Award lectures

Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education

• Joseph Provost
• University of San Diego

Lecture: Sunday, April 3, 3:30 p.m.
It's all about the students

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ASBMB Early-Career Leadership Award

• Lea Vacca Michel
• Rochester Institute of Technology

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ASBMB Mid-Career Leadership Award

• Marlene Belfort
• University of Albany

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ASBMB–Merck Award

• Robert V. Farese & Tobias Walther
• Harvard University

Lecture: Sunday, April 3, 2:15 p.m.
The phase of fat: mechanisms and physiology of lipid storage

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ASBMB Young Investigator Award

• Greg G. Wang
• University of North Carolina

Lecture: Tuesday, April 5, 2 p.m.
Chromatin-based modulations underlying gene regulation and pathogenesis

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Avanti Award in Lipids

• Alex Toker
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Lecture: Monday, April 4, 8:30 a.m.
PI 3-Kinase signaling: A journey in three AKTs

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Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science

• Elaine Fuchs
• Rockefeller University

Lecture: Tuesday, April 5, 8:30 a.m.
Tissue stem cells: survival of the fittest

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DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences

• Tatyana Sharpee
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Lecture: Monday, April 4, 8 a.m.
Hyperbolic geometry in biological systems

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Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award

• Kathleen Collins
• University of California, Berkeley

Lecture: Monday, April 4, 2 p.m.
Telomerase holoenzymes

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Herbert Tabor Research Award

• Susan Taylor
• University of California, San Diego

Lecture: Sunday, April 3, 8:45 a.m.
My journey with cAMP-dependent protein kinase

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Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry

• Janet Smith
• University of Michigan

Lecture: Monday, April 4, 2:30 p.m.
Flavivirus NS1: Structure and function of an enigmatic virulence factor

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Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award

• Tracy Johnson
• University of California, Los Angeles

Lecture: Tuesday, April 5, 8 a.m.
Beyond diversity: Building a culture of inclusion in science

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The Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology

• John Boothroyd
• Stanford University

Lecture: Monday, April 4, 3:15 p.m.
How one eukaryote invades and co-opts the cells of another: The story of the truly audacious toxoplasma gondii

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Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research

• Michael Airola
• Stony Brook University

Lecture: Sunday, April 3, 3:30 p.m.
Snapshots of lipid synthesis and fat storage

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William C. Rose Award

• J. Martin Bollinger
• Pennsylvania State University

Lecture: Sunday, April 3, 2:45 p.m.
Progress toward understanding protein control of reaction outcome in the diverse reactivity of iron (II) — and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases

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