Calendar of events, awards and opportunities

March 11 & 13: Vote in the JBC Methods Madness semifinals!

Vote for your favorite method in the Journal of Biological Chemistry's three-week competition. Sixteen prominent methods — eight classics and eight new challengers — are matched up and you get to decide which will be crowned the tournament champion! Vote for your favorite methods on these dates:

• March 11 & 13: Free Radical Four (Semifinals).
• March 18: #JBCMethodsMadness Championship.
• March 20: Champion method and tournament winner announced.

March 15: Deadline extended for PROLAB applications

The Promoting Research Opportunities for Latin American Biochemists (PROLAB) program allows graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to spend up to six months in U.S. or Canadian laboratories. Participants get access to technologies and expertise that may not be readily available in their home countries, allowing them to grow their skills and contribute to building capacity in the life sciences at home.

PROLAB is a joint venture between the Pan-American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Applications are welcomed from trainees and new investigators (not more than five years past postdoctoral work) from all countries active in the PABMB: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay.

March 19: ASBMB career panel and networking event at The College of New Jersey School of Science

ASBMB members are hosting a career panel and networking event at The College of New Jersey on March 19. It will start with a panel of scientists from local industry, the public sector and academic institutions who will talk about their career paths. A networking session with light refreshments will follow. Learn more and register.

March 23–26: See you at #DiscoverBMB in San Antonio

#DiscoverBMB is the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. With a mission to share the latest, most impactful research findings in the molecular life sciences, #DiscoverBMB offers an exciting agenda that includes talks by the field's foremost experts, interactive workshops on the latest trends, technologies and techniques, and an invigorating exhibition of posters, services and products. The meeting attracts researchers in academia and industry, educators, trainees and students from across the globe. It offers unparalleled opportunities for collaborating, networking and recruiting. See the symposia themes and organizers.  Learn more and register.

March 31: Apply for fresh industry partnership opportunities

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has teamed up with Halo to provide ASBMB members fresh industry partnership opportunities each month. Learn more about ASBMB's partnership with Halo. Requests for assistance from companies seeking certain expertise and technologies include:

• Kraft Heinz: Salty enhancing ingredient technology for internal product.
• Cargill: Alternative hydrogenation methods or novel approaches to increase the melting point of oil.
• Daiichi Sankyo: Small molecules and peptides or screening system for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells.
• Private company: Aluminum alternatives for antiperspirants.
• Private company: Peptide production via a fermentation platform.
• Private company: Sustainable ingredients and solutions for hair loss reduction.
• Private company: Solutions to improve scalp comfort during hair coloring.

April 17: ASBMB's webinar on NICHD funding and training opportunities

Join the ASBMB public affairs department in its monthly “Finding the funds” webinar connecting ASBMB members with the unique funding opportunities available to them as BMB scientists. In this edition, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will present its funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants. Join us to discover the many ways you can get funded by NICHD. The webinar starts at 2 p.m. Eastern. Learn more and register.

Sept. 26–30: ASBMB's transcriptional regulation meeting

The fields of transcription biochemistry and molecular biology have become one with chromatin biology and epigenetics with extensive cross-talk. RNA polymerase II and its transcription machinery play an essential role in the modification and remodeling of chromatin, and chromatin regulates gene expression in both normal and pathological conditions. With recent innovations and technological advances in clinical and preclinical research, personalized medicine is becoming a reality, in part because of advances in our understanding of RNA polymerase II. Many established and new investigators have taken on the challenge of elucidating the molecular mechanisms of gene expression by RNA polymerase II in the context of chromatin. The community is highly dynamic and multi-disciplinary, with an ever-changing set of focal areas that establish new paradigms and new ways of thinking about the topic. Even after decades of study, this research area continues to advance, reveal new concepts, and bolsters almost every other area of biology. Learn more.

Oct. 21–25: Conference on epigenetic regulation and genome stability

The ASBMB has partnered with the Biophysical Society of China for a meeting on the interplay between epigenetic regulation and genome stability. It will be held Oct. 21–25 in Wuhan, China. The topics include:

• Epigenetic regulation of genome replication.
• Dynamic epigenetic alterations maintaining genome stability.
• Chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance.
• The role of epigenetic alterations in cancer and aging.

Jan. 21–24, 2025: ASBMB Deuel Conference on Lipids

The 2025 Deuel conference will be at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach, Calif. It is a must-attend event for leading lipids investigators — and for scientists who’ve just begun to explore the role of lipids in their research programs. This event will bring together a diverse array of people, including those who have not attended Deuel or perhaps any lipid meeting before. The conference is a forum for the presentation of new and unpublished data, and attendees enjoy an informal atmosphere that encourages discussion. Interested scientists are invited to attend and encourage trainees to submit abstracts. Read our Q&A with the organizers. Learn more.

Aug. 17–21, 2025: The 15th international symposium on proteomics in the life sciences

This five-day symposium, held at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., will be an international forum for discussion of the remarkable advances in cell and human protein biology revealed by ever-more-innovative and powerful proteomics technologies. Formerly known as the "International symposium on mass spectrometry in the health and life sciences," the meeting has been renamed to reflect the growing number of partial and non-mass spectrometry–based methods under discussion.

The symposium will juxtapose sessions about methodological advances with sessions about the roles those advances play in solving problems and seizing opportunities to understand the composition, dynamics and function of cellular machinery in numerous biological contexts. In addition to celebrating these successes, we also intend to articulate urgent, unmet needs and unsolved problems that will drive the field in the future. In addition to talks by invited plenary and session speakers, short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. See the program of our previous meeting.

Themes:

• Sunday minisymposium — Biofluid proteomics: discovery to clinic
• Emerging technologies: Sample preparation and automation
• Emerging technologies: Instrumentation and data generation
• Emerging technologies: Single cell and spatial proteomics
• Proteomics in structural biology and integration with other high resolution methods
• Interactomics: Understanding pathways, networks and molecular machines
• Chemical biology and chemoproteomics: Toward functional understanding of drugs and their targets
• Cell, organellar and tissue biology: Signaling, cross talk and communication
• Impact of clinical and translational proteomics in human health and treatment
• Multiomics integrative analysis and the emerging roles of machine learning and neural models

Do you have a great idea for a scientific event?

We are now accepting proposals for scientific events to be held in 2024 and 2025. You pick the topic, the sessions and the speakers, and we’ll do the rest.

That’s right! We’ll manage registration, market the event to tens of thousands of scientists, and handle all the logistics so that you can focus on the science.  

The top areas of research interest among ASBMB members include the following, but we’ll consider all proposals:  

• Protein structure and folding 
• Molecular bases of disease 
• Gene regulation 
• Signal transduction 
• Metabolism 

What molecule, method or research question needs more attention? We’re here to help you realize your vision and deliver cutting-edge science to the BMB community. 

Propose an event.