American Society for Cell Biology

The American Society for Cell Biology
Founded 1960 (1960)
Location
Members
 9,000
Key people
 Shirley M. Tilghman (President), Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Past-President), Peter Walter (President-Elect), Stefano Bertuzzi (Executive Director), Thoru Pederson (Treasurer), Kathleen Green (Secretary)
Slogan The science of life, the life of science
Website www.ascb.org

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in 1960.[1][2][3]

Its mission statement says:

ASCB is an inclusive community of biologists studying the cell, the fundamental unit of life. We are dedicated to advancing scientific discovery, advocating sound research policies, improving education, promoting professional development, and increasing diversity in the workforce.

History

On 6 April 1959 the United States National Academy of Sciences passed a resolution for the establishment of a "national society of cell biology to act as a national representative to the International Society for Cell Biology".[3][4]

By 1963, the membership consisted of 9,000 scientists.[5] In 2008 it was reported that ASCB had 11,000 members worldwide.[6]

Publications

Print publications:

Online publication:

Annual meeting

Typically held within the first two weeks of December, the ASCB's annual meeting brings together scientists in the field of cell biology to highlight the latest research, techniques, products, and services, providing a venue for networking and career advice, offering research-tested educational approaches for high school teachers and professors who teach undergraduates, and to spur future discovery and collaboration. The ASCB also presents awards, poster sessions (where students, postdoctoral fellows, and independent scientists present their research and receive feedback), scientific sessions (symposia, minisymposia, working groups, workshops, translational sessions, special interest subgroups, award lectures, and exhibits). Science discussion tables offer opportunities to discuss scientific topics with expert scientists, and the career discussion roundtables offer a variety of career topic-themed tables addressed with expert facilitators. In addition, special sessions focus on advocacy, media and public outreach, and special issues of interest to women, minorities, gay, lesbian, and transgender students/scientists, the media, etc.

Awards

Presidents

The following people have been elected president of the ASCB:[17]

Committees

San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

At the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco in 2012, scientists developed the Declaration on Research Assessment, which calls for scientific output to be measured accurately and evaluated wisely.[25] It also calls for scientists and institutions to reevaluate the use of impact factor to assess individual scientific efforts.[26]

References

  1. ↑ "American Society for Cell Biology".
  2. ↑ Margaret Fisk, ed. (1973). "American Society for Cell Biology". Encyclopedia of Associations: National organizations of the U. S 1. Gale Research Company. p. 380.
  3. 1 2 American Society for Cell Biology records - Historical Note, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Accessed February 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ William Bechtel (2006). "Giving Cell Biology an Institutional Identity". Discovering cell mechanisms: the creation of modern cell biology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 268–277. ISBN 0-521-81247-X.
  5. ↑ "unknown". Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 56 (156–157): 304.
  6. ↑ Seth Shulman (2008). Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration. University of California Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-520-25626-3.
  7. ↑ "ASCB Newsletter".
  8. ↑ "The ASCB Post".
  9. 1 2 Guide to the Keith R. Porter Papers (1938–1993), University of Colorado at Boulder University Libraries Archives Department
  10. ↑ "MBoC Paper of the Year". ASCB. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  11. ↑ "O’Neill to Receive MBoC Paper of the Year Award | Anesthesiology | Washington University in St. Louis". anest.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  12. ↑ Lofley, Lin. "2012 Nominata winner honored as first Kaluza Prize recipient". UT Southwestern Medical Center. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  13. ↑ "ASCB/Beckman Coulter Kaluza Prize". ASCB.
  14. ↑ "ASCB Announces Third Annual Kaluza Prizes for 10 Outstanding Young Scientists". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  15. ↑ "Three early career cell biologists win $5,000 ASCB-Gibco Emerging Leaders Prizes". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  16. ↑ "Ahmet Yildiz Awarded Early Career ASCB-Gibco Emerging Leaders Prize | UC Berkeley Physics". physics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  17. ↑ "ASCB Past Presidents".
  18. ↑ "Yale’s De Camilli Elected ASCB 2017 President".
  19. 1 2 "ASCB Officers".
  20. ↑ "News & Views". Scripps Research Institute. Retrieved 14 Sep 2009.
  21. 1 2 3 4 Catherine Brady (2007). Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres: deciphering the ends of DNA. MIT Press. pp. 172–4. ISBN 0-262-02622-8.
  22. ↑ Endow, Sharyn A.; Nizami, Zehra F.; Gerbi, Susan A. (5 July 2013). "A remarkable career in science—Joseph G. Gall". Chromosome Research 21 (4): 339–343. doi:10.1007/s10577-013-9369-5. PMID 23828690.
  23. ↑ Pioneering cell biologist Hewson Swift, Ph.D., 1920–2004, University of Chicago News Office, January 22, 2004
  24. ↑ "Don Fawcett (1917–2009): Unlocking Nature's Closely Guarded Secrets". PLoS Biology 7 (8): e1000183. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000183. PMC 2723910.
  25. ↑ "The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment". ASCB. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  26. ↑ "The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-12-13.

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