Calendar of events, awards and opportunities

Industry partnership opportunities with deadlines coming up

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:

• Bayer Pharma: Human stem cells from patients with genetically derived cardiomyopathy
• Private company: Unique methods to measure intestinal water and cotransporter regulation
• BASF: Biodegradable micro-encapsulation of active ingredients
• Private company: Uncovering the “perfect” natural product from a specific bacteria

See the most recent opportunities.

April 15: Deadline to apply for our IMAGE grant writing workshop

The ASBMB Interactive Mentoring Activities for Grantsmanship Enhancement (IMAGE) grant writing workshop helps early-career scientists:

• Write winning proposals for federal research funding. 
• Get information about funding directly from NSF and NIH program officers.
• Engage with other new faculty and experienced investigators to exchange ideas and advice when starting a new lab.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the workshop is free and includes all meals. The deadline to apply is April 15. Apply now! 

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.

April 19: Deadline to apply for the ASBMB's Advocacy Training Program

The ASBMB Advocacy Training program is a three-month externship (May through August) that provides hands-on science policy and advocacy training for ASBMB members. ATP delegates learn about science advocacy, the role of Congress and policymakers in funding science, and how to effectively advocate. With support from ASBMB public affairs staff, delegate will develop and execute their own independent advocacy activity to address an issue affecting the research enterprise and/or their communities. Apply by April 19.

May 17: Submit your nomination for ASBMB's "Molecule of the Year" contest

This is your chance to recognize the discoveries at the heart of groundbreaking advancements, whether it's a revolutionary drug, an important metabolite or an incredible enzyme. Nominate your choice for the molecule of the year, and let's shine a spotlight on the molecules that make the world go round. Once the nominations are in, we'll open up to all ASBMB members to vote for their favorite molecule. Voting will run from May 27 to June 14. Learn more and submit your entry.

May 29: ASBMB's webinar on DOD 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 Department of Defense will present its funding priorities, award opportunities and training grants. Join us to discover the many ways you can get funded by DOD. The webinar starts at 2 p.m. Eastern on May29. Learn more and register.

June 10: Abstract deadline for our transcriptional regulation meeting

Present your work Sept. 26–30 at this ASBMB conference in Alexandria, Va.

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. Submit your abstract and get a discount on registration by June 10.

Aug. 1: Deadline to submit your bioart contest entry

Help us celebrate the beauty of biochemistry and molecular biology by submitting your artwork to the ASBMB's "Molecular Motifs" contest! Submissions may include:

• Photographs (fluorescence microscopy, cells, photos of 3D artworks etc.).
• Molecular visualizations.
• Data visualizations.
• Biomedical illustrations.

This contest is open to ASBMB members of any type. Entrants must be ASBMB members at the time of submission. Our favorite submissions will win a prize — there'll also be a separate prize for submissions from Student Chapters! Learn more and submit your artwork.

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.

There will be seven platform sessions devoted to oral presentations and two poster sessions. In addition to presentations from two keynote speakers and 30 invited speakers, there will be 14 short talks chosen from the abstracts submitted. Learn more and register.

Jan. 21–24: 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

Registration and abstract-submission information will be available in late 2024. Learn more and sign up for email updates to stay informed.

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.