Newswise — Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie was elected by members of the American Society for Cell Biology to serve as ASCB President in 2022. He will serve as President-Elect on the Executive Committee in 2021.
Chalfie is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences of Columbia University. In 2008, Chalfie shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien for discovery and development of green fluorescent protein as a biomarker.
ASCB’s 2020 president is Eva Nogales of the University of California, Berkeley, and 2020 president-elect is Ruth Lehmann of the New York University School of Medicine.
Also elected (unopposed) as ASCB Treasurer for a 3-year term is A. Malcolm Campbell, Davidson College. Others elected to Council include Amy S. Gladfelter, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Andrew G. Campbell, Brown University; Erin D. Goley, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Casper C. Hoogenraad, Genentech, who is representing members in industry. Each new member of Council will serve a 3-year term beginning January 1, 2021.
ASCB on the ballot were several recommended bylaws changes intended to make the Society more open, transparent, and inclusive and to increase opportunities for member involvement. These passed by a majority of voting members, including regular, postdoc, graduate student, educator, and emeritus members. The new bylaws will be fully in effect starting in 2021; in the meantime, there will be a transition period for any changes that are required to comply with the new bylaws.
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