ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants

As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.

Hope Leman is a Research Information Technologist at Samaritan Health Services. She runs ScanGrants (a free, subscribable (via email or RSS) online listing of grant opportunities, prizes and scholarships in the health and life sciences and community service fields), tweets and blogs on Significant Science. At the conference, Hope will do a demo of ScanGrants.

Ernie Hood is a freelance science writer and he hosts a weekly science radio show - Radio In Vivo - at the local radio station WCOM-FM in Carrboro, NC. Ernie is currently presiding over SCONC - the organization of Science Communicators of North Carolina.

Elle Cayabyab Gitlin writes for Ars Technica, blogs and tweets. And she is always a great help to us at the conference, every year volunteering to help.

Peter Janiszewski is an Obesity Researcher (PhD Candidate) in the Exercise Physiology Lab at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada, a Science/Health Blogger at Obesity Panacea, a freelance writer, a musician, and a Twitterer.

Jayme Corbell, another veteran of our conferences, got her PhD in chemistry at Duke and now works at Catalent.

Jonathan Lifland is the Media and Communications Manager at PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) and is on Twitter