Calendar of events, awards and opportunities

June 27: Pride Month Twitter chat

As we do each year, we'll be hosting a Twitter chat for Pride Month. It will be at 2 p.m. Eastern on June 27 and will feature ASBMB staffers, members and representatives of allied organizations. We hope you can join us! Follow us at @ASBMB.

June 28: Becoming an NIH early-career reviewer

This webinar will feature the ins and outs of the Early Career Reviewer Program at the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review, which gives emerging investigators an inside look at the scientific peer-review process. Elyse Schauwecker, a scientific review officer at CSR, will talk about the benefits of participating, eligibility, the application process and recent changes. There will also be time to ask Schauwecker questions about the program and other CSR opportunities for early-career scientists. Anita Corbett of Emory University, a member of the ASBMB Public Affairs Advisory Commitee, will moderate. Register.

June 29: ASBMB Lipid Research Division Seminar Series

The ASBMB Lipid Research Division features the work of young investigators every month. If you are interested in presenting, please contact John Burke. Register once to access the whole series.

This month's seminar — scheduled for noon Eastern on June 29 — will showcase the research of the following:

Bahnisikha Barman, Vanderbilt University: VAP-A and its binding partner CERT drive biogenesis of RNA-containing extracellular vesicles at ER membrane contact sites

Alexandre Toulmay, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: Vps13-like proteins provide phosphatidylethanolamine for GPI anchor synthesis in the ER

June 29 & July 20: ASBMB book club on gender equity

The ASBMB Women in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Committee has launched a book club focused on gender equity for ASBMB members.

June 29: The first book up for (virtual) discussion will be “What Works: Gender Equality by Design” by Iris Bohnet. Save the date: 2 p.m. Eastern on June 29. Karlett Parra of the University of New Mexico and Susan Baserga of Yale University will lead the discussion. Register.

July 20: The next meeting will be about “The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work” by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund and Laurie Weingart. Register.

July 1: Registration deadline for ASBMB mass spec meeting

This five-day conference will be held Aug. 14–18 in person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and online. It will be an international forum for discussion of the remarkable advances in cell and human protein biology revealed by ever-more-innovative and powerful mass spectrometric technologies. The conference 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. The registration deadline is July 1. Learn more.

July 14: Oral abstracts due for transcriptional regulation meeting

This in-person meeting will be held Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 in Snowbird, Utah. Sessions will cover recent advances and new technologies in RNA polymerase II regulation, including the contributions of non-coding RNAs, enhancers and promoters, chromatin structure and post-translational modifications, molecular condensates, and other factors that regulate gene expression. Patrick Cramer of the Max Planck Institute will present the keynote address on the structure and function of transcription regulatory complexes. The deadline for oral presentation abstracts is July 14. The deadline for poster presentation abstracts is Aug. 18. Learn more.

Aug. 2: Abstracts due for epigenetics and genome stability meeting

Most meetings on epigenetics and chromatin focus on transcription, while most meetings on genome integrity include little attention to epigenetics and chromatin. This conference in Seattle will bridge this gap to link researchers who are interested in epigenetic regulations and chromatin with those who are interested in genome integrity. The oral and poster abstract deadline and early registration deadline is Aug. 2. The regular registration deadline is Aug. 29.  Learn more.

Aug. 9: Two-part webinar featuring ASBMB award winners

Starting at noon on Aug. 9, we'll have talks by two 2022 ASBMB award winners, followed by Q&A sessions. Come for one or both!

12 p.m. Eastern: Snapshots of lipid synthesis and fat storage | Michael Airola, Stony Brook University

1:30 p.m. Eastern: Chromatin-based modulations underlying gene regulation and pathogenesis | Greg Wang, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Aug. 15: Workshop and interest group proposals due for #DiscoverBMB

For Discover BMB, the ASBMB's annual meeting in March in Seattle, we're seeking two types of proposals:

• Workshops: These are interactive 60- to 90-minute events focused on careeers, skill building, science outreach and communication, and diversity, equity, access and inclusion. (This article explains what sorts of proposals we're seeking.) Submit a proposal.
• Interest groups: The goal of the interest group sessions is to build communities. (We wrote about how this program got started and how it has worked in the past in this article.) At #DiscoverBMB, interest groups will be scheduled on the first day of the meeting, March 25. Submit an interest group proposal. 

Nov. 2: ASBMB Virtual Career Expo

Save the date for the ASBMB Career Expo. This virtual event aims to highlight the diversity of career choices available to modern biomedical researchers. No matter your career stage, this expo will provide a plethora of career options for you to explore while simultaneously connecting you with knowledgeable professionals in these careers. Each 60-minute session will focus on a different career path and will feature breakout rooms with professionals in those paths. Attendees can choose to meet in a small group with a single professional for the entire session or move freely between breakout rooms to sample advice from multiple professionals. Sessions will feature the following five sectors: industry, government, science communication, science policy and other. The expo will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 2. Stay tuned for a link to register!

Call for virtual scientific event proposals

The ASBMB provides members with a virtual platform to share scientific research and accomplishments and to discuss emerging topics and technologies with the BMB community.

The ASBMB will manage the technical aspects, market the event to tens of thousands of contacts and present the digital event live to a remote audience. Additional tools such as polling, Q&A, breakout rooms and post event Twitter chats may be used to facilitate maximum engagement.

Seminars are typically one to two hours long. A workshop or conference might be longer and even span several days.

Prospective organizers may submit proposals at any time. Decisions are usually made within four to six weeks.

Propose an event.

Take over the JLR Twitter account

If you are a graduate student, postdoc or early-career investigator interested in hosting a #LipidTakeover, fill out this application. You can spend a day tweeting from the Journal of Lipid Research's account (@JLipidRes) about your favorite lipids and your work.