Abstract
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) will present its highest scientific award, the E.B. Wilson Medal, to Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California in San Francisco at its annual meeting in Washington this December. Blackburn, who served as ASCB President during 1998, is honored for her discovery of the enzyme telomerase, which is activated during tumorigenesis. Also attending the meeting will be Claire Warner, winner of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) ‘Young Cell Biologist of the Year’ award. The BSCB prize enables Warner to travel to the conference and present her work on ‘Myosin VI: a molecular motor at the Golgi complex’, undertaken during her PhD as part of a collaboration between John Kendrick-Jones and Paul Luzio in Cambridge, UK. Daphne Preuss from the University of Chicago Dept of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology will receive the Promega Award for Early Career Life Sciences for her work on chromosome structure and pollen function and her contribution to the Arabidopsis genome project. The ASCB membership has recently elected Suzanne Pfeffer of Stanford University as President for 2003, taking over from Gary Borisy, who will serve in 2002. The Society also announced that Keith Yamamoto will take over from David Botstein as Editor-in-Chief of its journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell, at the start of 2002. D.S.
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