The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) has named Matthew D. Welch as the new editor-in-chief of its online peer-reviewed scientific research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), effective January 1, 2020. Welch is a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. The current editor-in-chief, David G. Drubin, will step down when his second term is over at the end of 2019.
Welch brings two decades of experience serving as a member of the editorial boards of many respected scientific journals, including being on the Board of Reviewing Editors for MBoC since 2006.
Welch has been a longtime member of ASCB, joining the Society in 1994 when he was a postdoctoral fellow. He was chosen to be an ASCB Fellow in 2018. In addition, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2017 and received the R.R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology from the American Association of Anatomists. In 2018, he became Division Head of Cell and Development Biology at UC Berkeley, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1998. Welch has published nearly 80 scientific papers and given dozens of invited talks worldwide related to his work on the intricacies of the actin cytoskeleton.
Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) is an online journal published twice monthly and owned by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). It publishes articles and essays that report the results of original research and present conceptual advances of broad interest and significance within all areas of cell biology, genetics, and developmental biology. MBoC offers fast, fair, and constructive review of manuscripts. Articles are freely accessible two months after publication. Access earlier than two months is available through subscription or membership in the ASCB.
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