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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Rockville, Maryland
Joined September 2008
We are sickened. We are grieving. We are exhausted. We are angry. We are united. Together, as scientists and leaders in our communities, we cannot sit silently. Read ASBMB's statement and call to step up, speak out and intervene:
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AT LAST! Congratulations to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing!
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How to write a killer cover letter for a postdoctoral application: (Pssst -- @wjsullivan, this article never goes out of style! Always on our most-read list. Every. Single. Day. Thanks for helping so many!).
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The @ASBMB will be observing #BlackHistoryMonth in several ways. First up, crowdsourcing updates to our timeline of black scientists. Please share your suggestions and/or download a copy of the existing timeline for your classroom or lab here:
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We're sad to report that Dr. Herbert Tabor of @NIH, who led @JBiolChem as editor-in-chief for decades, has died at age 101. He was beloved and will be missed. In memoriam:
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The U.S. House passed a package of funding bills for fiscal year 2020 on June 25 that provides $41.1 billion for the National Institutes of Health, an increase of $2 billion from fiscal 2019 and $6.9 billion above President Donald Trump’s budget proposal.
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In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, let's continue to amplify the voices of Black scientists, starting w/@KizzyPhD, @siggs28, @DrHJHenderson, @dr_bsquared, @KayuntaJ, @dr_ohsopretty, @J_I_Benjamin & @ShellainaGordon! @mefeyini highlights their work & careers:
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Thread: ASBMB's Women in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Committee is proud to host a free screening of @PictureaSciFilm followed by a live Q&A. Register to watch the documentary & join this important conversation about how to make science more inclusive.
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Congratulations to @JudithSimcox on winning the Shaw Award! Join us in 214A now for her talk! #MassSpec #Lipids #DiscoverBMB.
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Colors should be used so that they can be perceived by all scientists, colorblind or not:
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Natalia Jura (@JuraLab_UCSF), the inaugural recipient of the ASBMB Early-Career Leadership Award, is an associate professor at @UCSF who aims to understand how cells communicate with each other and the environment. #WomenInSTEM.
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.@SusannaLHarris, a grad student in microbiology and founder of The PhDepression (@PhD_Balance), weighs the perils and rewards of being open about one’s “emotional stability.”.
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Congratulations to Natalia Jura (@JuraLab_UCSF | @UCSF) on winning the 2020 ASBMB Early-Career Leadership Award! The award honors individuals with a strong commitment to advancing the careers of women in biochemistry and molecular biology. #ASBMB2020
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Congratulations to the 2022 class of ASBMB Fellows! These 28 honorees have demonstrated exceptional commitment to the society and have made outstanding contributions to advance the molecular life sciences. #ASBMBFellows2022.
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Many thanks to @SusannaLHarris for contributing this important essay to the August issue of @ASBMB Today. #mentalhealth.
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Congratulations to William Clemons (@clemonslab) on being named a 2022 ASBMB fellow! He studies post-translational processing of membrane proteins, is a member of @jbiolchem's editorial board & has served on our annual meeting committee. #ASBMBFellows2022
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We're very pleased to announce that @alex_toker will be the next editor-in-chief of @JBiolChem!
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To commemorate Black History Month, the ASBMB created a timeline highlighting some important achievements in the life #sciences made by black scientists. Download it here: #BlackInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth
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We are pleased to announce that @jbiolchem, @molcellprot and @jlipidres will become fully open access beginning in January. Learn more:
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Congratulations to @DrLJBrady, John Jimah, @_Picazo, Elizabeth Wasmuth & Velencia Witherspoon, the five postdoctoral scholars in ASBMB's inaugural cohort for the Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers, or MOSAIC, program!.
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Please join us in congratulating ASBMB members @CharlesBNader, @WendyGScientist, @nickingolia and @hargrovelab on receiving awards from the RNA Society (@RNAJournal) this year! #ASBMBMemberNews.
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Congratulations to ASBMB member @Kelly_N_Chacon at @Reed_College_ and Joey Cotruvo (@CotruvoLab) on receiving the 2022 Stiefel Award from the Gordon Research Conference's Metals in Biology community. #ASBMBMemberMonday
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Please join us in congratulating the winners of the ASBMB annual awards! Colleagues nominated the winners for making significant contributions to biochemistry & molecular biology & training emerging scientists. Recipients will give talks at #DiscoverBMB!
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#DiscoverBMB 2024 is a wrap! Thank you SO much to everyone who made it such an incredible meeting. Safe travels home! We'll see you next year in Chicago!
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From physics to structural enzymology — read about the career path of @nozomi_ando, winner of the ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award, before her talk at 1:50 p.m. CDT, Tues., March 26, at #DiscoverBMB.
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The ASBMB is proud to invite you to a free screening of the new documentary "Picture a Scientist" & live panel discussion w/@PictureaSciFilm's co-director @SharonShattuck1. Join us in honoring the perseverance & immeasurable contributions of #womeninSTEM!
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Phyllis Hanson spent two decades researching protein–protein and protein–membrane interactions involved in membrane trafficking at Washington Univ. in St. Louis before her becoming chair of biological chemistry at the Univ. of Michigan Medical School.
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(Thread): Today is #WomenInScience Day! To celebrate, we're sharing ASBMB Today features that highlight #womeninSTEM. To women working in the field, thank you so much for your contributions and for inspiring future scientists! #InternationalWomenAndGirlsInScienceDay.GIF: @UNESCO
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A little more than 20 years ago, @DrBrianStrahl with his postdoctoral advisor David Allis proposed the idea of a “histone code.” While many features of this model have been borne out, Strahl thinks we still have much to learn.
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Over her pioneering career in RNA biology, Joan Steitz has been known as a generous mentor to young scientists and an ardent voice for inclusion in the scientific community. @LaskerFDN @YaleMed
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A model from @KennyGibbsPhD at @NIGMS showed that it’s possible to diversify the workforce within a single tenure cycle. The solution has to do with hiring decisions. #BLACKandSTEM
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Congratulations to Bruce Stillman of @CSHL on winning the ASBMB's Stadtman Award. Join us in Hemisfair Ballroom C2-3 for his award lecture, happening now! #DiscoverBMB
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Congratulations to Catherine Drennan (@Drennan_Lab) at @MITBiology, who won the William C. Rose Award! Her lab studies the structural biology of metalloenzymes, & her pedagogical work includes research into best practices for active lectures. #DiscoverBMB
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Member News | Congratulations to Catherine Drennan (@Drennan_Lab), one of 12 faculty at @MIT, who received the university’s 2020-2021 Committed to Caring mentorship award in June!.
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.@nozomi_ando (@andolab) won the ASBMB’s 2024 Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award! Her academic voyage was not a straight path, but rather a winding exploration driven by curiosity. #DiscoverBMB.
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.@ASBMB members @BookerMan_PSU, @girirajan16 and @LlinasLab — all at @penn_state — received recent honors. Congrats, y’all!
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The NIH plans to fund national cryo-electron microscopy facilities to give biologists better access to the method.
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Today, we’re starting a countdown to the Jan. 1 launch of our journals as GOLD #openaccess. Each day, we’ll add to this thread about what this transition means for @jbiolchem, @jlipidres and @molcellprot readers and the broader community.
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The ASBMB will be expanding its hurricane-relief grant program to biomedical scientists & students in Puerto Rico. Stay tuned for details.
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Before @RockefellerUniv professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (@HHMINEWS) investigator Elaine Fuchs began her groundbreaking work studying skin-derived stem cells, she dreamed of teaching in the Peace Corps — and she still loves an adventure.
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 ASBMB Annual Awards! Colleagues & other leaders in the field nominated the winners for making significant contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology & to the training of emerging scientists. #DiscoverBMB.
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Congratulations to ASBMB members Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna (@doudna_lab), who have won the 2020 @NobelPrize in chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, CRISPR–Cas9! #WomenInSTEM.
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#ASBMBelections | The results are in! Please join us in congratulating ASBMB's newly elected leaders. To our members, thank you for participating in this year's election and helping to shape the future of the society. Learn more about the winners:
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Hiromi Sesaki and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine write about their work in mitochondrial division and fusion, with a focus on the role of three GTPases; mutations in these enzymes lead to disorders that affect the nervous system.
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.@ASBMB Today contributor @Himanshi16b wrote about what it's like to work in America as an international postdoc. "Almost all (international postdocs) are stressed out by their uncertain future."
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Join us in extending congratulations to the 2023 class of #ASBMBfellows! We are grateful for their outstanding commitment to the ASBMB & celebrate their accomplishments in research, education, diversity & inclusion, & service to the scientific community.
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"The road to becoming a professor, particularly for people of color and those considered “Other” (LGBTQIA+, low socioeconomic status, first-generation immigrant), is rarely smooth." —@Kelly_N_Chacon .
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Careers columnist @mefeyini talked to Efraín E. Rivera–Serrano, @NakedCapsid, to learn how he made the switch from having one academic job to having several science communication jobs: #ASBMBCareers.
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Thread: After thoughtful deliberations, the leaders of @expbio's host societies (@ASBMB, @ASIPath, @AnatomyOrg, @APSPhysiology & @ASPET) have made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel #ExpBio 2020 set to take place April 4–7 in San Diego, California. #ASBMB2020
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Save the date! Evolution & core processes in gene expression, organized by @JuliaZeitlinger, @ArnostiDavid, @JustinFay & @NicolasRohner, will be July 21–24, 2022 in Kansas City, Mo. Its focus is on the most recent insights into the cis-regulatory code.
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Congratulations to these emerging researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain and Urugua! They will receive travel grants to advance their work in laboratories in the United States and Canada.
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Kelly Chacón, a third-year assistant professor at @Reed_College_, talks about her nontraditional career path, confronts the stigma surrounding mental health in academia and shares the experiences that fuel her scientific pursuits:
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ASBMB election results are in. Congratulations to Charles Craik, @susannagreer & @ChemmafiaSumter (Council); @BookerMan_PSU & Susan Buchanan (Nominating Committee); and @Dunham_Lab (Publications Committee)!.
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ASBMB staff & members of our Public Affairs Advisory Committee will be on Capitol Hill today advocating for fundamental science research. To support, write your policymakers here: Then, retweet this sticker, & invite friends & colleagues to participate!
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The 2025 ASBMB Annual Meeting will be held April 12–15 in Chicago, and the two scientists running the show are hard at work making sure the program is filled to the brim with exhilarating science and captivating speakers!.
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Johns Hopkins University has announced plans to name a research building on its East Baltimore campus in honor of Henrietta Lacks, whose “immortal cells” have been crucial to biomedical progress over six decades.
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Chalk talks are closed to the public, so faculty job candidates generally don't see one before they have to do their own. Here's what @ASBMB careers columnist @E_Stivison learned from three new principal investigators about in-person and Zoom chalk talks.
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Clinical trials around the world are testing remdesivir, a nucleotide analog, for possible effects against the novel #coronavirus. @LaurelOld asked some experts what makes the molecule interesting. #COVID2019.
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Congratulations to ASBMB award winners Greg Wang, Janet Smith, @NHEBiochem, Susan Taylor, Elaine Fuchs, @alex_toker, @TheTracyLab, Kathleen Collins, @airola_lab, Marlene Belfort, @BobFarese, Tatyana Sharpee, Lea Vacca Michel, @TobiWalther & John Boothroyd!.
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Join us at 2 p.m. on Monday for our "Black in X Movement: Celebrating Black Voices in STEM" Twitter chat with @AdedipeIfe of @BlackInNeuro, @drpepperis100 of @BlackinCMDBio, @blackinthelab of @BlackInChem & @StevensSostre of @BlackInBiophys! #ASBMBBlackinXChat
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In the first entry of her three-part essay series, Suzanne Barbour spoke with five Black men studying or working in the life sciences. Of the five, all cited mentors as a major factor in their decision to pursue a degree in STEM. #BLACKandSTEM (1/2).
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In "Mental illness should not disqualify me," @SusannaLHarris, a grad student in microbiology and founder of @PhD_Balance, weighs the perils and rewards of being open about one’s “emotional stability.”.
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.@jbiolchem Virtual Issue: #Coronaviruses | We hope this collection of articles, assembled by Craig Cameron (@CameronLabUNC), enables and inspires researchers working on SARS-CoV-2 and other deadly viruses, for the good of all.
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Congratulations and welcome to @jlipidres's new junior associate editors, @airola_lab, @DrLJEngelking, Scott Gordon, @RebeccaHaeusler, @RenateSchreibe1 & @JudithSimcox! .
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Brandon Anjuwon–Foster is an associate research scientist & technical project manager in the vaccine sciences division at @PPDCRO. He talked w/@CourtneyCPhD about his experience in academia and government and what motivated him to transition into industry.
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Martin Schmeing and other former trainees celebrate the life of Thomas A. Steitz (1940 — 2018), a 2009 Nobel laureate and giant in the field of structural biology who left a legacy of fundamental discoveries.
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Think that a scientific education means you’re limited to working in a lab your entire life? Think again! Here are 10 real-world skills scientists bring to the workplace: #ASBMBCareers.
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Save the date | Our "Transcriptional regulation: Chromatin & RNA polymerase" meeting will be Sept. 29–Oct. 2, 2022 in Snowbird, Utah. Sessions will cover recent advances and new technologies in RNA polymerase II regulation. Check out the speakers lineup! .
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We are concerned with @realDonaldTrump continued politicization of science. Science doesn’t care about political agendas or election cycles.
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Craig Cameron (@CameronLabUNC), virologist and chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at @UNC_SOM, has assumed the presidency of the @AmerSocVirol. Congratulations! #MemberMonday .
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Congratulations to ASBMB member @CarolynBertozzi and colleagues Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless on receiving today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in click/bio-orthogonal chemistry!.
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Phospholipids provide the membranes that hold our cells together. Valerie O’Donnell at Cardiff University offers a look at how these diverse lipids and their metabolic products play a vital role in human health and disease.
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"Recently, journals such as @jbiolchem have recommended staining membranes with Ponceau S so as to see all proteins rather than just one major protein that could be affected by experimental treatments." .—Peter Lyons.
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"I’m trying to teach my department and institution how to create an environment that is safe for me and other trans people." .—@TLJordanScience .
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.@acorbe2 is the inaugural recipient of the ASBMB Mid-Career Leadership Award. Her research group focuses on understanding the molecular basis for diseases, particularly how missense mutations in proteins lead to distinct disease phenotypes: #WomenInSTEM.
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Here are some pointers on how to best prepare manuscript figures for submission:
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Congratulations to ASBMB member @BerondaM on being named interim assistant vice president of the @michiganstateu office of research and innovation! .
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"I want to introduce the idea of proteins as dynamic molecules that are constantly in motion into the high school curriculum in a very accessible way." .—Denise Okafor, assistant professor at @PSUScience.
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Congratulations to Miami University (@miamiuniversity) biochemistry majors Krystina Hird and Matt Morris on being named 2018–2019 Beckman scholars. They each will receive $19,300 to support their undergraduate research. @BeckmanFnd
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Congratulations to @RotonyaC (@carr_lab) at @PennMedicine, a former @jlipidres junior associate editor, on being an inaugural recipient of the International Ceramide Committee's Lina Obeid Award for young investigators! #ASBMBMemberMonday @SL_Biology
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.@beatamierzwa, a postdoctoral researcher at @Ludwig_Cancer at @UCSanDiego, works in the lab doing experiments or data analysis. Then, in the evenings & on weekends, she works on art and outreach. Learn more in @mefeyini's latest #ASBMBCareers article:
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Encourage members of Congress to support legislation to broaden participation by underrepresented minorities, women and veterans in STEM. Here's Matt Gentry, chair of ASBMB's public affairs advisory committee, with details on how you can participate:
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Today sixteen ASBMB researchers from 15 states to meet with U.S. senators and representatives on Capitol Hill to advocate for basic science research funding for @NIH, @NSF, & @doescience. @locke_marissa has the story: #ASBMBHillDay23 #ASBMBadvocates.
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Johns Hopkins University plans to name a research building on its campus in honor of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have been crucial to biomedical progress, including the development of anti-tumor & anti-viral treatments and the polio vaccine. #BlackandSTEM.
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