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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290440842 Science on the Banks of the Nile: Cell Biology in Sudan Article · September 2014 READS 162 4 authors, including: Marmar A. El Siddig Adil Ali EL Hussein University of Khartoum University of Khartoum 40 PUBLICATIONS 25 CITATIONS 44 PUBLICATIONS 67 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Sakina Yagi University of Khartoum 36 PUBLICATIONS 174 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Marmar A. El Siddig Retrieved on: 17 May 2016 ASCB MARCH 2014 NEWSLETTER VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2 The ASCB in 2018 Page 3 ASCB Task Force to Explore Annual Meeting Reproducibility of Scientific Data Highlights The apparent irreproducibility of some published scientific Page 9 results is an issue of growing concern to industry and to the scientific community. It has begun to receive attention in the news media as well, and if one believes the popular press as MBoC Call for Papers much as 80% of scientific research cannot be reproduced. Is in Quantitative that really true? Does that apply to all research or just some Biology areas? These are just two of the questions a task force of the Page 36 ASCB’s Public Policy Committee (PPC) will attempt to answer as it conducts an in-depth analysis of the issue. If reports of widespread difficulty in reproducing published Inside research results are true, it is a problem that could threaten the scientific enterprise and undermine the authority of the COMPASS Outreach Awards 2 scientific community. In his charge to the task force, ASCB Executive Director’s Column 3 Executive Director Stefano Bertuzzi listed four potential causes for difficulties in reproducing results: DORA Panel Discussion 9 n A hyper-competitive culture that overemphasizes results BSCB Young Cell Biologist 10 n A bias in favor of positive results Young French Cell Biologists 11 Reproducibility, continued on p.17 Mark Winey Local Meeting Highlights 12 Nominate a Colleague for an ASCB Award! Deadline April 1. Upcoming Local Meetings 13 Details on Page 27. WICB Column 14 Browse MBoC Features 16 New ASCB Program Promotes Grant Public Policy Briefing 17 International Affairs 19 Funding Success of Junior Faculty iBiology Update 21 LSE Table of Contents 23 at Minority-Serving Institutions Seen on the Cell 25 MAC Visiting Professorship Program Continues Highlights from MBoC 26 The ASCB Minorities Affairs Committee (MAC) is pleased to accept applications for its new 2014 Call for Nominations 27 Faculty Research and Education Development (FRED) Program, which offers mentoring to help Grants & Opportunities 28 junior faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) achieve greater grant funding success. Dicty Race 28 Mentorship has long been recognized as contributing to the success of young faculty, but appropriate mentors are not always available in schools that are not research intensive. To address Meetings Calendar 29 this issue, the FRED Program, directed by Michael J. Leibowitz of the University of California, Members in the News 29 Davis, has been developed by the MAC with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). New Members 30 This program will match young faculty, primarily from MSIs, with funded mentors in related research fields at research-intensive universities for a year-long structured mentorship program. The Member Gifts 33 program will focus on preparation of a national research grant application by the junior faculty Dear Labby 34 member. Mentors may be nominated by the junior faculty or selected from a pool of volunteers. MAC, continued on p.8 The American Society for Cell Biology EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S Column 8120 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, MD 20814-2762, USA Tel: 301-347-9300 c mpass The ASCB in 2018: Council Develops Fax: 301-347-9310 ASCB Committee for Postdocs and Students [email protected], www.ascb.org Stefano Bertuzzi a Strategic Vision Executive Director announces by Stefano Bertuzzi Officers It’s a funny term, but being an ex officio member Leadership and governance are in fact the two Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz President Shirley Tilghman President-Elect of the ASCB Council and Executive Committee primary mandates of the ASCB Council. The Don W. Cleveland Past President is one of the most exciting December 2013 Council meeting at Thoru Pederson Treasurer aspects of my job as ASCB the Annual Meeting in New Orleans Kathleen J. Green Secretary Executive Director. I get to provides good examples of how Outreach Awards Council work with a phenomenal group Council fulfills those obligations. of scientific leaders who put Cleveland, who was at his last Sue Biggins These awards, of up to $1,000, will help ASCB members engage service to our community very Council meeting as 2013 ASCB A. Malcolm Campbell high on their very long to-do Martin Chalfie with local schools, science fairs, and society. President, summarized the many Benjamin S. Glick lists. Councilors and Executive activities and significant outcomes Daniel Kiehart Committee members put their achieved during his presidency. Ruth Lehmann valuable time where their hearts Two key 2013 objectives had Ian Macara are, promoting and protecting been to revamp ASCB electronic Laura M. Machesky Tom Misteli cell biology, science advocacy, Stefano Bertuzzi communication and to refocus Jodi Nunnari training, and education. on creating value for young Mark Peifer I am particularly lucky this year to be investigators. On both fronts, we had Claire Walczak working closely with our President, Jennifer resounding success. The ASCB Newsletter Lippincott-Schwartz. It is a great asset to have a ASCB launched a new website and a is published 11 times per year President whose lab is within walking distance new social media campaign. The flagship of by The American Society of the ASCB National Office in Bethesda! that effort was the new ASCB Post, a news for Cell Biology. Jennifer and I take full advantage of this unique aggregator and original content source for W. Mark Leader Editor opportunity by often having lunch together at information relevant to our science. Last month, Johnny Chang Production Manager a neighborhood Italian deli. If your travels and the ASCB Post along with its blogs and the Kevin Wilson Public Policy Director your calendar take you through Bethesda, please John Fleischman Senior Science Writer hugely popular COMPASS (Committee for Christina Szalinski Science Writer check ahead and see if you can join us for lunch. Postdocs and Students) page averaged 3,347 Thea Clarke Director, Communications It would be on us, as we would love to loop you hits per week. In today’s online “click wars,” and Education into our conversation. We normally have fun! that’s an amazing figure for a news site about My role as ASCB Executive Director relies cell biology. We’re still hard at work on the Advertising on an incredible and dedicated professional rest of the ASCB website, trying to finalize The deadline for advertising is the first staff, without whom nothing at ASCB would new pages for ASCB committees based on day of the month preceding the cover happen. ASCB staff is behind our website, our direct input from the committees themselves. date. For information contact daily coverage on the ASCB Post, our effective Council strongly encouraged each committee to [email protected]. advocacy in Washington, our professional designate a volunteer responsible for electronic ASCB Newsletter development opportunities, our publishing communications to look after the committee ISSN 1060-8982 operation, and the unbelievably complex page with help from the staff liaison. Volume 37, Number 2 March 2014 logistics of the ASCB Annual Meeting. It’s really The ASCB website and the new electronic the ASCB staff who keep up our reputation as platforms that it hosts are far from complete. © 2014 The American Society for Cell the “overachiever” among scientific societies, as Indeed one of the paradigms of the online Biology. Copyright to the articles is held by the author or, for staff-written articles, Past-President Don Cleveland put it. communications revolution is an old one by the ASCB. The content of the ASCB Credit: Ohi labs at Vanderbilt from biology—change over time through Newsletter is available to the public under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Tending a Complex Machine natural selection, or in this case, through Unported Creative Commons License A complex machine like ASCB requires strong ASCB member–responsive selection. A central (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ leadership and governance to ensure that it challenge remains—attracting more traffic to by-nc-sa/3.0). the website. Historically—and this holds true Postmaster: Send change of address to: The first application deadline isApril 15, 2014 remains effective, grows, and adapts strategically ASCB Newsletter to better serve the scientific community. for most professional societies—the Society’s The American Society for Cell Biology Please visit 8120 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 750 Bethesda, MD 20814-2762, USA http://www.ascb.org/compass-awards/compass-outreach-awards MARCH 2014 ASCB NEWSLETTER 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S Column website was used in a transactional way. government were shut down, ASCB was pointing student. The first Kaluza Prize was awarded to A Vision for ASCB in 2018 Members went to the site to register for the to the benefits of past investments in science, Tina Han of the University of California, San A key component of the Council meeting was Annual Meeting, to pay membership dues, or as witnessed by the just-announced cell biology Francisco, for work she did in the laboratory the presentation of a five-year strategic vision for to get information on other internally focused Nobel Prizes. Meantime, labs were going into of Steve McKnight at the University of ASCB. As Executive Director, this task fell on Leadership and activities. We now need to let people—ASCB mothballs and researchers were being sent home.