The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is proud to announce the selection of 24 Early-Career Editors to join the board of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), the Society’s basic research science journal. This new group of pre-tenure faculty and postdocs will be responsible for highlighting preprints posted on bioRxiv. Their contributions will alert MBoC readers to the latest research, provide readily digestible summaries for preprint readers, and add visibility for authors.
MBoC’s Early-Career Editors will apply Significance Statements and Badges to summarize and convey important aspects of selected preprints, which will be published in MBoC and displayed with the preprint on bioRxiv. Supported by a Learned Society Curation Award from the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ASCB is developing these curation tools for preprints and for MBoC articles. Significance statements will highlight key findings and advances, and badges will highlight specific aspects of the work such as advancing a new concept or methodology, providing open datasets, or having instructional value.
“This new group of editors is a valuable addition to MBoC and ASCB’s community,” says MBoC Editor-in-Chief Matt Welch. “Early-Career Editors will also receive training and mentorship from senior MBoC editors to support their growth as they continue to rise as future leaders in their research communities.”
The Early-Career Editors will serve in this volunteer role for one to two years, and we will have a recurring application cycle to recruit additional members each year. As this is the initial pilot phase of an evolving project, we look forward to the future of this group and its activities.
Introducing the 2021 MBoC Early-Career Editors
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Kristina Aguilera University of California, Los Angeles |
Postdoc |
Cancer therapeutics |
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Alexandre Bisson Brandeis University |
Faculty |
Cell biology of Archaea |
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Luis Bonet-Ponce National Institutes of Health, NIA |
Postdoc |
Lysosomal biology, Parkinson’s disease, Membrane trafficking, Neurodegeneration |
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Michael Burton University of Texas at Dallas |
Faculty |
Neuroscience, Immunology, Cell biology |
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Sabrya Carim University of Montréal |
Postdoc |
Cytokinesis, Cell division |
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Fadie Coleman Boston University School of Medicine |
Faculty |
Cellular immunology, Microbial pathogenesis |
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Jacqueline De Lora Max Planck Institute for Medical Research |
Postdoc |
Synthetic biology, Organoid Biology, Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Optogenetics |
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Samuel Dean University of Warwick |
Faculty |
Trypanosomes, Parasite, Cell biology, Flagellum, Ciliopathy, Molecular genetic tools |
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Gautam Dey European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
Faculty |
Evolutionary cell biology, Microbiology, Cell division, Nuclear architecture and remodeling |
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Omaya Dudin Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Faculty |
Cell biology, Evolutionary cell biology, Microbiology |
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Seham Ebrahim National Institutes of Health, NCI |
Postdoc |
Cytoskeleton, Cell biology, Intravital microscopy, Electron microscopy |
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Jacob Herman Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Postdoc |
Chromosome segregation, CRISPR technologies, Cancer biology |
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Jennifer Landino University of Michigan |
Postdoc |
Cytokinesis, Cytoskeleton, Live imaging |
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Keren Lasker Scripps Research |
Faculty |
Microbiology, Biomolecular condensates, Integrative modeling |
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Dasfne Lee-Liu University of Chile |
Postdoc |
Aging, Brain metabolism, Neuron-astrocyte interaction, Transomics |
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Grace Lim Agency for Science, Technology and Research |
Postdoc |
Developmental biology, Stem cells |
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Adriana Mantegazza Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Faculty |
Dendritic cells, Phagocytosis, Trafficking, Autophagy, Inflammasomes |
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Rashmi Priya The Francis Crick Institute |
Faculty |
Morphogenesis, Mechanics, Organogenesis, Heart development |
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Daniel Rios Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Faculty |
Cell and developmental biology |
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Lindsey Seldin Vanderbilt University |
Postdoc |
Epithelial stem cells, Plasticity, Microenvironment |
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Viji Subramanian Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Tirupati |
Faculty |
Chromosome structure and organization, Genome stability, Meiosis |
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Daisuke Takao University of Tokyo |
Faculty |
Cell biology, Imaging, Biophysics, Data science |
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Assaf Zaritsky Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Faculty |
Computational cell dynamics, Quantitative microscopy |
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Huaiying Zhang Carnegie Mellon University |
Faculty |
Phase separation/Biomolecular condensates |
