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Susan King, Ph.D., Executive Director, Rockefeller University Press, Introducing Rockefeller University Press

Tim Spencer, Ph.D., Executive Editor, JCB, Rockefeller University Press, Introducing Journal of Cell Biology

Tim Fessenden, Ph.D., Executive Editor, LSA, Rockefeller University Press, Introducing Life Science Alliance

Natalie Cain, Ph.D., Executive Editor, JEM, Rockefeller University Press, Introducing Journal of Experimental Medicine

Speaker bio(s)

Susan joined RUP as Executive Director in June 2015 from the American Chemical Society, where she served as Senior Vice President, Journals Publishing Group for 8 years, after over 15 years at John Wiley & Sons in various editorial, marketing, and management roles. Susan received her PhD in immunology from the University of Glasgow. Susan currently serves on the American Physical Society Committee on Scientific Publications, and has served as the Vice-Chair of the Scientific Publishing Committee of the American Heart Association.

Tim Spencer received his PhD from the City University of New York, where he studied the signaling mechanisms that underlie the promotion of axonal growth and regeneration following injury in the laboratory of Marie Filbin. He then moved to the laboratory of Chris Henderson at Columbia University, where he examined molecular markers of postnatal motor neuron maturation and elements of motor-specific disease. Tim served as a Senior Scientific Editor at Nature Neuroscience since 2011 before moving to RUP to become the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Cell Biology in 2016. He became Executive Editor in 2019.

Tim Fessenden received his PhD from the University of Chicago under the mentorship of Margaret Gardel, for his work on the cytoskeletal regulation of multicellular invasion. He then moved to MIT where he completed postdoctoral studies on tumor immunology and mechanisms of tumor sensing by dendritic cells. Tim joined the Journal of Cell Biology as a Scientific Editor in 2021, and was appointed Executive Editor of LSA in March 2025.

Natalie received her Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on membrane protein trafficking mechanisms under Chris Kaiser. She performed postdoctoral research with Daniel Starr at the University of California Davis, studying mechanisms of nuclear positioning. Natalie began her editorial career at Cell Reports in 2017 and advanced to Deputy Editor in 2020. There, she managed the editorial process for manuscripts in a broad array of topics, such as immunology, metabolism, cancer, neuroscience, and stem cell/developmental biology.

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