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Liz Allen

Director of Marketing and Business Development

Liz Allen is the Marketing and Business Development Director for all titles in the PLoS family. Her background includes eleven years at Nature where she worked in global marketing, launched new journals, and published original review supplements. She has also worked in a full-service advertising agency with clients in the pharmaceutical and medical fields. Liz thoroughly enjoys using her professional expertise gained with a traditional subscription publisher to benefit the innovative not-for-profit model of PLoS.

Allison Hawxhurst

Marketing/Advertising Project Manager

After graduating from New York University with a BA in Psychology, Allison started her career conducting behavioral pharmacology research at New York University Medical Center. She later joined The Rockefeller University Clinical Research Center, where she recruited volunteers, wrote grants, and edited research articles. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000 and worked in the information technology arena in the areas of operations and marketing. In 2004 she joined PLoS because she believes that the open exchange of scientific information, now possible through the Internet and its ability to connect researchers worldwide, will speed the advancement of science and progress toward finding cures to disease. Allison works closely with the PLoS marketing, executive, and journal teams, as well as coordinating activities of the Board of Directors. In her free time she is an avid promoter of local arts and community events.

Bora Zivkovic

Online Discussion Expert for PLoS

Bora was born in Belgrade (in what was Yugoslavia) and studied Veterinary Medicine at the University of Belgrade. He later immigrated to the US and received a Masters degree from the Department of Zoology at North Carolina State University. Bora currently lives in Chapel Hill where he has been teaching biology since 2000 to non-traditional students as an adjunct faculty at NC Wesleyan College. He is in the final stages of writing his PhD dissertation which he intends to defend by the end of the year.

Bora has been applying his personal experience as a science blogger for a number of years. His first blog, Science and Politics, was primarily a venue for his analysis of voter psychology and the use of language in campaigns. In 2005, he started a science blog, Circadiana, where he wrote about his own field of chronobiology and a few months later his third blog, The Magic School Bus, devoted to science education. In 2006, Bora fused all three blogs and renamed it A Blog Around The Clock. He uses this blog to promote building online science communities, bridge the divide between scientists and bloggers, and push for an open science model of publishing.