BY VYTAS A. BANKAITIS AND TERESA M. DUNN 

At the ASBMB 2011 annual meeting, the "Lipid and Membrane Metabolism" theme will cover phosphoinositides, sphingolipids, phospholipases D and neutral lipids.

BY BARBARA E. CORKEY AND MARC PRENTKI 

The "Metabolism and Disease" meeting theme will cover mitochondrial dysfunction, information transmission, signal transduction and cancer. There also will be a special workshop, titled “New Tools to Study Mitochondrial Function.”

BY CHARLES E. SAMUEL AND KAREN L. O’MALLEY 

Sessions in the ASBMB annual meeting theme "Signal Transduction from the Plasma Membrane to the Nucleus" will look at janus kinase STAT transcription factors, intracellular signaling, innate immunity and circadian rhythms.