John Fleischman

A Postdoc’s Tale of Two Cities

May 14, 2015

From orderly Salt Lake to chaotic Naples, postdoc Dustin Bagley outside the TIGEM lab at Pozzuoli. ASCB photo by John…

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Our People—National Academy Showers Membership and Awards on 11 ASCBers

May 7, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Nine ASCB members—eight national and one foreign associate—have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, the…

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In Memoriam: Alan Hall, Pioneer in Rho GTPases and Chair of Cell Biology at Sloan-Kettering

May 4, 2015
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Alan Hall, a wary biochemist who became an enthusiastic cell biologist, and whose discovery that Rho, a Ras-related GTP-binding protein,…

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Inside the Mind of NIGMS—You Never Know Where the Next CRISPR Will Come From

April 30, 2015

If there ever was a Golden Age in bioscience research, it was 1998-2003, or so say those who lived through…

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Our People—Three Named to American Academy, One Explains Deanship, and One Gets Rave Review in Clinic

April 29, 2015

The American Academy Calls for Ecker, Schmid, and Snyder Three longtime ASCB members—Joseph R. Ecker of the Salk Institute for…

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From Skin Cells to Stem Cells, Pioneer Researcher Elaine Fuchs Wins Cell Biologists’ Highest Honor

April 21, 2015

Hailed as a pioneer in exploring the basic principles of stem cell biology, Elaine Fuchs of Rockefeller University will receive…

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Hitting the Drug Target—Can a 3D Cell Cycle Scoring System Help Understand What’s Really Going on in Tumors?

April 20, 2015

The promise of targeted cancer therapies depends on knowing which target is truly being hit. Say you have an effective…

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A Must-Read Report in Nature on the Postdoc Glut and Where We Go from Here

March 10, 2015

It shouldn’t be news to anyone in the biological research community that in the United States the so-called scientific workforce…

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A New Controller for Thomas the Tubulin Engine

February 24, 2015

Devotees, past and parental, of Thomas the Tank Engine may recall the differences between English railway language and American railroad…

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WICB Senior Leadership Award Renamed for WICB Chair Sandy Masur

February 23, 2015
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A better namesake could not be found, said Ursula Goodenough, former chair of ASCB’s Women in Cell Biology (WICB) Committee…

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