John Fleischman

Keynote Talks Take the Very Long View at ASCB/IFCB 2014

January 20, 2015

ASCB’s joint meeting in Philadelphia with the International Federation for Cell Biology (IFCB) last month was all about crossing borders.…

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ASCB Council Gets Photo Bombed in Philly

December 24, 2014

Photographer James McWilliams asked the distinguished senior scientists gathered in Philadelphia this month for the ASCB Council meeting to relax.…

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The Iron Double Cross

December 22, 2014

Our genomes reveal the evolutionary battle between human hosts and bacterial “iron pirates” over the protein transferrin that transports iron…

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NIH Leaders “May” Require Info on Cell Lines as Reproducibility Problem Persists

December 18, 2014

In a commentary published today in Science, top leadership from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the ASCB responded…

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Shuffle Round the House with Your Nobel Jibe Leads to CellSlam Tie-Breaker in Philly

December 17, 2014

It came down to a one-joke showdown. The Zombie CellSlam, ASCB’s juried stand-up, science slam, back from the Undead for…

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ASCB Council Broadens Diversity Mandate for LGBT Scientists

December 11, 2014
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It’s encouraging, says Bruno Da Rocha-Azevedo, a postdoc at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas about the…

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What Goes Up—Elevator Speech Ends on Triumphant Note

December 10, 2014

In 60 second intervals, ASCB’s one-minute, mostly-selfies, elevator speech video contest came down to its final round Tuesday afternoon at…

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A Little Night Music, A Lot of Cell Biology—The Two Lives of Larry Goldfinger

December 8, 2014

Saturday night, Larry Goldfinger was wailing on his clarinet, punching out Bulgarian wedding music and Romanian ballads with his Balkan…

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Celldance 2014

December 8, 2014

“Killing Cancer, Cytotoxic T-Cells on Patrol” by Alex Ritter, NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, is one of three “Tell Your Own…

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A Long Way to Give a Lecture—Avery August’s Road to the E.E. Just Lecture at ASCB/IFCB 2014

December 7, 2014
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Avery August who will give the E.E. Just Lecture at 3:00 pm at the 2014 ASCB/IFCB meeting has traveled a…

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