Erin McKiernan is a Researcher in Medical Sciences at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. She received her PhD in Physiological Sciences in 2010 from the University of Arizona. Her research involves the integration of experimental and computational approaches to solve diverse problems in epidemiology, physiology, and neuroscience. She is an advocate for open access, open data, and open source, and blogs about her experiences with open science at emckiernan.wordpress.com. You can follow her on Twitter @emckiernan13.