Science incubators: synthesis centers and their role in the research ecosystem.

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How should funding agencies enable researchers to explore high-risk but potentially high-reward science? One model that appears to work is the NSF-funded synthesis center, an incubator for community-led, innovative science.

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001468

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Rodrigo, Allen, Susan Alberts, Karen Cranston, Joel Kingsolver, Hilmar Lapp, Craig McClain, Robin Smith, Todd Vision, et al. (2013). Science incubators: synthesis centers and their role in the research ecosystem. PLoS Biol, 11(1). p. e1001468. 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001468 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10193.

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Susan C. Alberts

Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology

Research in the Alberts Lab investigates the evolution of social behavior, particularly in mammals, with a specific focus on the social behavior, demography, life history, and behavioral endocrinology of wild primates. Our main study system is the baboon population in Amboseli, Kenya, one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world, ongoing since 1971.


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