2024年10月1日，JSE共同主编马红（Hong Ma）教授正式担任美国植物生物学家学会（ASPB）主席。热烈祝贺马红主编！
American Society of Plant Biologists （ASPB ） 美国植物生物学家学会成立于 1924 年，主要致力于促进植物生物学的进步和发展，服务于植物科学的基础研究。该学会不断发展壮大，至今已成立100周年。ASPB会员遍布全球各大洲，在联合国际植物科学界的过程中起到了举足轻重的作用。
马红目前是宾夕法尼亚州立大学的生物学教授，2024年开始担任JSE共同主编。
以下为原文报道：
ASPB is delighted to welcome its new President, Hong Ma, who was elected in 2023 as President-elect and served in this role starting October 1, 2023. He stepped into his role as ASPB President on October 1, 2024 following the end of now-Past President Leeann Thornton’s term.
“A top
priority is to support and train young plant biologists toward becoming members
of a community with greater diversity, to
amplify the voices of diverse members of
our society, and to promote diversity and representation in society leadership
and society activities,” said Ma on his goals for the society.
Ma is currently a Professor of Biology and the Huck Chair in Plant Reproductive Development and Evolution at the Pennsylvania State University. Ma holds a BA in Biology and Biochemistry from Temple University. He earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and received his postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. Ma has been an ASPB member since 2000. He has served as an Associate Editor for Plant Physiology, a member of the ASPB Publications Committee, and a reviewer for manuscripts. In addition, he has authored a number of papers published in both Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell.
Ma’s interest in plants started before college in the countryside with exposure to major crops like rice and soybean and many other cultivated or wild plants. He was trained in molecular biology through PhD studies in yeast at MIT. Advances in plant molecular biology, especially the emergence of Arabidopsis as a model system for plant biology, motivated Ma to seek postdoctoral training under the guidance of Elliot Meyerowitz, with the identification and analyses of floral homeotic and heterotrimeric G protein genes.
Ma’s lab
at Penn State includes undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral
scientists, and others and studies the molecular genetic basis of plant
reproductive development, particularly anther/pollen development and meiosis.
Through analyses using molecular genetics in combination with transcriptomics,
proteomics and bioinformatics, members of his lab have recently identified a
novel regulator of proper splicing of specific exons in key floral homeotic
genes. In addition, the lab aims to understand phylogenetic relationships and
evolution of angiosperms, particularly for members of families with species
that are important for agriculture and horticulture, including maize, rice,
wheat and other grasses, soybean and other legumes, members of the Asteraceae,
Orchidaceae, and Cucurbitaceae, as well as Arabidopsis and cabbage in
Brassicaceae, tomato, potato, and pepper in Solanaceae, and apple, peach, and
strawberry in Rosaceae. Members of his group have explored the evolutionary
patterns and relevant molecular basis for crucial plant traits such
nitrogen-fixing root nodulation, C4 photosynthesis, floral symmetry, and
tendril formation.
“ASPB just celebrated its 100th anniversary. Having served as the President-elect for almost a year, I treasure more than ever working with ASPB members, including other ASPB leaders, to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, to advance the career development of young members, and to further strengthen ASPB as it enters its second 100 years of supporting its members and the broader plant biology community,” said Ma.
Journal of Systematics and Evolution (JSE)是以分类、系统发育和进化为核心内容，以描述和理解生物多样性为服务目标的多学科综合性国际学术期刊，主要发表系统与进化生物学领域的研究成果。JSE是中国科学院期刊分区表生物学大类1区期刊，中国科技期刊国际影响力提升计划项目（2013–2018）和中国科技期刊卓越行动计划项目（2019–2023）支持期刊。最新JCR影响因子3.4，排名60/265，位于Q1区。获第三届、第四届中国科协优秀科技论文奖。2023年连续第十二年荣获“中国最具国际影响力学术期刊”奖。
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