Title: How to publish in Science? 

Speaker: Dr. Valda Vinson, Deputy Editor, Science 

Time: 13:30, July 4, 2017, Tuesday (2017年7月4日，周二, 13:30) 

Venue: Lecture Hall, SIBS Main Building, 320 Yueyang Road (岳阳路320号生理楼报告厅)        

Organizer: Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS 

Biography of Speaker:
Valda Vinson started her career in publishing when she joined the Science staff in 1999. Since then, she has handled research papers in the areas of structural biology, biochemistry, and biophysics as an Associate and Senior Editor. She has also edited Perspectives and served as a team leader. In Dr. Vinson's role as Deputy Editor, she oversees research content in the area of cellular and molecular biology and biomedicine, working with biology editors to attract and select exciting research papers and reviews, while maintaining high editorial standards. She earned an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Durban University in 1987 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1992. Her postdoctoral studies were also undertaken at Johns Hopkins University, where she focused on structural and biochemical studies of cytoskeletal proteins. Before joining Science, she spent two years as a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.