Discover BMB 2024 co-chairs and symposia
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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