 a b Biologists are working on a replacement for slow stodgy peer review It s a rainbow unicorn WIRED Retrieved 2018 08 15 More Cain Year in Review 2019 2020 PDF Morehead Cain Foundation 2020 p 29 a b c Bio Jessica Polka Rescuing Biomedical Research Rescuing Biomedical Research Retrieved 2018 08 14 a b c Jessica Polka Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Retrieved 2018 08 14 Jessica Polka iBiology iBiology Retrieved 2018 08 14 Yong Ed 2016 02 17 Biologists Steal Nanospear Technology From Bacteria The Atlantic Retrieved 2018 08 14 Punchy proteins could help advance drug delivery MEMS devices video American Chemical Society American Chemical Society Retrieved 2018 08 14 Alberts Bruce Kirschner Marc W Tilghman Shirley Varmus Harold 2014 04 22 Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 16 5773 5777 Bibcode 2014PNAS 111 5773A doi 10 1073 pnas 1404402111 ISSN 0027 8424 PMC 4000813 PMID 24733905 NIH tweaks plan to award more grants to younger researchers Science AAAS 2017 12 15 Retrieved 2018 08 15 McKenzie Lindsay 2017 06 16 Biologists debate how to license preprints Nature doi 10 1038 nature 2017 22161 ISSN 1476 4687 New fellowship aims to increase diversity in the life sciences Science AAAS 2016 09 21 Retrieved 2018 08 15 Callaway Ewen 2017 04 26 BioRxiv preprint server gets cash boost from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Nature 545 7652 18 Bibcode 2017Natur 545 18C doi 10 1038 nature 2017 21894 ISSN 0028 0836 PMID 28470210 Smaglik Paul 2016 02 24 Activism Frustrated postdocs rise up Nature 530 7591 505 506 doi 10 1038 nj7591 505a ISSN 0028 0836 PMID 26918253 Dolgin Elie 2016 11 30 Big biology projects warm up to preprints Nature doi 10 1038 nature 2016 21074 ISSN 1476 4687 S2CID 185520702 Callier Viviane Polka Jessica 2015 12 02 Fellowships are the future Nature 528 7580 155 156 doi 10 1038 nj7580 155a ISSN 0028 0836 Board of Directors Future of Research 2016 04 30 Retrieved 2018 08 14 People of the Year Future of Research s postdoc activists Science AAAS 2015 12 17 Retrieved 2018 08 15 Vale Ronald D 2015 07 11 Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology bioRxiv 112 44 13439 46 arXiv 1509 03775 Bibcode 2015PNAS 11213439V doi 10 1101 022368 PMC 4640799 PMID 26508643 Attendees 2016 preprint meeting ASAPbio Retrieved 2018 08 15 Harmon Amy March 15 2016 Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet New York Times Retrieved 2018 08 16 Callaway Ewen Powell Kendall 2016 02 16 Biologists urged to hug a preprint Nature 530 7590 265 Bibcode 2016Natur 530 265C doi 10 1038 530265a ISSN 0028 0836 PMID 26887471 Are preprints the future of biology A survival guide for scientists Science AAAS 2017 09 21 Retrieved 2018 08 16 Foundations Announce Support for Scientist Driven Effort to Promote Use of Preprints in the Life Sciences Simons Foundation www simonsfoundation org 2016 06 20 Retrieved 2018 08 15 Gewin Virginia 2016 10 26 Agents of change Nature 538 7626 543 545 doi 10 1038 nj7626 543a ISSN 0028 0836 Johnson Paula A Widnall Sheila E Benya Frazier F eds 1 September 2018 Sexual Harassment of Women Climate Culture and Consequences in Academic Sciences Engineering and Medicine National Academies Press pp xii 228 ISBN 978 0 309 47087 2 How ECRs like Jessica Polka are reinventing science publishing PLOScast PLOScast 2017 10 24 Retrieved 2018 08 14 a b Noorden Richard Van 2019 03 04 Peer review experiments tracked in online repository Nature doi 10 1038 d41586 019 00777 8 S2CID 86845470 a b Woolston Chris 2019 06 18 Unravelling the mysteries of preprints and peer review Nature doi 10 1038 d41586 019 01947 4 PMID 32546808 S2CID 197826972 About ReimagineReview Retrieved 2019 06 24 Launching ReimagineReview a registry of peer review experiments ASAPbio 4 March 2019 Retrieved 2019 06 24 Launching Transpose a database of journal policies on preprinting amp peer review ASAPbio 13 June 2019 Retrieved 2019 06 24 Transpose transpose publishing github io Retrieved 2019 06 24 The 5 000 ASCB Kaluza Prize And The Winner Is ASCB ASCB 2013 11 20 Retrieved 2018 08 14 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jessica Polka nbsp Scholia has an author profile for Jessica Polka Official website Rescuing Biomedical Research ASAPbio Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jessica Polka amp oldid 1217661937 ASAPbio, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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