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About Ben Johnson
I am Head of Communities & Engagement at Springer Nature with a role to provide training, guidance and support on our online communities. I worked at BioMed Central for 5 years, where I launched and developed new open access journals, including Microbiome, Zoological Letters and Cancer & Metabolism. Before that, I spent 8 years in research with a PhD in influenza virus innate immunity from the University of Reading and Health Protection Agency and then as a postdoc at Imperial College London researching smallpox vaccines, viral ion channels and apoptosis. Please get in touch with any training needs, technical questions or general comments!
Recent Comments
Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating and inspirational story! It is rare to get such a first hand account of the challenges of field work - as you say, the memory of field work vanishe...
Another great study from the Brazilian giant viruses group! Great work Jônatas and colleagues!
What a great history of microbiology publishing at Nature!
Please can you share the book review you wrote for Nature during your well-oiled flight...?
What a fascinating story! Ian used to work in the lab next door when we were both at Reading so I have had a long interest in his cat virus :)
Thank you for suggesting that Michaela also t...
Andy, it's been such a pleasure working with you on the Microbiology Community. All the best for the future, and you are always welcome to write about your new life on here!
Hi Shailesh,
We don't support pdf downloads of community posts at the moment. The web page is mobile optimised so it is easy to read on a smart phone or tablet. Hope that helps!
Ben
Hi Ranjeet and Gayetri, we now only allow invited contributors to write posts, as we had a large amount of inappropriate content. If you would like to be considered for this, please get in touch...
Lovely video, I could watch this for hours!