2020 was a challenging year for everyone. Labs and offices were closed, Zoom meetings abounded, and health and medical services were stretched to their limits. While we all struggled to learn new ways of working, Journal of Cell Science put in place measures to help our authors with their revisions as much as we could – we extended revision deadlines, reminded reviewers to limit requests for experimental revisions, and reinforced our scoop protection policy – you can read more about those measures here. We thank all of our authors for considering and trusting Journal of Cell Science as the platform for their valuable work in 2020. To give them guidance when handling these manuscripts, our Editors of course turn to peer reviewers, who continued to give generously of their time and expertise to help us maintain the high standards of the journal. We appreciate how much time and effort goes in to writing a good peer review that is helpful to both the editors in making decisions and the authors in revising their manuscripts – so we extend our sincere thanks for the insightful and scholarly guidance offered by our reviewers and, of course, their co-reviewers. We are pleased to publicly acknowledge all the reviewers and co-reviewers who completed reviews of Journal of Cell Science manuscripts in 2020 – the full list of their names can be found in the (supplementary information.
2020 JCS Prize winner: Tadayoshi Murakawa
Congratulations to Tadayoshi Murakawa, who won the 2020 JCS Prize for his paper entitled ‘An autophagy-dependent tubular lysosomal network synchronizes degradative activity required for muscle remodeling’. Find out more about Tadayoshi and read his winning paper.
'FocalPlane features...' webinar series
We’re excited to announce the new 'FocalPlane features…' webinar series. Covering all aspects of microscopy, join us on the first Tuesday of every month to hear about the latest research and take part in a virtual networking session with the speaker afterwards.
Save your spot at our next sessions:
6 July
Speaker: Eva Nogales
3 August
Speaker: Michael Dustin
Meet the JCS Editors
Cell scientist to watch - Liang Ge
Now in his fourth year of running his own lab, Liang Ge tells us about his journey to becoming a PI at Tsinghua University, discusses autophagy and UPS, and shares the best piece of science-related advice he’s received.
Read & Publish agreement with EIFL
We are pleased to announce that researchers in 30 developing and transition economy countries can benefit from immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing in Journal of Cell Science following a new agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL).
We now have over 200 institutions in more than 20 countries and six library consortia participating in our read & Publish initiative. Find out more and view the full list of participating institutions.
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