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doi:10.1083/jcb.200812145
The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 184, No. 1, 7-9
The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525 $30.00
© Mellman
By the scientists, for the scientists
Ira Mellman
Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080
Correspondence to Ira Mellman: mellman.ira{at}gene.com
My association with the JCB began very early in my scientific career. In fact, it predated my understanding that there would even be a scientific career. In the mid-1970s while still an undergraduate, the JCB published my very first paper, a contribution noted perhaps less so for its reporting the characterization of the first known protein in plant cell walls than for a footnote that called attention to the evolutionary conservation of a relationship between "sex and slime" throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
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