Christina Szalinski

Newcomers and Cytoskeleton Classicists Find Common Cause in the Cell—Part Two of Scientific Highlights from ASCB/IFCB 2014

January 12, 2015

The ASCB/IFCB Meeting in Philadelphia last month saw many new faces in the poster alleys and on panel podiums. These…

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Cellular Footprints, Screening Leukemias with a Tunable Matrix, and Inducing Neurons from Fibroblasts—2014 ASCB/IFCB Meeting Highlights

January 8, 2015

Scientists came from around the world to present at ASCB’s joint meeting with the International Federation for Cell Biologists (IFCB)…

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Our People: Nine ASCB Members Among Awardees of Nearly $8 Million for Single Cell Research by NIH

January 1, 2015

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Tuesday grant awards totaling nearly $8 million for research towards understanding the workings of single…

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Eva Nogales Unpacks the Microtubule, Piece by Piece

December 23, 2014
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Our big, bony skeletons are wonders of articulation but they can’t come close to our cytoskeletons for sheer dynamism, says…

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“Factory Direct” Route for Lipid Transport Described at ASCB 2014

December 16, 2014

The cells in your body run a kind of Amazon.com warehouse, sorting, packaging, and shipping items with remarkable speed and…

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Announcing the Winners of the 2014 Share Your Science Video Contest

December 16, 2014
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Today Pinar Gurel announced the winners of the 2015 Share Your Science video contest. The goal of the contest was…

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A Hometown Pathogen the Hometown Would Like to Forget—Effector Protein’s Role in Legionella Described in Philadelphia

December 12, 2014

Philadelphia is an apt location to give a talk about Legionella pneumophila. The Legionella bacterium was discovered in 1977 after…

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Announcing COMPASS's Comic Contest Winners

December 9, 2014
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Today at the 2014 ASCB/IFCB meeting Pinar Gurel of the Committee for Postdocs and Students (COMPASS) announced the winners of…

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Superstar Scientists Share Visions for the Future of Research at ASCB/IFCB Meeting

December 8, 2014

A panel of bioscience superstars tried to throw some light on the gloomy outlook for cell research Saturday at the…

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Foldscope Inventor Manu Prakash Shows Students How to Reveal Aliens

December 7, 2014

An alien-like creature came in and out of focus on two large screens in a Philadelphia conference room yesterday. You…

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