生物通报道：本期（2月29日）《Science》杂志的“人物特写”的相关内容是科学杂志新迎来的主编：Bruce Alberts，这位1993年就成为美国国家科学院(National Academies of Science)主席的生物化学与生物物理学教授将于今年3月接掌《科学》杂志的主编一职。

（Bruce Alberts）

去年7月，1985至1995年的《科学》杂志主编Daniel E. Koshland因中风逝世，享年87岁。Daniel K. Koshland的主要成就在于：其研究极大地改变了我们对酶和蛋白质化学的了解。 Koshland于1965年成为美国加州大学伯克利分校的教授。1967年，Koshland提出了著名的“诱导契合学说”（induced-fit theory），认为蛋白质的结构不是固定不变的僵硬结构，而是具有一定的柔性，可以在与其他分子的作用过程中改变形状。

Koshland在担任《科学》杂志主编期间也留下了光辉的一笔。他审查并革新了同行评议制度，建立了评审委员会；在欧洲乃至全世界范围内设立新的办事处，促进了《科学》杂志的全球化；此外，Koshland还提升了杂志中物理学领域高质量论文的数量。《科学》执行编辑Monica Bradford对此表示，“他在识别高质量论文上具有无与伦比的才能。”

而新到任的这位加州大学旧金山分校的生物化学与生物物理学教授Bruce Alberts，1965年从哈佛大学获得博士学位，后在普林斯顿大学任职10年，1976年来到加州大学旧金山分校。Alberts是著名的生物化学和生物物理学教授，并于1993—2005年连任两届美国国家科学院院长。迄今为止，Alberts共发表研究论文150余篇，而且是美国一本最主要的教科书——《细胞的分子生物学》(Molecular Biology of the Cell)的原始作者，他最突出的成就是有关染色体复制的蛋白复合体研究。

Bruce Alberts离开从事的DNA生物化学研究工作后，将精力集中在了教育和公共服务上，并于1993年成为美国国家科学院(National Academies of Science)的主席。他还同时担任国际科学院(InterAcademy)的共同主席及美国细胞生物学学会(American Society of Cell Biology)的主席。

Alberts表示，“我认为《科学》杂志是维持科学标准的重要场所，同时它也是对全世界科学成果的理解和评价的传播者。我们今天面临着巨大的挑战，要实现这些重要的目标需要持久的努力。”

《Science》本期这篇文章作者Marc Kirschner在文章表示，由Alberts担任《科学》的主编，“我们可以肯定担任这一位置的是最佳的人选”。
（生物通：万纹）

原文检索：
PROFILE: Bruce Alberts, Science's New Editor
Marc Kirschner
Science 29 February 2008: 1199.

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Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., is a respected biochemist recognized for his work both in biochemistry and molecular biology. He is noted particularly for his extensive study of the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to be replicated, as required for a living cell to divide.
He has spent his career making significant contributions to the field of life sciences, serving in different capacities on a number of prestigious advisory and editorial boards, including as chair of the Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council. Until his election as President of the Academy, he was president-elect of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Born in 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, Alberts graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a degree in biochemical sciences. He earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 1965. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1966 and after ten years was appointed professor and vice chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 1980, he was awarded the honor of an American Cancer Society Lifetime Research Professorship. In 1985, he was named chair of the UCSF Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Alberts has long been committed to the improvement of science education, dedicating much of his time to educational projects such as City Science, a program seeking to improve science teaching in San Francisco elementary schools. He has served on the advisory board of the National Science Resources Center? a joint project of the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution working with teachers, scientists, and school systems to improve teaching of science? as well as on the National Academy of Sciences' National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment.

He is one of the original authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, considered the leading textbook of its kind and used widely in U.S. colleges and universities. His most recent text, Essential Cell Biology (1998), is intended to approach this subject matter for a wider audience.

For the period 2000 to 2005, Dr. Alberts is the Co-chair of the InterAcademy Council, a new advisory institution in Amsterdam governed by the presidents of 15 science academies from around the world.