Randy Schekman

Randy Schekman
Schekman in 2015
Born
Randy Wayne Schekman

(1948-12-30) December 30, 1948 (age 75)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Known forEditor-in-chief of PNAS[4] and eLife[5]
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
UCLA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University
ThesisResolution and reconstruction of a multienzyme DNA replication reaction (1975)
Doctoral advisorArthur Kornberg
Doctoral studentsDavid Julius[3]
David Baker
Websitemcb.berkeley.edu/labs/schekman
royalsociety.org/people/randy-schekman

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley,[6] former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.[4][7][8][9] In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new high-profile open-access journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust launching in 2012.[10] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.[11] Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.[12][13]

  1. ^ "Professor Randy Schekman ForMemRS". Royalsociety.org. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  2. ^ Wickner, W. T. (2013). "Profile of Thomas Sudhof, James Rothman, and Randy Schekman, 2013 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (46): 18349–50. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11018349W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1319309110. PMC 3832004. PMID 24158482.
  3. ^ "Julius Lab - David Julius". Physio.ucsf.edu. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  4. ^ a b Zagorski, N. (2008). "Profile of Randy Schekman: Reflections on his first year as PNAS Editor-in-Chief". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (8): 2763–2765. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.2763Z. doi:10.1073/pnas.0610781105. PMC 2268533. PMID 18287009.
  5. ^ Schekman, R.; Patterson, M. (2013). "Reforming research assessment". eLife. 2: e00855. doi:10.7554/eLife.00855. PMC 3656620. PMID 23700504.
  6. ^ "Randy Schekman: Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology". Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  7. ^ Bucci, M. (2006). "Randy Schekman". Nature Chemical Biology. 2 (11): 568. doi:10.1038/nchembio1106-568. PMID 17051227. S2CID 40321085.
  8. ^ Zagorski, N. (2006). "QnAs with Randy Schekman". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (50): 18881. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10318881Z. doi:10.1073/pnas.0609700103. PMC 1748144. PMID 17148596.
  9. ^ Schekman, Randy (1999). "Preface by Randy Schekman". Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 15. doi:10.1146/annurev.cb.15.010199.100001.
  10. ^ "New journal editor named as Randy Schekman | Wellcome Trust". Archived from the original on October 11, 2013. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  11. ^ Randy Schekman publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
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  13. ^ Randy Schekman's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)