The Editorial Board of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) is made up of practicing scientists whose expertise spans a broad variety of research topics in cell biology. Get to know a few of our MBoC editorial board members below, or view the full editorial board.
Lab Website:
reed.edu/biology/applewhite
Twitter: @ApplewhiteDerek
Derek Applewhite - Joined in 2021
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Lab Website:
vet.cornell.edu/research/faculty/avery-august-phd
Twitter: @averyxaugust
Avery August - Joined in 2021
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Lab Website:
dbarberlab.ucsf.edu
Diane Barber
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Patricia Bassereau
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Lab Website:
bement.molbio.wisc.edu
Bill Bement
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Lab Website:
bloomlab.web.unc.edu
Kerry Bloom
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Area(s) of Research
Chromosomes, centromeres, mitosis
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is run by your peers. We are practicing scientists and as Editors, share the philosophy that our job is to help make the paper the best it can be. We try to be as constructive as possible while providing guidance as appropriate. We strive toward the goal that an MBoC paper means your work is of the highest quality and your peers find it to be of significant interest to an audience of broadly minded cell biologists.
Lab Website:
https://reach.sickkids.ca/display/770816
Julie Brill
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Elizabeth Chen
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Area(s) of Research
Cell-Cell Fusion, Actin Cytoskeleton, Mechanobiology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
By publishing cutting edge and interdisciplinary research that stands the test of time.
Lab Website:
sciencesketches.org
Twitter: @SciSketch
Lisa Dennison
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Area(s) of Research
Science Communication
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
I'm passionate about helping scientists reach a broader audience with their work, whether that audience is the general public, or other scientists outside of their research niche. By offering authors the opportunity to create a fun and accessible video abstract to accompany their manuscript, I believe that MBoC will help researchers in all subject areas disseminate their work more widely.
Lab Website:
seas.upenn.edu/~discher
Dennis Discher
University of Pennsylvania
Area(s) of Research
Mechanobiology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Mechanobiology at the cell and molecular levels is a topic that both ASCB and MBoC have embraced. The Board has a range of expertise and draws from a long and growing list of knowledgable reviewers that appreciate solid work at the interface.
Lab Website:
http://www.math.ubc.ca/~keshet/keshet.html
Leah Edelstein-Keshet
University of British Columbia
Area(s) of Research
Models of cell motility and signaling
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
By providing excellent examples of quantitative reasoning in cell biology, as it is currently doing, or at least intending to do so.
Lillian Fritz-Laylin - Joined in 2024
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Tatsuo Fukagawa - Joined in 2024
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Lab Website:
gladfelterlab.web.unc.edu
Twitter: @GladfelterLab
Amy Gladfelter - Joined in 2021
Duke University
Area(s) of Research
Cytoskeleton organization, syncytial cells, phase separation
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC welcomes interdisciplinary work that addresses fundamental cell biology, offers a thoughtful review process, and provides space for discussion about our scientific culture.
Lab Website:
bs.jhmi.edu/goleylab
Erin Goley - Joined in 2020
Johns Hopkins University
Area(s) of Research
Bacterial cell biology, cytoskeleton, cell division, cell wall, stress responses
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
There may be a misconception that MBoC is focused solely on eukaryotic cell biology; not true! MBoC provides an ideal venue for those studying bacterial and archaeal cell biology to share their findings with the broader cell biology community, with the benefits of constructive peer review and fast turnaround in an innovative society journal. I hope to see MBoC grow in its position as a journal bacterial cell biologists turn to, both for sharing and finding impactful science.
Bruno Goud - Joined in 2021
Institut Curie/CNRS
Area(s) of Research
Membrane trafficking, small GTPases, biophysics
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC published and continues to publish many of the important papers in the field of intracellular transport and membrane trafficking. The reviewing process is fair and transparent. The board is composed of well-respected scientists with a wide range of expertise.
Sergio Grinstein Joined in 2022
University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children
Area(s) of Research
Membrane Biology, Ion Transport, and the Innate Immune Response
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is one of the rare journals where scientists care for scientists and help them bring their work to the public domain, with the emphasis being placed on coherence, rigour and reliability, rather than fashion and vanity.
Lab Website:
https://guptonlab.web.unc.edu
Twitter: @stephgupton1
Stephanie Gupton - Joined in 2022
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Area(s) of Research
cytoskeletal dynamics, membrane remodeling, cellular neuroscience
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is run by our scientific peers and the perfect home for studies of the fundamental behavior of cells, spanning many subdisciplines.
Lab Website:
worms.zoology.wisc.edu
Twitter: @jdhardin1959
Jeff Hardin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Area(s) of Research
Cell-cell adhesion, cell movement, morphogenesis
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC publishes cutting edge research at the interface of genetics, cell and developmental biology, including how the cytoskeleton, cell signaling, cell adhesion, and cellular mechanics feed into how embryos develop. It is one of my go-to journals. It values the important work many of us do in model systems, and its straightforward review process and the editorial board of practicing scientists mean that sending papers to MBoC is a great experience.
Lab Website:
liamholtlab.org
Twitter: @liamholtlab
Liam Holt - Joined in 2020
New York University School of Medicine
Area(s) of Research
Biophysics, cell biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a great place for fundamental research at the molecular scale.
Janet Iwasa - Joined in 2020
University of Utah
Area(s) of Research
Molecular visualization, scientific outreach and communication
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Visualizations--whether they take the form of images, illustrations, videos, or animations--can be incredibly useful tools for communicating results and ideas to diverse audiences. MBoC understands this value and is actively providing support to authors interested in creating effective scientific visualizations.
Marja Jäättelä - Joined in 2020
Danish Cancer Society Research Center
Area(s) of Research
Cancer, lysosome, autophagy, cell death, lipids, membranes, signaling
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC can offer a non-commercial option for publishing.
Twitter:
@KelloggLab
Douglas Kellogg
University of California, Santa Cruz
Area(s) of Research
Cell growth, cell size, cell cycle
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Through a review process that is fair and constructive and Features Articles that highlight issues of broad interest to the cell biology community.
Keith Kozminski
University of Virginia
Area(s) of Research
Polarized cell growth and synthetic biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a journal that promotes high-quality scholarship and, through its Features section, recognizes that people are at the heart of science, inclusive of their diverse scientific perspectives, histories, and career aspirations.
Lab Website:
https://www.lakadamyali-lab.com/
Twitter: @melike_lak
Melike Lakadamyali - Joined in 2022
University of Pennsylvania
Area(s) of Research
super-resolution microscopy, cytoskeleton, motor proteins, intracellular transport, chromatin, nuclear organization
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC being a highly respected society journal with rapid and balanced peer review culture, provides a nice venue for publishing high impact work. In particular, MBoC now accepts papers focused on method development, which is a great way for researchers in my scientific discipline, who develop new advanced microscopy and image analysis tools for cell biology, to publish their work.
Lab Website:
https://ronglilab.johnshopkins.edu/
Rong Li- Joined in 2022
National University of Singapore and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Area(s) of Research
Cytoskeletal dynamics and mechanics, cell division, morphogenesis and aging, genome stability and cellular evolution
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC publishes a wide range of topics in cell and tissue biology. These include not only traditional topics but also research in interdisciplinary fields, such as mechanobiology and cellular biophysics. The editorial board is composed of scientists who have broad expertise and appreciate new lines of inquiries and innovative approaches. Our editors always strive to provide fast, fair and constructive review to promote timely publication of findings that help move our fields forward.
Diane Lidke- Joined in 2022
University of New Mexico
Area(s) of Research
cell signaling, fluorescence microscopy, immunoreceptors, receptor tyrosine kinases
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a great home for interdisciplinary research, showcasing new technological methods and computational approaches that provide novel insights into cellular processes.
Xing Liu - Joined in 2024
University of Science & Technology of China
Area(s) of Research
Cell division, mitosis, microtubule, centromere, kinetochore
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC covers a wide range of topics within cell biology, including cell structure, function, and regulation. This broad scope allows researchers to stay informed about developments in related areas that might impact their own work.
Michael Marks - Joined in 2021
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/ University of Pennsylvania
Area(s) of Research
Endosomal membrane trafficking, lysosome-related organelle biogenesis, lysosome function
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
In my view, MBoC is THE home for high-quality basic cell biology research. As the official journal of the American Society for Cell Biology, MBoC gets great visibility to help authors get their work seen by a broad swath of the field. With a large panel of experts on the editorial board, membrane trafficking is well represented, ensuring high-quality reviews for high-quality work. Many of my most impactful papers have been published in MBoC, and I hope to help others achieve similar success.
Lab Website:
ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/users/mark-marsh
Twitter: @MarkCPMarsh
Mark Marsh - Joined in 2021
University College London
Area(s) of Research
Membrane trafficking, enveloped viruses
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
As a cell biologist and virologist, MBoC is one of the main journals for publishing our work. We rely on its high-quality, constructive reviewing, and quick turn-around to give us confidence that the papers published in MBoC report cutting edge, well-executed research.
Lab Website:
wp.unil.ch/martinlab
Twitter: @SophieMartinLab
Sophie Martin - Joined in 2020
University of Lausanne
Area(s) of Research
Cell polarization, actin cytoskeleton, cell fusion, yeast
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC has always been a place to publish no-hype, solid research in cell biology and will continue to be thanks to strong community engagement. I look forward to helping serve the community through constructive editorial work.
Lab Website:
www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/liz-miller
Twitter: @LizMillerCU
Elizabeth Miller - Joined in 2021
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Area(s) of Research
Cell biology, membrane traffic, endoplasmic reticulum, protein biogenesis
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a high-quality journal run by practicing scientists. The review process is thorough but fair, with an emphasis on research quality. It's an excellent choice for manuscripts that are not perceived to be "important" enough for the glamour journals.
Lab Website:
ccr.cancer.gov/Laboratory-of-Receptor-Biology-
and-Gene-Expression/tom-misteli
Twitter: @NCITomMisteli
Tom Misteli
National Cancer Institute
Area(s) of Research
The cell nucleus, chromosomes, chromatin
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is an ideal venue to have high-quality papers in any field of modern cell biology, fairly and quickly reviewed by colleagues in the field.
Lab Website:
cims.nyu.edu/~mogilner/LabPage.html
Alex Mogilner
New York University
Area(s) of Research
Computational biology, mitosis, cytoskeleton, cell motility
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is the type of journal that is becoming rare - free of unscientific pressures, completely objective, run by scientists, for scientists. It brings modest, yet exciting and solid cell biological research to the community. It also brings researchers in my area unbiased, computational-modeling-supported research on cell biology.
Kazutoshi Mori
Kyoto University
Area(s) of Research
Protein quality control and the unfolded protein response (UPR)
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC conducts a fair and constructive review for submitted manuscripts to publish papers with high quality and importance in various fields of cell biology.
Denise Montell
University of California, Santa Barbara
Area(s) of Research
Cell motility, cell survival, phagocytosis, developmental cell biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
A fast and fair review. Special issues. Timely review articles by leaders in the field.
Lab Website:
mukherjeelabucsf.com
Shaeri Mukherjee
University of California, San Francisco
Area(s) of Research
Membrane trafficking, host-pathogen interactions, bacteria, Endoplasmic Reticulum
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a very prestigious journal of ASCB, it publishes high quality inter-disciplinary research that is aimed at a broad audience. I find this journal very useful for researchers such as me who work at the interphase of cell-biology and microbiology.
Lab Website:
umassmed.edu/munsonlab
Twitter: @mary_munson4
Mary Munson - Joined in 2020
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Area(s) of Research
Membrane trafficking, especially mechanisms of exo- and endocytosis, membrane fusion, yeast and mammalian systems, biochemistry, structural biology, some immunology (neutrophils mostly)
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Fair and constructive reviews in a time-sensitive manner, which is something that MBoC has been good at for years. I'd like to see more papers using biochemistry/structural biology in my area. This is an area of cell biology that often falls through the cracks--many studies make important progress in an area, using biochemical techniques, yet may not interesting/novel enough for hard-core biochemistry/structural journals, and not cell biological enough for many cell biology journals.
Lab Website:
livingmatter.yale.edu
Michael Murrell - Joined in 2021
Yale University
Area(s) of Research
Mechanobiology, biophysics
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC helps researchers in our area by having dedicated issues on mechanobiology, which are curated to have relevance to the biological community. One of the larger challenges is showing how physical approaches can not only be applied to biology but where physical processes specifically have an impact on essential biological outcomes.
Lab Website:
oegemadesailab.org
Twitter: @oegemadesai_lab
Karen Oegema - Joined in 2020
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research/UCSD
Area(s) of Research
Cell division, cancer biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
By ensuring that a scientist-editor will handle your submission and help deal with any issues that arise during the review and revision process.
Lab Website:
olzmannlab.com
Twitter: @OlzmannLab
James Olzmann - Joined in 2020
University of California, Berkeley
Area(s) of Research
Lipid droplets, organelle biogenesis, metabolism, lipotoxicity, ferroptosis, proteome remodeling, ER-associated degradation (ERAD), protein quality control
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC benefits researchers by providing a venue for publishing high-quality cell biology research. MBoC academic editors facilitate a rapid and fair manuscript review process that ensures rigorous science while minimizing extraneous experiments. Publishing in MBoC also supports ASCB, a society that promotes cell biology research, education, community, diversity in STEM, and public policy.
Twitter: @Ott_MitoLab
Martin Ott - Joined in 2021
Gothenburg University
Area(s) of Research
Protein biogenesis, mitochondria, protein folding and quality control, stress-signaling, gene expression, respiratory chain, oxidative phosphorylation, S. cerevisiae, human cell culture
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is an excellent journal for solid and high-quality research. As a society-driven journal run by science enthusiasts, it has a long reputation to publish research central to our communities.
Lab Website:
faculty.ucmerced.edu/noviedo2
Nestor Oviedo - Joined in 2020
University of California, Merced
Area(s) of Research
Stem cells, tissue regeneration, developmental biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Appealing to the possibility of publishing work intersecting molecular regulators at the cellular and organismal level.
Lab Website:
imb.uq.edu.au/groups/parton
Twitter: @LabParton
Rob Parton - Joined in 2021
The University of Queensland
Area(s) of Research
Caveolae, endocytosis, membrane traffic, lipids, muscle
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is run by scientists working actively in the field. The review process is fast, transparent, fair, and constructive. A society journal with a range of innovative features and topical special issues that encompass a wide range of cell biology.
Twitter: @greg_pazour
Gregory Pazour - Joined in 2022
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Area(s) of Research
Cilia, Hedgehog Signaling, Intraflagellar Transport
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Communication of research through publication is critical to the scientific enterprise. Publication in MBoC gives your work wide visibility by being promoted to the entire ASCB community. The process is facilitated by peer editors that are experts in your field and will make fast and fair decisions about the suitability of the work for publication.
Lab Website:
pollardlab.yale.edu
Thomas Pollard
Yale University
Area(s) of Research
Cytokinesis, cell motility, endocytosis
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC publishes many of the top papers on cytokinesis, especially studies using yeast as a model system. The editors and reviewers treat authors with respect, offering helpful suggestions, even if a paper is rejected on scientific grounds.
Lab Website:
rodallab.org
Twitter: @RodalLab
Avital Rodal - Joined in 2020
Brandeis University
Area(s) of Research
Membrane traffic, neurobiology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a unique and excellent place to share discoveries about the cell biology of neurons with editors, reviewers, and readers who care deeply about cellular mechanisms and functions. In particular, this audience appreciates and values the unique adaptations of core cell biological processes in specialized nervous system cells, in diverse model systems. MBoC’s fair, fast, and expert editorial process also makes for a pain-free and constructive publishing experience for neurobiologists.
Lab Website:
neuroscience.nih.gov/ninds/rm_lab/index.html
Antonina Roll-Mecak - Joined in 2020
National Institutes of Health
Area(s) of Research
Cytoskeleton
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC published and continues to publish many of the important papers in the cytoskeleton field. It offers a constructive and efficient review process and a high-quality publishing platform for all exciting work in cell biology.
Lab Website:
https://ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/groups/saitou/
Mitinori Saitou - Joined in 2022
Kyoto University
Area(s) of Research
Germ Cells, Pluripotent Stem Cells, Epigenetics, Genome Regulation
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC publishes high-quality papers in all areas of cell biology and serves as an important platform for the progress of the cell biology of germ cells, pluripotent stem cells, and early embryos.
Twitter: @taschroer
Trina Schroer - Joined in 2021
Johns Hopkins University
Area(s) of Research
Microtubules, microtubule-based motors, centrosomes, cilia, cell polarity, membrane dynamics
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC publishes in a timely manner strong studies that stand the test of time. Their process respects both the author and reviewer and is fair and unbiased.
Lab Website:
https://www.goucher.edu/faculty/veronica-a-segarra
Twitter: @SegarraVeronica
Verónica Segarra - Joined in 2021
High Point University
Area(s) of Research
Autophagy, membrane traffic, diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC provides scientists not only with opportunities to publish scientific findings with editorial support from their peers, but also with Perspectives and Voices articles to highlight our fields of study as human enterprises that are evolving to become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
Lab Website:
skoplab.weebly.com
Twitter: @foodskop
Ahna Skop - Joined in 2020
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Area(s) of Research
Midbody, mitosis, cytokinesis, asymmetric cell division
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is the premier journal for cell biologists and can help raise awareness and promote women and URM scientists by highlighting them more often, in the journal and online.
Dominique Soldati-Favre - Joined in 2021
University of Geneva
Area(s) of Research
Parasitology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC offers a superb venue for the publication of high-quality science in the fascinating field of Parasitology. The journal is welcoming multidisciplinary approaches that address the complexity of host-pathogen interplay
Lab Website:
biozentrum.unibas.ch/research/researchgroups/overview/unit/spang/research-group-anne-spang
Twitter: @Spang_Lab
Anne Spang
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Area(s) of Research
Membrane dynamics, intracellular transport, endosome maturation, small GTPases, mRNA translation, mRNA transport, mRNA stability and decay, S. cerevisiae, C. elegans, mammalian cells
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC has always been the journal in which the highest quality papers in the area of membrane transport and dynamics, exo- and endocytosis, have been published. MBoC is also the place where high-quality papers are published, even and perhaps because they go against the current dogma. Those are usually not published in the very top journals because the reviewers are the ones who protect their turf. 1 of the 3 papers I'm most proud of in my career, is in MBoC! Poteryaev et al 2005.
Alexander Sorkin - Joined in 2021
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Area(s) of Research
Endocytosis; receptor tyrosine kinase signaling; dopamine transporter; ubiquitination
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a place to publish rigorous and solid research in all areas of cell biology.
Kandice Tanner - Joined in 2023
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Area(s) of Research
mechanobiology, cancer biophysics
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBOC has quickly become the venue to amplify excellence in quantitative biology.
Lab Website:
www.thibaultlab.com
Twitter: @Guillou76
Guillaume Thibault - Joined in 2023
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Area(s) of Research
Endoplasmic reticulum stress, unfolded protein response, protein folding and quality control, stress signaling pathways, lipid regulation, aging, S. cerevisiae, C. elegans, mammalian cells
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is highly reputed in the cell biology field. Its record speaks for itself. As a non-profit journal, it provides unbiased, rapid, and transparent reviews in the goal of communicating the latest high-quality science.
Sharon Tooze - Joined in 2021
The Francis Crick Institute
Area(s) of Research
Autophagy
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
By publishing good science which underlies all novel discoveries.
Lab Website:
trejolab.ucsd.edu
JoAnn Trejo - Joined in 2021
University of California, San Diego
Area(s) of Research
Receptor signaling and trafficking
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC provides thorough, rapid, and transparent reviews of research on cell signaling with an editorial process that is managed by scientists.
Lab Website:
biochemie.uni-osnabrueck.dely.com
Twitter: @UngermannLab
Christian Ungermann - Joined in 2021
University of Osnabrueck
Area(s) of Research
Endosomal and vacuolar biogenesis
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC provides a broad spectrum of cell biology literature, an excellent reviewing system, and a high-profile editorial board reflecting all different disciplines in cell biology. The papers are of high quality and many of them milestones in the field. MBoC papers should be guidelines of solid and high-quality research without aiming for the highest impact factor, but the most reliable and informative research in its field.
Lab Website:
walczaklab-iu.mystrikingly.com
Twitter: @WalczakLab_IU, @clairewalczak
Claire Walczak - Joined in 2020
Indiana University School of Medicine-Bloomington
Area(s) of Research
Genomic instability, microtubule motors and dynamics, mechanisms of chromosome segregation and aneuploidy
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is the journal of the American Society of Cell Biology. It represents our field and is led and run by a team of outstanding scientists. The goal is to publish high-quality science that defines in the broadest sense of how cell biology impacts many areas of science. It is important that as society members we support this journal with great work from our own lab and encourage colleagues to do the same. MBoC also supports the principles of DORA in evaluating every paper on its own merit.
Lab Website:
wallingfordlab.org/walczaklab-iu.mystrikingly.com
Twitter: @bwallingford
John Wallingford - Joined in 2021
University of Texas at Austin
Area(s) of Research
Morphogenesis, collective cell movement, ciliogenesis, cilia beating, birth defects
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
As the lines between cell biology and developmental biology blur, the opportunities to explore cell biological questions in vivo are increasing. Helping to spur more conversation between the two disciplines will benefit both.
Marvin Wickens
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Area(s) of Research
Biochemistry, molecular biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Fair reviews, without unwarranted emphasis on what is trendy or the hot topic, but judged by whether the work is interesting and well-substantiated experimentally.
Lab Website:
https://sites.northwestern.edu/wignall-lab/
Twitter: @swignall
Sadie Wignall - Joined in 2022
Northwestern University
Area(s) of Research
Cell division, cytoskeleton, meiosis
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC provides a great home for high-quality fundamental research in all areas of cell biology -- the review process is designed to be fair, constructive, and efficient. I look forward to supporting MBoC both as an editor and also by continuing to submit my own papers to this excellent journal.
Lab Website:
ccr.cancer.gov/RNA-Biology-Laboratory/sandra-l-wolin
Twitter: @NCISandraWolin
Sandra Wolin
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Area(s) of Research
RNA Biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
I believe that MBoC benefits our community by continuing to providing a home for high quality research in the broad area of cell biology. Like the society we represent, we strive to be a "big tent" in being inclusive and welcoming to researchers in every area of the very large discipline of cell biology. We also work to make sure that our colleagues' research is evaluated promptly, fairly and courteously.
Congying Wu
Peking University Health Science Center, China
Area(s) of Research
mechanobiology. cytoskeleton and cell migration.
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC connects me with the broad cell biology society and brings fresh air into my research.
Lab Website:
https://dsxt.ustc.edu.cn/zj_ywjs.asp?zzid=54
Xuebiao Yao
University of Science and Technology of China
Area(s) of Research
mitosis, cell polarity and regulated epithelial cell secretion
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC provides an interactive forum for exciting discovery in modern cell biology, from cell polarity to cellular dynamics. MBoC is a home for active cell biologists and run by interactive cell biologists.
Lab Website:
assafzaritsky.com
Twitter: @AssafZaritsky
Assaf Zaritsky
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Area(s) of Research
computational cell biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
Promoting quantitative aspects of cell biology - by helping cell biologists become aware of the potential and possibilities of data science, and opening data scientists up to the fascinating domain of cell imaging.
Xueliang Zhu
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Area(s) of Research
Cell motility and ciliary biology
How do you believe MBoC can benefit researchers in your area?
MBoC is a society journal of reputation. It can also benefit researchers by making full use of the expert monitoring editors for fair manuscript handling and panic-free publication.
Submit Your Next Great Paper to MBoC
MBoC provides constructive, fair peer review from working scientists, a format-neutral submission format, and a quick turnaround of manuscripts.
Submit your paper to MBoC at www.mbcpapers.org.