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Friday Evening Lecture Series
07/01/11
Lillie Auditorium, 8:00 PM
"What's in a Picture? The Temptation of Image Manipulation"
Mike Rossner, The Rockefeller University
Introduction by Ronald Vale
Lecture Abstract
The ease of image manipulation in powerful applications like Photoshop makes it tempting for scientists to adjust or modify digital image data. What can be done to prevent the publication of images that misrepresent what was actually observed? At The Rockefeller University Press (which publishes The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology), Dr. Rossner and his colleagues have developed guidelines to define the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable image manipulation. They feel an obligation to protect the published record by enforcing these guidelines, and thus all figures of all manuscripts accepted for publication in their journals are examined for evidence of manipulation. Dr. Rossner will present examples from actual cases and will present data he has garnered through a systematic screening process on the extent of data misrepresentation in a biomedical publication.
Mike Rossner is the executive director of The Rockefeller University Press. Dr. Rossner entered publishing after completing a degree and a postdoc in biomedicine. He earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology in the laboratory of Ken Murray at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied the hepatitis B virus. His postdoc was at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, with Don Metcalf, known for the discovery of colony stimulating factors, which encourage the growth of blood cells. Current Biology provided his first entry into scientific publishing, as an in-house editor of its journal Chemistry and Biology, and Dr. Rossner began his tenure at The Rockefeller University Press in the spring of 1997, as managing editor of the Journal of Cell Biology. He became editorial director of the press in 2003, expanding his purview to the operations of all three journals.
Dr. Ronald Vale will introduce Dr. Rossner. Dr. Vale is the William K. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Anesthesia and Chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Program at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. Vale is also a Co-Founder of Cytokinetics, Inc., a biotechnology company located in South San Francisco. Dr. Vale received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Neurosciences from Stanford University in 1985. Here at the MBL, he was a Staff Fellow in the Laboratory of Neurobiology for the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders (NINCDS) from 1985 to 1986. He was also an MBL Physiology Course instructor from 1992 to 1993 and is currently the Course’s Co-Director. Dr. Vale has served as a Chair of an NIH study section and is the co-editor (with Thomas Kreis) of the first and second editions of the Guidebook to Cytoskeletal and Motor Proteins and the Guidebook to ECM, Anchor and Adhesion Proteins. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including UCSF’s 46th Annual Faculty Research Lecture Award, the Biophysical Society’s Young Investigator Award, and the American Chemical Society’s Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. Dr. Vale is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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