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International Institute for Collaborative Cell Biology and Biochemistry—History and Memoirs from an International Network for Biological Sciences

L. C. Cameron

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Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.13-06-0108

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I was invited to write this essay on the occasion of my selection as the recipient of the 2012 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). Receiving this award is an enormous honor. When I read the email announcement for the first time, it was more than a surprise to me, it was unbelievable. I joined ASCB in 1996, when I presented a poster and received a travel award. Since then, I have attended almost every ASCB meeting. I will try to use this essay to share with readers one of the best experiences in my life. Because this is an essay, I take the liberty of mixing some of my thoughts with data in a way that it not usual in scientific writing. I hope that this sacrifice of the format will achieve the goal of conveying what I have learned over the past 20 yr, during which time a group of colleagues and friends created a nexus of knowledge and wisdom. We have worked together to build a network capable of sharing and inspiring science all over the world.

Vol. 12, No. 3

September 01, 2013

315-575

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SOME ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (BUT NEVER ENOUGH)

I could not mention most of the important things nor name colleagues and friends in this paper. Indeed, the authorship of this paper should have 200–300 names at least. I will do my best to acknowledge them here. I would like to recognize the efforts of my friends to nominate me for the Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education. Also, I am indebted to my colleagues at ASCB who showed that the ASCB is not an American society but an international one, conferring upon me as a non-U.S. citizen this important award. I would love to name all my IICCBB colleagues. All of you have honored me. I hope that I can use this vote of confidence in me, and the responsibility of carrying, somehow, the name of Bruce Alberts, to catalyze a scientific transformation of the world.

I am in debt to Hannah Sevian and Erin Dolan for their encouragement and help in writing this essay. I also emphasize that I would never be able to implement these courses without my family in Brazil and my U.S. families, the Blooms and the Mercers (in alphabetical order to avoid jealousy!).

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