John Fleischman

What’s True About the Canonical Genome, Except When It’s Not

January 20, 2016

The book world usually provides the metaphors for genomics, likening genes to words or chapters, but in his Keith Porter…

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Collective Behavior by Moonlight—Arctic Zooplankton Switch to Lunar Time in Winter

January 13, 2016

Given the growing interest in conceptualizing cell motility in terms of collective behavior by autonomous units, here is a novel…

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Clever Metaphor Tops ASCB Elevator Speech Contest

January 7, 2016

It was a short ride, up or down, in ASCB’s 60-second Elevator Speech Contest (ESC) and, for the judges, it…

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How Jennifer Doudna Turned Over the Proverbial Rock and Found CRISPR

December 15, 2015

The title of the upcoming Symposium at ASCB 2015 is okay, says Jennifer Doudna. A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)…

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ASCB Celldance 2015 Premieres—Now Is the Golden Age of Cell Imaging

December 14, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cell biology research comes in all shapes and methods these days but a common pursuit unites many labs—they make awesome…

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Labby “Outed” as ASCB Honors Thoru Pederson

December 14, 2015
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Ending ten years of excellent advice and clever misdirection, Thoru Pederson was “outed” Saturday night as Labby, the pseudonymous author…

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Clathrin? In a Work of Art? At ASCB 2015?

December 3, 2015

Alas, there have been few great works of art about cell biology and fewer still about endocytosis. Indeed, maybe none,…

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The Extraordinary Life of ASCB Founding Member Susumu Ito

November 30, 2015
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A sharp-eyed witness and self-effacing participant in many of the terrible historical and great scientific events of the last century,…

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Our People—Former ASCB President Liz Blackburn to Head Salk Institute

November 18, 2015

Elizabeth Blackburn, a winner of the Nobel Prize and former ASCB President, will become the next President of the Salk…

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Sallie “Penny” Chisholm: Tiny Cell with Global Impact

October 8, 2015
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Talking with ASCB 2015 Keynote Speakers: Biology on Global, Microscopic, and Political Scales An ASCB Interview in Two Parts Part…

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