2023 session recordings

ASBMB Annual Award lectures

• Adventures in the biological chemistry, molecular biology and evolution of sialic acids
  Herbert Tabor Research Award
• What does educating biochemists really mean?
  ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education lecture & session
• An unexpected strategy for the biosynthesis of archaeal macrocyclic lipids
  ASBMB–Merck Award
• Regulation of proteostasis in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway
  Avanti Award in Lipids
• Antibodies against emerging infectious diseases
  Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science
• Discovering new molecular mechanisms of cell death
  Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award
• How to build, manipulate and destroy functional nanodomains in cell membranes
  Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry
• Guess who’s coming to dinner?
  Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award
• How lipid chemistry shapes biology: from the powerhouse of our cells to the bottom of the earth’s oceans
  Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research
• Revealing the secrets of metalloenzymes one snapshot at a time
  William C. Rose Award
• Quorum sensing and developmental mechanisms in African Trypanosomes
  Harnessing genomics to understand malaria biology
  The Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology

ASBMB journals

• JBC Herbert Tabor early career investigator awards
• Into the lipidome: Spotlight on the Journal of Lipid Research Junior Associate Editors
• Proteomics reveals new biological insights

AI and machine learning

• AI and machine learning
• Bioinformatics/systems biology
• Drug design
• Structure determination

Bias in, bias out in data science

• Race as a human construct: We are only human, not a race
• How selection bias and data interpretation contribute to disparities in health outcomes and artificial intelligence development

Biochemistry of elemental cycling

• Frontiers of the nitrogen cycle
• Metals, microbes and minerals
• The enzymology of the carbon cycle

Chemical biology

• Chemical biology, drug discovery and bioanalytical methods
• Chemical biology of natural products, nucleic acids and small molecules
• New tools for studying complex biology

Computational biology

• Computational biology

Diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome

• Diabetes, obesity and mitochondria

DNA recombination, structure and topology

• DNA recombination, structure and topology

Drug screening and development

• Drug screening and development

Education and professional development

• Artificial intelligence and BMB education
• Cultural humility and BMB education
• Education and professional development
• Implementing equitable and inclusive practices in academia
• Intentional leadership and BMB education

Enzymes

• Biological electron transfer and microbial redox chemistry
• Enzymes and cofactors
• Enzyme chemistry, mechanisms and catalysis
• Enzymes, coenzymes and mechanism
• Structures and functions of carbohydrate-active enzymes

Epigenetic modifications of DNA and RNA

• Epigenetics and DNA repair

G proteins and small GTPases

• G proteins and small GTPases

Glycobiology

• Carbohydrate biocatalysts and glycan-binding probes/materials
• Chemical glycobiology and tools for glycoscience
• Glycans and glycan binding proteins
• Glycans in disease
• Glycan-protein interactions in diseases
• Protein O-GlcNAcylation and functions
• Regulatory glycosylation
• Synthesis of glycans for exploring their role in health and disease

Lipids

• Lipids and inflammation
• Lipids and membranes
• Membrane proteins, lipid interactions and lipid domains
• Membrane structure and dynamics
• Molecular insight into lipid metabolism and transport
• New roles for lipids in microorganisms and viruses
• Tools for the study of lipid and membrane protein interactions

Metabolism

• Metabolic physiology
• Metabolism and bioenergetics
• Metabolism and metabolomics
• Metabolism in health and disease
• Metabolism of cell proliferation
• Organelle metabolism

Microbiomes

• Biochemistry in the microbiome

Organelles and compartments

• Behavior and misbehavior of cellular compartments
• Compartmentalization of metabolism across organisms and length-scales

Organelles, mechanisms and phase properties of cellular quality control

• Bacterial organelles
• Inter-organelle communication
• Phase separation in organelle structure and function

Proteins

• Disordered protein in diseases
• Fast switch in signaling: Kinases and phosphatases
• Methodology investigating disordered proteins and condensates
• Posttranslational mechanisms of protein regulation
• Protein engineering and design
• Protein folding and degradation: Chaperones and the proteosome
• Protein kinases and phosphatases
• Protein machines at the intersection of genome maintenance and gene regulation
• Protein modifications
• Protein structure and biophysics 1
• Protein structure and biophysics 2
• Protein structure and function
• Protein synthesis, structure, modifications and interactions 1
• Protein synthesis, structure, modifications and interactions 2
• Transport and signaling

RNA

• A comprehensive approach to the analysis of mRNA-based therapeutics to assess structure and purity
• Noncoding RNAs
• Novel RNAs: Localization, form, function
• RNA-binding proteins and disease
• RNA modifications: discovery and function
• RNA: Processing, transport and regulatory mechanisms

Signaling

• Cancer signaling and apoptosis
• Cell signaling and disease
• Liquid-liquid phase separation as a signaling paradigm
• Mechanistic insights into immune signaling
• Neuronal development and demise
• Spatiotemporal control of cellular signaling
• Toolkit for native biochemistry: Sensors, actuators, and computational tools

Structural dynamics of enzymes and multienzyme complexes

• New insights into cellular machines
• Structural dynamics of enzymes and multienzyme complexes

Transcriptional mechanisms, regulation and RNA polymerases

• New mechanisms for transcriptional control of gene expression
• Order in the days of chaos: Transcription regulation facilitated by phase separation