ASBMB 2025
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology takes place April 12–15 in Chicago.
What do you want to make possible?
When you attend the 2025 ASBMB Annual Meeting, you’ll shape what’s possible — for your science, your career and the future of biochemistry and molecular biology research.
- Present your latest research among scientific leaders and peers.
- Hear from experts across disciplines, sectors and specialties, joining discussions that keep your team at the cutting edge.
- Network and discover new findings and approaches within your specialty and across the biosciences to identify new avenues and collaborations
- Explore education and training strategies and participate in programs that elevate and engage the next generation of scientists.
- Check out the newest technologies and tools on the exhibit floor.
- Explore professional opportunities and chart your next career move.
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Showcase your products and services and connect face-to-face with researchers in academia and the molecular life sciences industry.
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Delve into the best of BMB
The program planning committee, chaired by Donita Brady of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Dave Pagliarini of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has assembled a slate of inspiring symposia. Explore the themes and see who's speaking:
- Chemical tools to reveal new biology
- Empowering futures: The transformative power of mentorship in science
- Host–pathogen interactions
- Interorganellar communication and signaling
- Lipids and membranes
- Maximizing access through diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility
- Metabolism and biosynthesis
- Metals of life: From microbes to medicine
- Molecular movement and compartmentalization — contacts, transporters and nanodomains
- New frontiers in enzyme and pseudoenzyme research
- Oncogenic hubs: Chromatin regulatory and transcriptional complexes in cancer
- RNA biology
- Structural biology of proteins and subcellular structures
- Synthetic biology
Important dates
| Sept. 18 | Abstract submission and travel award application opens |
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| Oct. 30 | Early-decision abstract deadline |
| Dec. 2 | Registration and housing opens |
| Dec. 9 | Regular abstract deadline |
| Dec. 9 | Travel award application deadline |
| Jan. 6 | Late-breaking abstract submission opens |
| Jan. 25 | Authors of regular abstracts notified of poster presentation selection |
| Jan. 28 | Late-breaking abstract deadline |
| Feb. 18 | Early registration deadline |
| April 10 | Regular registration deadline |