Julie A. Theriot,Anne Simonsen,Iva M. Tolić,Manuel D. Leonetti,Satyajit Mayor,Patricia Bassereau,Ewa K. Paluch,Jiahuai Han,Markus W. Covert,Noboru Mizushima,Samara L. Reck‐Peterson,Andreas Strasser,Iain M. Cheeseman
50 years ago, cell biology was a nascent field. Today, it is a vast discipline whose principles and tools are also applied to other disciplines; vice versa, cell biologists are inspired by other fields. So, the question begs: what is cell biology? The answers are as diverse as the people who define it.