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REDOX BIOLOGY

society members ($500 for non-members). The journal is now irmly

established as the premier “gold” open access journal in our ield, has ANNUAL REPORT

a rapid decision and publication time so please send us your articles

in 2015!

PAPERS INVITED IN 2015 FOR ALL TOPIC AREAS INCLUDING

REDOX, BIOENERGETICS, AGING AND PATHOLOGY OF
JOYS OF
DISEASE.

The journal has now been online for 2 years and to MENTORING

date has over 230 accepted articles. The journal is

now listed in PubMed and is averaging over 25,000

downloads per month and is being widely accessed

At SFRBM 2014 in Seattle, the Trainee Council presented its augural across the world. We were sorry to see Tak Ye Aw,

Mentoring Excellence Award to Allan Butterield, Ph.D., University of Ph.D. step down from her position as Associate

Kentucky and Ines Batinic-Haberle, Ph.D., Duke University. Both the Editor and thank her for her sterling contribution in

Holly Van Remmen
recipients had a fews words to say about the Joys of Mentoring...
helping get the journal of the ground. We welcome

ALLAN BUTTERFIELD
on board Holly Van Remmen, Ph.D. who will be spear

heading our initiatives in the area of aging.

Since my research focuses on Alzheimer disease
We have initiated several novel publishing features for the Redox
and chemotherapy induced cognitive impairment
Biology ield including the graphical reviews, virtual collections, and
[see the SFRBM Discovery Award paper in
educational reviews. The virtual collections allow easy and rapid
FRBM 74:157-174 (2014) for details], students in

the laboratory are highly motivated, knowing access to papers on selected topics; to date we have collections

their research potentially will make a difference covering bioenergetics, proteostasis, proteasome and autophagy,

and our irst collection on redox signaling. The graphical reviews
the large number of persons affected by these
are focused overviews with research oriented schemes, which are
disorders.
designed to be downloaded for seminars, with accompanying text

My approach to mentoring is to require high elaborating the graphics. The educational reviews are designed for

standards of success in terms of research excellence. Students who
undergraduate and advanced graduate courses and are a teaching
join my lab understand from the beginning the high degree of effort
aid for those in our ield as well as comprehensive basic reviews. If
and motivation required of them: 1) PhD students in my lab will publish
you would like to prepare one of these please contact us.

twice the number of peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals
An article transfer service is in place for papers declined by FRBM
as the national average for dissertation research in chemistry in
which, when selected by the authors, transfers the paper and reviews
the usual 4-5 year time period; 2) They will demonstrate focus and
across to RB automatically and will be used by the editors to render
determination in their research tasks; 3) In addition, my students will

demonstrate assertion and conidence in expounding and defending a decision after a rigorous rebuttal of the FRBM review. To reduce

their ideas in a respectful, but determined, fashion. I provide an the burden on the peer review system we will consider any of your

articles declined from other journals with a rebuttal to the reviewer’s
encouraging, supportive, and safe environment for these expectations
comments for Redox Biology. Our new fees for 2015 will be $350 for
for their success. In short, they know they can depend on me to

SFRBM Newsletter // December 2014 // Joys of Mentoring

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