50 Years of Women in Cell Biology: Where have we been? Where are we going?

Molecular Biology of the CellVol. 25, No. 25 ASCB Annual Meeting AbstractsFree Access2014 ASCB/IFCB Meeting abstractsThe American Society for Cell BiologyThe American Society for Cell BiologySearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e14-10-1437AboutSectionsView articleSupplemental MaterialView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleThe abstracts of the 2014 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting, held jointly with the International Federation of Cell Biology (IFCB), are attached to this article as a searchable PDF file. To view the files, click on the “Abstracts” link in the content box in the middle column of the HTML version of this article.The ASCB and the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) have decided to present the Annual Meeting abstracts in this manner so that they will be clearly associated with the ASCB's basic research journal and so that they can be properly archived. The abstracts of the 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 ASCB Annual Meetings were published shortly after the meetings (American Society for Cell Biology, 2010, 2011a, 2012, 2013). The abstracts of the 2005–2009 ASCB Annual Meetings were published retroactively (American Society for Cell Biology, 2011b).Historically, abstracts of each ASCB Annual Meeting were published in a printed supplement to MBoC. (PDF files of the supplements for 1992–1996 are available online; see Table 1.) That practice was discontinued in 2005, and abstracts were instead made available on the ASCB's website. Thus the historical link between the abstracts and the journal became tenuous, although authors were encouraged to cite ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts as having appeared in a supplement to MBoC. The association between the Annual Meeting abstracts and MBoC has been restored by making the abstracts available in the online journal.TABLE 1: URLs for abstract supplements tables of contents.YearURL1992https://www.molbiolcell.org/toc/mboc/3/suppl1993https://www.molbiolcell.org/toc/mboc/4/suppl1994https://www.molbiolcell.org/toc/mboc/5/suppl1995https://www.molbiolcell.org/toc/mboc/6/suppl1996https://www.molbiolcell.org/toc/mboc/7/supplArchiving of meeting abstracts is important because they are often cited in the scientific literature. They need to be permanently available. Although the ASCB is committed to maintaining abstracts from its Annual Meetings since 2003 on its website, it is prudent to preserve such documents in multiple locations. The Annual Meeting abstracts will now be available on the MBoC website at HighWire Press and in downstream repositories such as PubMed Central as well as on the ASCB website.All abstracts submitted for ASCB Annual Meetings are screened by the abstract programming committee to ensure that they meet minimum submission standards. However, they are not peer-reviewed.Abstracts are citable. Citation styles vary by journal, but one way in which 2014 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts may be cited is as follows:Smith AB, Jones CD (2014). Abstract title. Mol Biol Cell 25, xx (abstract #).FOOTNOTESDOI:10.1091/mbc.E14-10-1437REFERENCES American Society for Cell Biology (2010). 2010 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 21, 4299. Link, Google Scholar American Society for Cell Biology (2011a). 2011 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 22, 4705. Link, Google Scholar American Society for Cell Biology (2011b). 2005–2009 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 22, 3555. Link, Google Scholar American Society for Cell Biology (2012). 2012 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 23, 4663. Link, Google Scholar American Society for Cell Biology (2013). 2013 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 24, 3775. Link, Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byLabel-Free Detection of Post-translational Modifications with a Nanopore11 October 2019 | Nano Letters, Vol. 19, No. 112018 ASCB Annual Meeting abstractsThe American Society for Cell Biology13 December 2018 | Molecular Biology of the Cell, Vol. 29, No. 26Protein dynamic communities from elastic network models align closely to the communities defined by molecular dynamics20 June 2018 | PLOS ONE, Vol. 13, No. 6Specific Systems for Evaluation19 July 20182017 ASCB Annual Meeting AbstractsThe American Society for Cell BiologyDavid G. 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Peter Satir (1936–2022), cell biology pioneer and mentor

Mentoring in the time of Coronavirus

Molecular Biology of the CellVol. 30, No. 26 ASCB Annual Meeting AbstractsFree Access2019 ASCB Annual Meeting abstractsThe American Society for Cell BiologyThe American Society for Cell BiologyThe American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:12 Dec 2019https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E19-11-0617AboutSectionsView articleSupplemental MaterialView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleA searchable PDF of the abstracts of the 2019 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) annual meeting (the ASCB|EMBO Meeting) is attached to this article as supplemental data.The ASCB and the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) have decided to present the annual meeting abstracts in this manner so that they will be clearly associated with the ASCB’s basic research journal and so that they can be properly archived. Each year since 2010, the abstracts have been published in the December 15 issue of the journal. The abstracts of the 2005–2009 ASCB annual meetings were published retroactively (American Society for Cell Biology, 2011).Archiving of meeting abstracts is important because they are often cited in the scientific literature. They need to be permanently available. Although the ASCB is committed to maintaining abstracts from its annual meetings since 2004 on its website, it is prudent to preserve such documents in multiple locations.All abstracts submitted for ASCB annual meetings are screened by the abstract programming committee to ensure that they meet minimum submission standards. However, they are not peer-reviewed.Abstracts are citable. Citation styles vary by publication, but as an example one way in which a 2019 ASCB|EMBO Meeting abstract may be cited is as follows:Smith AB, Jones CD (2019). Abstract title. Mol Biol Cell 30, xxxx (abstract #).FOOTNOTESDOI:10.1091/mbc.E19-11-0617REFERENCEAmerican Society for Cell Biology (2011). 2005–2009 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 22, 3555. Link, Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 30, No. 26 December 15, 20193075-3160 Supplemental MaterialsMetrics Downloads & Citations Downloads: 974 History Information© 2019 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

The Women in Cell Biology (WICB) committee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) was started in the 1970s in response to the documented underrepresentation of women in academia in general and cell biology in particular. By coincidence or causal relationship, I am happy to say that since WICB became a standing ASCB committee, women have been well represented in ASCB's leadership and as symposium speakers at the annual meeting. However, the need to provide opportunities and information useful to women in developing their careers in cell biology is still vital, given the continuing bias women face in the larger scientific arena. With its emphasis on mentoring, many of WICB's activities benefit the development of both men and women cell biologists. The WICB “Career Column” in the monthly ASCB Newsletter is a source of accessible wisdom. At the annual ASCB meeting, WICB organizes the career discussion and mentoring roundtables, childcare awards, Mentoring Theater, career-related panel and workshop, and career recognition awards. Finally, the WICB Speaker Referral Service provides a list of outstanding women whom organizers of scientific meetings, scientific review panels, and university symposia/lecture series can reach out to when facing the proverbial dilemma, “I just don't know any women who are experts.”

This editorial discusses next steps toward sustaining the journal.

Molecular Biology of the CellVol. 32, No. 22 ASCB Annual Meeting AbstractsFree Access2021 ASCB Annual Meeting abstractsThe American Society for Cell BiologyThe American Society for Cell Biology*Address correspondence to: (E-mail Address: [email protected]).Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:29 Nov 2021https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E21-11-0545AboutSectionsView articleSupplemental MaterialView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleA searchable PDF of the abstracts of Cell Bio Virtual 2021, the online joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), is attached to this article as supplemental data.The ASCB and the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) have decided to present the Annual Meeting abstracts in this manner so that they will be clearly associated with the ASCB’s basic research journal and so that they can be properly archived. Each year since 2010, the abstracts have been published in the December 15 issue of the journal. The abstracts of the 2005–2009 ASCB annual meetings were published retroactively (American Society for Cell Biology, 2011).Archiving of meeting abstracts is important because they are often cited in the scientific literature. They need to be permanently available. Although the ASCB is committed to maintaining abstracts from its annual meetings since 2004 on its website, it is prudent to preserve such documents in multiple locations.All abstracts submitted for ASCB annual meetings are screened by the abstract programming committee to ensure that they meet minimum submission standards. However, theyarenot peer-reviewed.Abstracts are citable. Citation styles vary by publication, but as an example one way in which a 2021 ASCB|EMBO Meeting abstract may be cited is as follows:Smith AB, Jones CD (2021). Abstract title. Mol Biol Cell 32, xxxx (abstract #).FOOTNOTESDOI: 10.1091/mbc.E21-11-0545REFERENCEAmerican Society for Cell Biology (2011). 2005–2009 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 22, 3555. Link, Google ScholarAmerican Society for Cell Biology (2011). 2005–2009 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 22, 3555. Link, Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 32, No. 22 December 01, 2021 Supplemental MaterialsMetrics Downloads & Citations Downloads: 1584 History Information© 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0).PDF download

ASCB awards and appointments

Physics in a Beautiful Context

Molecular Biology of the CellVol. 22, No. 19 ASCB Annual Meeting AbstractsFree Access2005–2009 ASCB Annual Meeting abstractsThe American Society for Cell BiologyThe American Society for Cell BiologySearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e11-08-0667AboutSectionsView articleSupplemental MaterialView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleThe abstracts of the 2005–2009 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meetings are attached to this article as a searchable PDF file. To view the file, click on the “Abstracts” link in the content box of the HTML version of this article.The ASCB and the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) have decided to present the Annual Meeting abstracts retroactively in this manner to ensure the abstracts will be clearly associated with the ASCB's basic research journal and can be properly archived. The abstracts of the 2010 ASCB Annual Meeting were published previously (American Society for Cell Biology, 2010).Historically, abstracts of each ASCB Annual Meeting were published as a printed supplement to MBoC. That practice was discontinued in 2005, and abstracts were instead made available on the ASCB's website (www.ascb.org). Thus, the historical link between the abstracts and the journal became tenuous, although authors were encouraged to cite ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts as having appeared in a supplement to MBoC. The association between the Annual Meeting abstracts and MBoC will be restored by making the abstracts available in the online journal.Archiving of meeting abstracts is important, because the abstracts are part of the scientific literature and need to be permanently available. Although the ASCB is committed to maintaining abstracts from its Annual Meetings since 2003 on its website, it is prudent to preserve such documents in multiple locations. The 2005–2010 Annual Meeting abstracts will now be available on the MBoC website at HighWire Press and in downstream repositories, such as PubMed Central, as well as on the ASCB website.In the future, MBoC will publish abstracts from each ASCB Annual Meeting shortly after the meeting is held.All abstracts submitted for ASCB Annual Meetings are screened by the abstract programming committee to ensure that they meet minimum submission standards. However, they are not peer-reviewed.REFERENCE American Society for Cell Biology (2010). 2010 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts. Mol Biol Cell 21, 4299. 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Cell biology, represented by its society, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), remains vibrant precisely because it welcomes the young. The future belongs to the students and fellows. Indeed, as ASCB president in the 1990s, together with one of my fellows at the time, Sophie Lelievre, we organized one of the first “postdoctoral societies” in the United States at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and then took the idea to the ASCB to form what now has become a standing and productive committee. The ASCB and its members know that fundamental cell biology remains relevant today, because the cell in context is both the “dancer and the dance.”

A.J. Ladman AAA/Wiley Exemplary Service Award.

Dr. Elizabeth Dexter Hay, born in St. Augustine, Florida, on April 2, 1927, died of cancer on August 20, 2007. Betty left behind a rich legacy, not only as a superb cell and developmental biologist, but also as an educator and beloved mentor. She was a remarkable woman. Betty attended Smith College in 1944, and met biology professor Meryl Rose, who became her scientific mentor. In Rose's laboratory, Betty studied limb regeneration, and became so immersed in the work, that she completed substantial research while handling her college course load. Also, each summer she worked in Rose's lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1948 and thought of going to graduate school. Rose talked her into applying to medical school instead, because he understood that her career choices might be restricted to teaching in a women's college biology department if she had only a Ph.D. degree. Therefore, Betty applied to Johns Hopkins University Medical School and was accepted. (She considered applying to Harvard Medical School, but decided against it when she found they had no women's rest rooms.) While in her first year of medical school, her interest in regeneration, anatomy, and histology caught the eye of the department chair, Dr. Allan Grafflin, who found Betty a spot in a lab to pursue her regeneration studies. She also continued to go to Woods Hole each summer to do further work with Rose. In 1952, she was awarded her MD degree, being only one of four women in the class. She stayed on at Johns Hopkins for a year of internship, then, in 1953, was appointed as an instructor of Anatomy. The next year, she attended a meeting where Keith Porter showed electron micrographs of cytoplasmic structures. This caught her attention. Betty's words were, “I came back and, wow, from then on it was electron microscopy for me” (taken from Int J Dev Biol 2004;48:687-694, article entitled “The extracellular matrix in development and regeneration: an interview with Elizabeth D. Hay” by Robert L Trelstad). She located the only electron microscope at Johns Hopkins in the School of Public Health, and began using it. By 1956, Betty was appointed Assistant Professor of Anatomy, and was using the electron microscope to study embryological processes, but was unhappy with the quality of her micrographs. She began traveling to Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) to see Keith Porter and George Palade for advice. Don Fawcett, who had been working with Porter and Palade, had just been appointed chairman of anatomy at Cornell University Medical College across the street from Rockefeller. Fawcett offered Betty an Assistant professorship which she accepted in 1957. By a fortunate set of circumstances, Don Fischman entered Cornell as a medical student that year. He had worked on amphibian limb regeneration with Charles Thornton as an undergraduate at Kenyon College, thus he immediately joined Betty's laboratory. They had a very productive collaboration tracing the origin of the cells in the regeneration blastema and they proved that the osteoclast formed by fusion of circulating monocytes. In 1960, Don Fawcett was appointed Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School and recruited Betty for a faculty position. She always joined him there. She always credited Fawcett with inspiring and mentoring her as a scientist. At Harvard, she transitioned from the salamander to the embryonic chick cornea model system. In 1969, she was awarded the Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professorship of Embryology, and in 1975, when Fawcett stepped down as Chair of the department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Betty assumed that position. She served in this capacity for 18 years. Her greatest scientific contribution—illuminating the role of extracellular matrix in regulating cell behavior—led to the birth of a new field of cell and developmental biology and numerous honors and awards. Among these were the Centennial Award and the Henry Gray Award from the American Association of Anatomists, the E.B. Wilson Medal from the American Society for Cell Biology, and the FASEB Excellence in Science Award. In 1984, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to her scientific accomplishments, she contributed service and leadership to several societies associated with her discipline, including presidencies of the American Association of Anatomists (1981-1982), the American Society for Cell Biology (1976-1977), and the Society for Developmental Biology (1973-1974). Later in her career, Betty became fascinated by epithelial–mesenchymal transitions during development, and published several papers in this area. She was an idea “generator.” Stephen Sugrue once noted that Betty had a small, old, beat up book that she kept in her desk, where she put notes and bits of papers on her ideas. As people came to her lab for training, she would take out this notebook and assign them one of the many ideas. Betty retired in 2005 from the Cell Biology department at Harvard Medical School, and the location of the idea notebook is unknown. Many of her progeny would delight in reviewing the ideas it contained. In the introduction to the book she edited, “Cell Biology of the Extracellular Matrix (first edition 1981, second edition 1991), Betty states that, “Cytoskeleton, cell shape, cell migration, control of cell growth and differentiation, these are all subjects that, to be fully understood today, require a consideration of the extracellular matrix (ECM): its composition, role in development and relationship to the cell surface.” This powerful idea, coupled with Betty's dedication and passion for science, her love of teaching and mentoring, are part of her profound legacy (Fig. 1). She may no longer be with us in a physical sense, but her scientific descendants, working on many areas related to cell–matrix interactions, are well into the third generation of researchers. To Betty we say, we are sad you are gone, but we are truly better for having known you. Images of Elizabeth (Betty) Hay from her medical student days using the TEM at John's Hopkins University Medical School (upper left, from the Harvard Archives); as an Assistant Professor (upper center, photo from Jean Paul Revel); in her office as the Chair and Professor of the Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Harvard (lower left, photo from Jean Paul Revel); the night she accepted the E.B. Wilson Medal from the American Society for Cell Biology in 1988 (lower center and right color photos by Mark Nathanson).

As the new editor-in-chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), I hope to advance the shared mission of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and its basic research journal.Toward that end, MBoC will avoid some of the pernicious trends in scientific publishing that lead journals to seek status over substance.It will engage readers with new types of features and an enhanced online presence, and an expanded Editorial Board will continue to evaluate submissions according to clearly stated criteria designed to serve science.MBoC's mission and that of the ASCB, which owns and manages the Journal, are entirely congruent.The ASCB was founded "to bring the varied facets of cell biology together.The Society's purpose is to promote and develop the field of cell biology" (ASCB, 2009).MBoC's mission "to enhance scientific communication among cell biologists" and "to serve all cell biologist authors" was articulated by David Botstein (Botstein, 1998), the first editor-in-chief after the journal Cell Regulation was rechristened MBoC.Sandy Schmid, MBoC's third editor-in-chief, aptly and succinctly pointed out: "It's our journal" (Schmid

The year 2003 marks the 75th birthday of Joseph G. Gall, a founder of the field of cell biology who has contributed to the field for the past 50 or so years. Currently a staff member at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Joe is a scientist's scientist - a researcher who embodies the positive