Science can only flourish if journals maintain minimal standards, and papers are read critically. Professor David Vaux will propose ten rules of thumb for the presentation of data in publications that can be used in writing publications and also when interpreting other people’s papers.His talk will include many humorous and shocking examples in numerous papers by high profile researchers in prestigious journals. This presentation is not to be missed!
Monday 11 May 2015, 3 – 5pm
Lecture theatre S4, 16 Rainforest Walk (building 25), Clayton campus
David Vaux is Deputy Director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia.
He obtained a medical degree from the University of Melbourne in 1984; a PhD from The Walter
and Eliza Hall Institute in 1989; and did a post-doc from 1989 to 1992 in Irv Weissman’s lab at Stanford. His research field is cell death, and he is best known for his work on inhibitors of cell death such as the Bcl2 and IAP families of proteins. He has an interest in critical analysis of data in publications, and misuse of statistics and Photoshop.
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