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Pushing the boundaries of cell biology: Highlights of the 2017 ASCB|EMBO meeting

March 13, 2018

Nearly 7,000 scientists gathered in Philadelphia in December to learn, share, network, and celebrate all things cell biology at the…

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The complete scientist—A call to arms

March 13, 2018
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Last year, I was invited to speak at a “nonscientific” session of the Young MitoScientists Forum, a meeting organized by…

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The stranger in the lab: Staff scientists—who they are, what they do and how they improve academia

March 9, 2018
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When you think of lab personnel, you probably think of the PI, postdocs, graduate students and even some undergrads. However,…

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In Memoriam: Ian R. Gibbons, 86, dynein discoverer

March 8, 2018

Ian Gibbons, a long-time visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, died January 30, 2018. He was 86. Gibbons…

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ASCB issues comments on Next Generation Researchers Initiative

March 8, 2018

Soon after the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the creation of the Grant Support Index (GSI) in May…

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Lego Grad Student: Stepping one brick up in academia

March 1, 2018
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Academia can be filled with intense passion, fruitful discovery, and rewarding self-fulfillment. That’s the dream, right, the reason we are…

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In Memoriam: Uno Lindberg, 78, leading scholar in cell motility

February 28, 2018

Uno Lindberg, who elucidated the role of the profilin:actin complex in cell motility, died June 30, 2017 at the age…

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Paying it forward: how we can do better for our undergrads

February 23, 2018
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The vast majority of us discovered our love of research in our undergraduate career and some of us even earlier…

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In Memoriam: Günter Blobel, 81, Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist

February 20, 2018
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Günter Blobel, who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering protein guidance mechanisms, died February 18, 2018. He…

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In Memoriam: Morris J. Karnovsky, 91, pathology pioneer

February 20, 2018
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Morris J.  Karnovsky, the Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, past president of ASCB (1984), winner…

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