PLoS Community Journals Team
Catherine Nancarrow
Managing Editor
Catherine came to PLoS in January 2005 to coordinate the editorial, production, Web, and marketing efforts of the Community Journals - PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, and PLoS Pathogens - and to work with the Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Boards of these publications. She brings with her experience as both managing editor and development editor on peer-reviewed medical journals (wjm-western journal of medicine, Journal of Immunology, and American Journal of Roentgenology) and multivolume health science texts (ranging from Wintrobe's Hematology and The AIDS Knowledge Base to Equine Veterinary Medicine). In the variety of roles she has played, her focus is the timely and effective communication of scientific knowledge. Now at PLoS, she is especially pleased to contribute to efforts to make this knowledge freely available to all who may use or benefit from it.
Andy Collings
Publications Manager
Andy graduated with an English degree from the University of Southampton in 2003, and completed a further year at Oxford Brookes, before joining PLoS in March '05. He plays cricket (badly) for Camden CC in Cambridge, UK, and is almost as passionate about Chelsea FC as he is about open-access publishing. Andy's efforts are mainly focused on PLoS Genetics, for which he assists Catherine, Wayne, and the editorial team.
Shabnam Sigman
Publications Manager
Shabnam is lucky enough to have been with PLoS since March 2005, and considers herself even more fortunate to be the Publications Manager for the forthcoming open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. She obtained her bachelor's degree in biology from Saint Louis University in 1994, and her master's degree in journalism from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 (taking time between the two degrees to dabble in physiology research and, completely unrelated to that, to have a child). As Publications Manager, Shabnam works with the PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board, and she helps to coordinate PLoS' production, web, and marketing efforts toward the journal as well. She is passionate about making scientific research more accessible, especially in those parts of the world where the neglected tropical diseases are endemic.
Evie Brown
Publications Manager
Evie graduated in 2006 from the University of Edinburgh with a First in Classics, which is of very little use in the real world, but she does know a lot about Greek art and Roman unsanitary conditions. In her spare time she enjoys photography and live music and combining the two in a glorious mishmash. In her life she hopes to be able to travel and explore, and enjoys working for a company whose principles she fully supports.
Johanna Dehlinger
Publications Assistant
Rosemary Dickin
Publications Assistant
Rosie completed her degree in Natural Sciences in 2007 and joined PLoS in 2008. She contributes great enthusiasms for science outreach and human population genetics, as well as useful skills like tractor driving and hairdressing.
Mary Kohut
Publications Assistant
Mary ventured across the country to join PLoS in 2007, after graduating from Saint Michael's College in Vermont. Mary has a degree in journalism and global studies, with 11 years of writing, editing, interviewing, and photographing the world around her; including a semester abroad in Italy. Community media is Mary's passion, and thus she is thrilled to join the fight for open access (of course, in this case, for something a bit different). In her spare time, Mary enjoys creating art of many kinds, making music, performing slam poetry, meditating, and being in the forest.
Catriona Silvey
Publications Assistant
Catriona came to PLoS from the sheep-infested wilds of Scotland, via a degree in English at Cambridge University, and a year at the University of Chicago, where, outside of academic pursuits, she enjoyed being introduced to such novel concepts as Twinkies and the Superbowl. She is relieved that four years of literary study have not made her completely useless to society. In her spare time she enjoys playing the guitar incompetently and wandering Cambridge's pubs and cafés.
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