Sir John Ernest Walker is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge,and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge.
Peter Walter is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He is currently the Director of the Bay Area Institute of Science at Altos Labs and an emeritus professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF). He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator until 2022.
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in 1960.
Elaine V. Fuchs is an American cell biologist known for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases,who helped lead the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs pioneered reverse genetics approaches,which assess protein function first and then assess its role in development and disease. In particular,Fuchs researches skin stem cells and their production of hair and skin. She is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University.
Barbara J. Meyer is a biologist and genetist,noted for her pioneering research on lambda phage,a virus that infects bacteria;discovery of the master control gene involved in sex determination;and studies of gene regulation,particularly dosage compensation. Meyer's work has revealed mechanisms of sex determination and dosage compensation—that balance X-chromosome gene expression between the sexes in Caenorhabditis elegans that continue to serve as the foundation of diverse areas of study on chromosome structure and function today.
Anthony Arie Hyman is a British scientist and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.
Lucy Shapiro is an American developmental biologist. She is a professor of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and the director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine.
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles with the ability to fuse and divide (fission),forming constantly changing tubular networks in most eukaryotic cells. These mitochondrial dynamics,first observed over a hundred years ago are important for the health of the cell,and defects in dynamics lead to genetic disorders. Through fusion,mitochondria can overcome the dangerous consequences of genetic malfunction. The process of mitochondrial fusion involves a variety of proteins that assist the cell throughout the series of events that form this process.
Lynne Elizabeth Maquat is an American biochemist and molecular biologist whose research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of human disease. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. She currently holds the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics,pediatrics and of oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Professor Maquat is also Founding Director of the Center for RNA Biology and Founding Chair of Graduate Women in Science at the University of Rochester.
Wolf Reik FRS is a German-British molecular biologist and an honorary group leader at the Babraham Institute,honorary professor of Epigenetics at the University of Cambridge and associate faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He was announced as the director of Altos Labs Cambridge Institute when the company launched on 19 January 2022.
Zena Werb was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California,San Francisco. She was also the co-leader of the Cancer,Immunity,and Microenvironment Program at the Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Sabre-Sandler Asthma Basic Research Center at UCSF. Her research focused on features of the microenvironment surrounding cells,with particular interest in the extracellular matrix and the role of its protease enzymes in cell signaling.
Don W. Cleveland is an American cancer biologist and neurobiologist.
Tim Stearns is an American biologist and university administrator,and is the Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies,Vice President of Education,and Head of Laboratory at The Rockefeller University. Stearns was formerly the Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University,with appointments in the Department of Genetics and the Cancer Center in the Stanford Medical School. Stearns served as chair of the Department of Biology at Stanford as well as Acting Dean of Research and Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research. Stearns is an HHMI Professor,and is a member of JASON,a scientific advisory group. He has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Cell Biology,Genetics and Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Karen Oegema is a molecular cell biologist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California,San Diego. She is best known for her research with Caenorhabditis elegans,which her lab uses as a model system in their mission to dissect the molecular mechanics of cytokinesis. She was given the Women in Cell Biology Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research in 2017,as well as the Women in Cell Biology Junior Award for Excellence in Research in 2006.
JoAnn Trejo is an American pharmacologist,cell biologist,a professor,and also an assistant vice chancellor in the department of health sciences faculty affairs in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine at University of California,San Diego. She is also the assistant vice chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Trejo studies cell signalling by protease-activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). She is also actively involved in mentoring,education and outreach activities to increase the diversity of science.
Jean Vance is a British-Canadian biochemist. She is known for her pioneering work on subcellular organelles and for her discovery of a connection between the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondrial membrane. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta,Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Rebecca W. Heald is an American professor of cell and developmental biology. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Molecular &Cell Biology at the University of California,Berkeley. In May 2019,she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. She has published over 120 research articles in peer reviewed journals.
Denise Johnson Montell is an American biologist who is the Duggan Professor of Molecular,Cellular,and Developmental Biology at the University of California,Santa Barbara. Her research considers the oogenesis process in Drosophila and border cell migration. She has served as president of the Genetics Society of America and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Peter N. Devreotes is an American scientist and the Isaac Morris &Lucille Elizabeth Hay Professor and former director of the department of cell biology,with joint appointments in the Center for Cell Dynamics and department of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also serves on the scientific advisory board of the Allen Institute for Cell Science. He is best known for his contribution in the field of eukaryotic chemotaxis,signal transduction,and phosphoinositides biology.
Gia Voeltz is an American cell biologist. She is a professor of Molecular,Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She is known for her research identifying the factors and unraveling the mechanisms that determine the structure and dynamics of the largest organelle in the cell:the endoplasmic reticulum. Her lab has produced paradigm shifting studies on organelle membrane contact sites that have revealed that most cytoplasmic organelles are not isolated entities but are instead physically tethered to an interconnected ER membrane network.
