Calendar of events, awards and opportunities

Nov. 16: #ASBMBabstracts and #ASBMBposters Twitter chat

The deadline to submit your abstract for the 2022 ASBMB Annual Meeting is coming up on Nov. 30 (more on #ASBMB2022 deadlines below). If you’re looking for abstract and poster presentation advice, we hope you'll join our Twitter chat on Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 2–4:30 p.m. Eastern. The chat will be divided into three sections:

• Abstract best practices (2–2:50 p.m.)
• Poster best practices (2:50–3:40 p.m.)
• Undergraduate poster competition (3:40–4:30 p.m.)

Bill Sullivan (@wjsullivan), a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine and author of the ASBMB Today article "How to write a killer abstract in 10 sentences," and Ken Farabaugh, ASBMB's developmental editor (joining via the Journal of Biological Chemistry's Twitter account, @JBiolChem), will be covering abstract-writing best practices.

Panelists joining to discuss poster presentations and the ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition include:

• Joe Chihade, a professor at Carleton College in Minnesota and a member of the poster competition committee.
• Kristin Fox (@foxkunion), a professor at Union College in New York state.
• Phillip Ortiz (@STEMPipeline), assistant provost for undergraduate and STEM education at the State University of New York.
• Stephanie Paxson (@stephaniepaxson), ASBMB's journal marketing associate and previous diversity and undergraduate education coordinator.
• Joseph Provost (@NHEBiochem), a professor and chair of the chemistry and biochemistry department at the University of San Diego and former chair of the ASBMB Student Chapters Committee.

Vahe Bandarian (@Vahooster), a co-chair of the 2022 meeting, will also be dropping in.

This Twitter chat will be a great opportunity to get some extra support for writing your abstract and preparing to present your research. It's also a great way to learn more about the undergraduate poster competition, which was recently featured in ASBMB Today. Read "All about the ASBMB Undergraduate Poster Competition." For those who've considered being a judge at the undergraduate poster competition, we also encourage you to stop by the Twitter chat.

If you can't join the chat live, not to worry: We'll post a Twitter moment so you can look back at the pointers and recommendations.

Check your eligibility for a travel award for  #ASBMB2022

The ASBMB annual meeting will be held in person in Philadelphia in April. The society offers more than $270,000 in awards to assist first authors presenting research at the annual meeting. Here are the award categories:

• Dependent Care Grant
• Early Career Faculty Award
• Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Researcher Award
• Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award supported by the ASBMB Minority Affairs Committee
• Student Chapters Award
• Undergraduate Faculty Award

Application submission instructions and guidelines

Important dates

• Nov. 30: First deadline for abstracts (if you want to be considered for a talk, submit by this date)
• Dec. 6: Deadline for travel award applications (at 5 p.m. Eastern)
• Dec. 15: Last-chance abstract submissions begin
• Jan. 27: Last-chance abstract submissions end
• Feb. 7: Early registration (largest discount) ends
• Feb. 8: Advance registration (smaller but still significant discount) begins
• March 18: Advance registration ends
• March 19: Regular registration begins

Jan. 10: Submit an abstract for the ASBMB Deuel Conference on Lipids

The ASBMB Deuel conference — to be held March 1–4 in Monterey, Calif. — is a must-attend event for leading lipids investigators.

“We'd love to bring in people who might not have cut their teeth in the lipid metabolism field but have found their way to studying lipids. In many cases, that's where you get the most exciting, unusual and off-the-wall presentations, and that can spark collaborations that may have otherwise not have happened,” co-organizer Russell DeBose–Boyd told ASBMB Today.

This year's theme is "Location, location, location: How lipid trafficking impacts cell signaling and metabolism." In an interview, co-organizer Arun Radhakrishnan explains it this way: “In recent years, we have begun to gain deep insights into the mechanisms of lipid trafficking. We thought it would be great to have a meeting focusing on that aspect and what those what these new insights are telling us about cell signaling and metabolism.”

The early registration deadline is Dec. 6. Abstracts are being accepted through Jan. 10. Regular registration ends Feb. 1. See the program.

July 7–10: O-GlcNAc regulation of cellular physiology and pathophysiology

This conference, to be held in person in Athens, Ga., will address the multitude of roles that the O-GlcNAc protein modification has in regulating nuclear and cytosolic proteins. It will bring together researchers from diverse fields to share their research, tools and experience in O-GlcNAc biology. The organizers are Gerald Hart and Lance Wells, both of the University of Georgia. Learn more.

July 21–24: Evolution and core processes in gene expression

Coming to an in-person venue in the summer of 2022: The focus of this meeting is to discuss the most recent insights into the cis-regulatory code, how cis-regulatory information is read out by transcription factors, signaling pathways and other proteins, how cellular diversity is created during development and how we can study this problem using cutting-edge genomics technology and computational methods.

The meeting will simultaneously examine the problem from an evolutionary perspective: how cis-regulatory elements evolve, how regulatory variation affects gene expression and phenotypes, how these changes have shaped development and parallel evolution, and how noise affects regulatory circuits and their evolution.

Stay tuned for abstract and registration deadlines.

Aug. 14–18: Mass spectrometry in the health and life sciences

This five-day conference 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. Registration and abstract submission begins Nov. 1. Abstracts are due may 16. Learn more.

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.