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EMBO Event

Publishing & Peer Review: Introduction to Modern Scientific Publication

30 – 31 October 2025 | Online

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  • Application Deadline
  • 03 October 2025
  • Selected Participants Will Be Notified By
  • 10 October 2025

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About the Event

This workshop introduces early career researchers to the manuscript submission and peer review process at scientific journals, from first submission to acceptance.

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About the trainers:

Thiago Carvalho received his Ph.D. at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Lisbon, Portugal) in 2003 and postdoctoral training at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, both in immunology. Dr. Carvalho was Head of Graduate Programs for the Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Graduate Studies Coordinator for the Champalimaud Foundation, and senior scientific editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

David del Álamo received his PhD in developmental biology at the Severe Ochoa Center for Molecular Biology in Madrid and postdoctoral training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Dr. del Alamo was the head of the EMBO Fellowship Programme, scientific editor for The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports and Review Commons, and scientific consultant for The Journal of Cell Biology and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

 
 

Programme

Before the course, participants will submit a CV in any format and a brief statement on their main research interests, and these provide the basis for the course workshop sessions.

During the course, participants will learn about the full “life cycle” of a manuscript at a journal but also about newer publication formats such as preprints and Open Science concepts. Participants will discuss concepts such as authorship, research integrity and reproducibility from the point of view of authors, readers, reviewers, and funders.

After the course, participants will be asked to submit a manuscript evaluation of an existing preprint. This will be modelled on the "manuscript test" used by journals when hiring new editors.

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Topics covered:

Participants learn how manuscripts are processed and evaluated, including:

  • the roles of the editors, peer reviewers, academic editorial board members, and journal staff
  • the different stages of a manuscript's "life cycle", from uploading to publication;
  • the documents and data requirements for journal submission;
  • research integrity issues in scientific publication, including post publication reviews and comments.

Participants will write and critique peer reviews from actual manuscript submission files taken from the contemporary scientific literature, with a focus on best practices in peer review, how to respond to reviewer comments, and how to communicate with editors.

 

Registration

  • Application Deadline
  • 03 October 2025
  • Selected Participants Will Be Notified By
  • 10 October 2025

 

Selected participants will be required to pay a registration fee, which will be collected by IndiaBioscience. Details regarding the fee will be shared with selected participants via email.

.Selection criteria

A total of 20 senior PhD students and junior postdoctoral researchers will be selected to attend this course.

Applicants will be selected by a panel of researchers and faculty based on the following criteria:

  • Current career stage - priority will be given to senior PhD students and junior postdoctoral researchers

    • Senior PhD students - in the last 2 or 3 years of their PhD and who may be applying for a postdoctoral fellowship within the next 2 or 3 years

    • Junior postdoctoral researchers - within the first 2 years after completing their PhD and who may be applying for a fellowship soon (just joined the postdoc lab and is looking for funding or plans to move to a different place after a short postdoc)

  • Prepared to provide the trainers, prior to the start of the course, CV in any format and brief statement on main research interest to then work on during the course

  • Motivation statement


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Important note:

To secure their place in the course, shortlisted applicants will be asked to present an endorsement letter from their supervisors (or equivalent) stating they will be freed from other responsibilities during the hours of the course (2 consecutive half-days).

Code of conduct

Anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy

At EMBO, we believe that harassment and discriminatory behaviour are unacceptable in any setting. EMBO's code of conduct is applicable for all participants of this course and can be found here.

 

Contact

EMBO Global Activities Office, global@embo.org

IndiaBioscience, hello@indiabioscience.org

 

 

Venue

This course will be online. If selected, a link will be sent to access the course prior to the start date.