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List of works by Jessica K. Polka

A Tunable Protein Piston That Breaks Membranes to Release Encapsulated Cargo

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

A call for transparency in tracking student and postdoc career outcomes

scientific article

A giant leap for womankind

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A systematic examination of preprint platforms for use in the medical and biomedical sciences setting

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Accessory factors promote AlfA-dependent plasmid segregation by regulating filament nucleation, disassembly, and bundling

scientific article

An open letter to AAAS journal "Science": Postdocs need to address the "The Future of Research"

Architecture and Assembly of a Divergent Member of the ParM Family of Bacterial Actin-like Proteins

scientific article (publication date: 21 February 2011)

Bacterial Tubulins A and B Exhibit Polarized Growth, Mixed-Polarity Bundling, and Destabilization by GTP Hydrolysis.

scientific article

Biomedical Journals and Preprint Services: Friends or Foes?

scientific article

Building Spatial Synthetic Biology with Compartments, Scaffolds, and Communities

scientific article

Building synthetic cellular organization

scientific article

Column: A wake-up call

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-07-09

Cryo-EM structure of the bacterial actin AlfA reveals unique assembly and ATP-binding interactions and the absence of a conserved subdomain.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Fellowships are the future

scientific article published in Nature

Implications for kinetochore-microtubule attachment from the structure of an engineered Ndc80 complex

scientific article

Induced sensitivity of Bacillus subtilis colony morphology to mechanical media compression

scientific article published on 30 September 2014

Induced sensitivity of Bacillus subtilis colony morphology to mechanical media compression

Interventions in scholarly communication: Design lessons from public health

Junior researchers: Fewer papers would scotch early careers

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Logistics of Organizing the FOR Symposium

Making science a desirable career

scientific article published on December 2014

Microtubule nucleating gamma-TuSC assembles structures with 13-fold microtubule-like symmetry

scientific article

Non-model model organisms.

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

PReF: describing key Preprint Review Features

scientific article published on 27 January 2022

Peer review and preprint policies are unclear at most major journals

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Peer review and preprint policies are unclear at most major journals

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Publish peer reviews

scientific article published in Nature

Rapid sharing of COVID-19 research

scholarly article by Jessica Polka published in 2020

Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists

scientific article

Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists

scientific article published on 09 January 2015

Super-resolution microscopy of the ß-carboxysome reveals a homogenous matrix.

scientific article published on 09 August 2017

Synthetic Lipid-Containing Scaffolds Enhance Production by Colocalizing Enzymes

scientific article published on 3 August 2016

Synthetic lipid-containing scaffolds enhance production by co-localizing enzymes

article

Systematic examination of preprint platforms for use in the medical and biomedical sciences setting

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Technical aspects of preprint services in the life sciences: a workshop report

scientific article

Ten simple rules for considering preprints

Ten simple rules for considering preprints

Ten simple rules to consider regarding preprint submission

scientific article (publication date: 4 May 2017)

The DocMaps Framework for representing assertions on research products in an extensible, machine-readable, and discoverable format

scientific article published on 15 July 2021

The bacterial carbon-fixing organelle is formed by shell envelopment of preassembled cargo

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape

scholarly article by Nicholas Fraser published in 2021

The structure and assembly dynamics of plasmid actin AlfA imply a novel mechanism of DNA segregation

scientific article

Together scientists and journalists can spot poor preprints

scientific article published in Nature