Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Cell Signaling

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Welcome to the Cell Signaling taskforce of WikiProject Molecular Biology.
If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the talkpage of WikiProject Molecular Biology, the centralized point for discussion, thank you.

In 2007, some Wikipedians formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Cell Signaling and to help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions up until 2013, when the project became inactive; If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Scope

This project was dedicated to improving and organising the Wikipedia articles on cell signaling to provide a convenient and reliable reference of the known signal transduction pathways. It covers the pathway pages and individual protein pages related to them.

Goals

• Creating comprehensive articles for each known cell signaling pathway
• Organising cell signaling articles with navigation boxes like these: Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology#Protein topics navigation boxes.
• Organising and creating articles on notable proteins involved in signaling pathways.
• Providing each pathway with a clear diagram of its structure.
• Clearly citing sources, especially for active research topics

Target audience

• Introduction to pathway articles should make minimal use of jargon and be kept relatively simple
• Subsections and protein pages can be more technical

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Article Structure

Proposed structure of a pathway article:

• General introduction - keep it simple and clear
• History/Discovery - discovery, seminal papers
• Mechanism - the proteins involved and how they interact.
• Role - the role of the pathway
• Human disease - alternatively this can be incorporated into the previous section
• Current research - recent advances, future directions

Proposed scheme for pathway diagrams is described here. Please do comment and contribute.

Participants

A list of Cell Signaling taskforce members (along with some of their interests) is maintained under the WikiProject Molecular Biology page. To join, simply add yourself at that page and indicate your interests.

Although this taskforce is currently considered inactive, it can always be reactivated if there are interested participants!

Name	Talk page	Status	Special interests
Rrten00	Talk		EGFR,ErbB2, and MAPK, along with some knowledge of AKT and p53/p21
George Damoulakis	Talk	Casually active	Small G proteins, PI 3-kinase signalling, immunology and neutrophil biology
Peter Znamenskiy	Talk		Cell culture and adult stem cells
F Guesdon	Talk	Casually active	Molecular evolution in the Innate Immune system, particularly TLRs (Toll-like Receptor) and TAK1 (MAP3K7)
Rockpocket	Talk		G-protein coupled receptors
David Iberri	Talk		Embryogenesis (especially nervous system development)
John Schmidt	Talk		illustrations
Gacggt	Talk		Skeletal Muscle biology, Akt pathway, NF-kappaB pathway, some GPCRs, Neurotrophins, MuSK, agrin, Neuromuscular junction, etc.
Kohlasz	Talk		Chemotaxis
EquationDoc	Talk		Pathways involved in cancer prevention and formation
JE.at.UWO	Talk		Immunology, development, endocrinology and reproductive physiology.
Biochemza	Talk	Casually active	Immunology, neutrophils, tyrosine kinase signaling, calcium signaling
cyclopamine	Talk	Casually active	Hedgehog pathway, Adult stem cells and cancer
Wisdom89	Talk		Phospholipase, small and large G proteins
David.Throop	Talk		Working on Eicosanoid, Nonclassic eicosanoid and related articles. I am trying to get Eicosanoid up to FA status.
Jmcclare	Talk		Neurochemistry, G proteins, ion channels, pharmacology
Snellios	Talk	Casually active	Knowledgeable on G proteins, ion channels, pharmacology (especially CNS pharmacology), calcium signaling.
ACGGGG	Talk	Casually active	NF-kappaB, MAPKs, innate immunity
Stephen Helms	Talk		G proteins,phospholipase C,protein kinase C,calcium,scaffolding proteins,ion channels, and signaling organization
davebridges	talk	Casually active	G proteins, GAPVD1, protein phosphorylation, pi3p
Subcellular	talk		Ion channels (particularly LGICs), calcium, GPCRs
JustAnotherKinase	talk		[Cell physiology, particularly in immunology and cardiovascular sciences.
Rod57	talk	Casually active	PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, Pathways involved in cancer prevention and formation
MChapman5	Talk	Moderately active (for Spring 2013)	Student in Graduate Level Signal Transduction Class; Undergraduate at Saint Louis University obtaining a B.S. in Biology.
Marcelo Behar	Talk	Casually active	NF-kappaB,MAPKs,Yeast,Crosstalk_(biology), Regulation of signaling transduction, specificity/cross-talk control.

Guestlist

If you'd really like to contribute, but don't have much time, you can still participate by adding your name to the Guestlist.

Name	Special interests
Tyciol (talk · contribs)	Currently I'm studying biology but don't know enough about cell signaling to be an adequate participant, will once I study it in the future.
Jbarin (talk · contribs)	Immunology, autoimmune disease, T cells, cytokines
Miguel AngeloR (talk · contribs)	Im a student of Celular and Molecular Biology at the New University of Lisbon, I would like to contribute to this page seen as it is the main topic on my course. I so far have complete my Celular biology class in which most of this subject was discussed. I do not know much about how to contribute to wiki and work with other people on the same page, so if would like my help on any subject please contact me and informe about what i need to do. Tanks
Xarus	Undergraduate student of Department of Biology in Yonsei Unv. Also working as an intern student in Glycomics lab. O-GlcNAc, Cell signaling
aqua112233 (talk · contribs)	Immunology, cytokines
stevia_badger (talk · contribs)	Undergraduate in Cell & Molecular Biology and Biochemistry departments. Decent access to primary literature for citations, through institutional libraries/databases. Currently working to get familiar with Wikipedia's editing format, so please let me know if there are any relatively simple tasks in need of completion for the project.

Articles in Categories

• Category:Signal transduction
• Category:Cell signaling (proposed to be merged with Category:Signal Transduction).