Abstract categories

Abstracts for presentation at #DiscoverBMB will be accepted in the following categories.

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• Bacteria and parasites: from microbiome to antibiotics
  • Microbe/parasite–host interactions
  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Antibacterial targets and drug discovery
  • Microbiomes
• BMB education and professional development
  • Active learning in the molecular life sciences
  • Big data in molecular life sciences, student projects, labs and the classroom
  • Institutional change and faculty perspectives about teaching in the life sciences
  • Service learning initiatives, community involvement and context dependent biochemistry instruction
• Chemical biology, drug discovery and bioanalytical methods
  • Drug screening and development
  • Chemical biology of natural products, nucleic acids and small molecules
  • Chemical probes, biosensors and biomarkers
  • Protein engineering and design
  • Protein–small molecule interactions
  • Nanotechnology
• Chromatin structure, remodeling and gene expression
  • Epigenetic modifications of DNA and RNA
  • Transcriptional mechanisms, regulation and RNA polymerases
• Computational biology
  • AI and machine learning
  • Bioinformatics
• DNA recombination, structure and topology
  • DNA polymerases, telomerase, replicases and replisomes
• Enzyme chemistry and catalysis
  • Enzyme mechanisms, kinetics and energetics
  • Structural dynamics of enzymes and multienzyme complexes
  • Enzyme regulation and allosterism
• Genomics, glycomics, proteomics and metabolomics
  • Genomics
  • Glycomics
  • Proteomics
  • Metabolomics
• Glycans and glycobiology
  • Glycosyltransferases and hydrolases
  • Glycan binding proteins
  • Glycans in disease
• Lipids and membranes
  • Regulation of lipid metabolism
  • Lipids and inflammation
  • Membrane proteins, lipid interactions and lipid domains
  • Vesicle trafficking and cargo
• Metabolism and bioenergetics
  • Oxidative stress and reactive oxygen
  • Metabolism and cancer
  • Metabolism and nutrition
  • Diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome
• Organelles and compartments
  • Quality control in organelles
  • Phase separation in organelle structure and function
  • Inter-organelle communication
• Protein synthesis, structure, modifications and interactions
  • Mechanisms and regulation of protein synthesis and dynamics
  • Protein interactions and binding
  • Protein modifications
  • Protein structure and biophysics
  • Protein folding and degradation: chaperones and the proteosome
  • Protein turnover, misfolding, aggregation and degradation
  • Intrinsically disordered proteins, prions and amyloids
• RNA: Processing, transport and regulatory mechanisms
  • RNA binding proteins
  • Non-coding RNAs
  • RNA processing and editing
• Signal transduction and cellular regulation
  • Extracellular matrix and cell signaling
  • G proteins and small GTPases
  • Protein kinases and phosphatases
  • Apoptosis and cell death
  • Tumor suppressors and tumor drivers
  • Cancer signaling and therapeutics
  • Neurobiology and neuronal signaling
  • Immune signaling