Annual Meeting

Discover BMB 2024 co-chairs and symposia

ASBMB Today Staff
June 15, 2023

Discover BMB 2024, the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is scheduled to take place March 23–26, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, in San Antonio.

The 2024 meeting co-chairs are Vanina Zaremberg, professor and associate head of graduate programs in the biological sciences, University of Calgary, and Benjamin Tu, professor of biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Here are the symposia themes and organizers:

Microbial signaling, communication and metabolism
Peter Chien, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jade Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Cool and novel enzymes
Shelley Copley, University of Colorado, Boulder
Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, The University of Texas at Austin

RNA biology
Katrin Karbstein, University of Florida, Scripps Biomedical Research
Jeremy Wilusz, Baylor College of Medicine

New frontiers in structural biology
Jose Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
Hosea Nelson, California Institute of Technology

Advances in natural product biochemistry and biotechnology
Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine Ryan, University of British Columbia

Redox and metals in biology
Siavash Kurdistani, University of California, Los Angeles
Gina DeNicola, Moffitt Cancer Center

Membrane contact sites
Chris Beh, Simon Fraser University
Jen Liou, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Lipid metabolism
Maria Fedorova, Dresden University of Technology
Neale Ridgway, Dalhousie University

Signaling mechanisms in the nucleus
Glen Liszczak, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Aaron Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Mitochondria, peroxisomes and chloroplast metabolism
Pere Puigserver, Harvard Medical School
Greg Moorhead, University of Calgary

Maximizing Access Committee
Sonia Flores, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Johnathan Kelber, Baylor University
Kayunta Johnson–Winters, University of Texas–Arlington
Karla Neugebauer, Yale School of Medicine

Education and professional development
Saumya Ramanathan, Arizona State University

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