Scientific Program

2016 Annual Meeting Program Co-Chairs: Squire Booker, Pennsylvania State Univ. and Wei Yang, NIH/NIDDK

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Sunday, April 3, 2016 

             9:45 am - 12:00pm

• Cell Signaling, Kinase, and Chemotherapy - Allosteric Control of Kinase Activity   
• Chemical Biology - Welcome to the Post-Antibiotic Era 
• Chromatin Organization and Gene Regulation - Nuclear Architecture and Chromatin Organization  
• Glycoscience in Biology - Regulation of Gene Expression by O-GlcNAc    
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - Hepatic Lipid Signaling: NAFLD and Beyond  
• Systems Biology and Proteomics - Proteomics/Systems Biololgy for Human Health and Medicine  
• Biochemistry Education: Diverse Tools, Diverse Approaches, and Diverse Careers - Advancing Teaching and Learning in the Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Classroom   

4:00 pm - 6:15 pm

• DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination - Replication: Alpha to Omega  
• Bioinorganic Catalysis - Mechanistic Studies of Metalloenzymes   
• Lipids and Lipid Signaling - Membrane Contact Sites and Lipid Trafficking  
• Metabolism, Disease, and Drug Design - Omic Approaches to Target Discovery  
• Protein Synthesis and Degradation - Regulation of Protein Synthesis by RNA  
• Biochemistry Education: Diverse Tools, Diverse Approaches, and Diverse Careers - Integrating Complementary Skills into Graduate and Post-Doc Training   

             9:45 am - 12:00pm

• Parasitology - Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology Symposium
• DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination - Control of DNA Recombination  
• Bioinorganic Catalysis - Enzyme Dynamics and Enzyme Motions  
• Lipids and Lipid Signaling - Lipid Signaling  
• Metabolism, Disease, and Drug Design - Mechanistically-Informed Drug Design 
• Protein Synthesis and Degradation - Building Molecular Machinery  
• Biochemistry Education: Diverse Tools, Diverse Approaches, and Diverse Careers - Biochemistry and Today's Pre-Med Student   

4:00 pm - 6:15 pm

• Cell Signaling, Kinase, and Chemotherapy - Signaling in Time and Space  
• Chemical Biology - The Greening of Chemical Biology  
• Chromatin Organization and Gene Regulation - Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms  
• Glycoscience in Biology - Enzymology of Glycosyl-transferases and Hydrolases    
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - NAFLD: Genetic Determinants & Extrahepatic Complications  
• Systems Biology and Proteomics - Systems Biology of Cellular Networks  
• Biochemistry Education: Diverse Tools, Diverse Approaches, and Diverse Careers - Molecular Visualization is your Friend  

             9:45 am - 12:00 pm

• Cell Signaling, Kinase, and Chemotherapy - Targeted Therapies  
• Chemical Biology - Chemical Communication, Biological Regulation  
• Chromatin Organization and Gene Regulation - Chromatin Remodeling and Epigenetics  
• Glycoscience in Biology - Chemical Biology Approaches to Understand Glycan-related Diseases     
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - NAFLD: Metabolic Insight into the Enzymatic Players  
• Systems Biology and Proteomics - Integrative Proteomics of Protein Complexes  

4:00 pm - 6:15 pm 

• DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination - Structural Insights into DNA Repair  
• Bioinorganic Catalysis - Structural Studies of Complex Systems  
• Lipids and Lipid Signaling - Membrane Lipid Regulation  
• Metabolism, Disease, and Drug Design - Natural Product Biosynthesis for New Drug Leads   
• Protein Synthesis and Degradation - New Frontiers in Protein Quality Control   

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Straight From The Bench, Graduate student and postdoctoral fellow organized sessions

•  Post-translational Modifications
•  Recent Advances in Protein Engineering
  

             9:45 am - 12:00 pm

• DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination - Repair During DNA Replication  
• Bioinorganic Catalysis - Radicals in Catalysis  
• Lipids and Lipid Signaling - Lipids and Energy Metabolism  
• Metabolism, Disease, and Drug Design - Biochemically-informed Imaging in Drug Discovery   
• Protein Synthesis and Degradation - Protein Degradation in Health and Disease  

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm 

• Biochemistry Education - Maximizing Graduate/Postdoctoral Training for Non-Research STEM Careers, Sponsored by the ASBMB Minority Affairs Committee  

2:15 pm - 4:30 pm

• Cell Signaling, Kinase, and Chemotherapy - Tumor Suppressors/Tumor Drivers 
• Chemical Biology - Chemistry, Biology, and Sustainability  
• Chromatin Organization and Gene Regulation - Non-coding RNA and Gene Regulation  
• Glycoscience in Biology - Bacterial Glycosylation and the Microbiome    
•  Systems Biology and Proteomics - Molecular Crosstalks of Multiple Consortia