Since its founding in 1906, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has had 82 presidents.

For more information about ASBMB presidents, go to the ASBMB history site.

Structural Basis for the Function of the Sacchromyces cerevisiae Gfd1 Protein in mRNA Nuclear Export

Chao Zheng, Milo B. Fasken, Neil J. Marshall, Christoph Brockmann, Max E. Rubinson, Susan R. Wente, Anita H. Corbett and Murray Stewart

Genetic Deletion of Apolipoprotein A-I Increases Airway Hyperresponsiveness, Inflammation and Collagen Deposition in the Lung

Weiling Wang, Hao Xu, Yang Shi, Sandhya Nandedkar, Hao Zhang, Haiqing Gao, Thom Feroah, Dorothee Weihrauch, Marie L. Schulte, Deron W. Jones, Jason Jarzembowski, Mary Sorci-Thomas and Kirkwood A. Pritchard, Jr.

Use of a Single Chain Antibody Library for Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Discovery

Arturo B. Ramirez, Christian M. Loch, Yuzheng Zhang, Yan Liu, Xiaohong Wang, Elizabeth A. Wayner, Jonathon E. Sargent, Sahar Sibani, Eugenie Hainsworth, Eliseo A Mendoza, Ralph Eugene, Joshua LaBaer, Nicole D. Urban, Martin W. McIntosh and Paul D. Lampe

BY DAVID TAYLOR

David Taylor explains how he ended up in a career in research administration at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute and why he finds his "strange new world" so appealing. 

BY PETER C. PREUSCH 

A special session at the 2010 ASBMB meeting in Anaheim looked at the new biology phase of the Protein Structure Initiative a large scale effort to accelerate discovery in structural genomics. This article details some of the topics that were discussed at that meeting.

BY TERTIUS DE KLUYVER

A look at the European Union's REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) legislation, enacted to address public demand for the control of toxic chemicals used in manufacturing and agriculture. 

BY PETER J. KENNELLY

Although we are facing a funding crisis, divorcing undergraduate education from research will not insure continued innovation and success in the laboratory and the classroom, as some suggest.

BY JOANN SWEASY AND MARLENE BELFORT  

The four sessions in the "DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair" 2011 annual meeting theme will focus on genomic instability, chromosome dynamics and gene therapy, processing of non-B form DNA by the cell and RNA as a mediator of genome plasticity. 

BY IVAN DIKIC AND RAMANUJAN HEGDE

The sessions in the "Protein Synthesis and Degradation" theme will cover the ribosome and protein translation, membrane protein biosynthesis, protein folding and quality control and protein aggregation and autophagy. 

BY SQUIRE J. BOOKER AND L. MARIO AMZEL

The 2011 annual meeting theme "Structure, Mechanism and Regulation in Enzyme Catalysis" will look at metals and redox chemistry, sulfur chemistry and biological redox, processive enzymes and kinases, phosphatases, and phosphorus in biological reactions.

BY KAROLIN LUGER AND QIANG ZHOU  

The "Transcription/Chromatin" theme will contain sessions titled: "Structural Transitions in Chromatin - An Exploration of Mechanisms," "Alternative Chromatin Structures," "RNA Polymerase Pausing and Elongation" and "Transcriptional Regulation in Growth, Differentiation and Diseases."

BY WENDY F. BOSS

Phosphoinositides play important roles in both environmental response and metabolism in plants. This article looks at some of these molecules and the parts they play.

BY ANTHONY J. BAUCUM II

An overview of current postdoctoral demographics and the challenges faced by many of today’s postdocs.