DiscoverBMB 2023 program

Day 1
Saturday, March 25
9 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Day 2
Sunday, March 26
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Day 3
Monday, March 27
8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Day 4
Tuesday, March 28
8 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
First-time attendee & new member orientation Grad/Postdoc travel awardee networking event Yoga Yoga
Yoga Wellness walk
Organized by the ASBMB Women in BMB Committee
Lab management workshop Symposia
  • Metabolic physiology
  • Structure determination
  • Implicit bias
  • The enzymology of the carbon cycle
  • Toolkit for native biochemistry: Sensors, actuators and computational tools
  • Education and professional development
  • Synthesis of glycans for exploring their role in health and disease
  • New roles for lipids in microorganisms and viruses
  • Bacterial organelles
  • Protein machines at the intersection of genome maintenance and gene regulation
  • RNA binding proteins and disease
  • JBC Herbert Tabor Early Career Investigator Awards
Symposia
  • Metabolism in health and disease
  • Drug design
  • Race as a human construct: We are only human, not a race
  • Frontiers of the nitrogen cycle
  • Spatiotemporal control of cellular signaling
  • Education and professional development
  • Chemical glycobiology and tools for glycoscience
  • Molecular insight into lipid metabolism and transport
  • Phase separation in organelle structure and function
  • Methodology investigating disordered proteins and condensates
  • RNA modifications: discovery and function
  • Into the lipidome: spotlight on Journal of Lipid Research junior associate editors
Symposia
  • Organelle metabolism
  • Bioinformatics / Systems biology
  • How selection bias and data interpretation contribute to disparities in health outcomes and artificial intelligence development
  • Metals, microbes and minerals
  • Liquid–liquid phase separation as a signaling paradigm
  • Education and professional development
  • Carbohydrate biocatalysts and glycan-binding probes/materials
  • Membrane structure and dynamics
  • Inter-organelle communication
  • Disordered protein in diseases
  • Novel RNAs: localization, form, function
  • Proteomics reveals new biological insights
Undergraduate Student Poster Competition
Interest group sessions
  • Teaching Gen Z: Challenges and opportunities
  • Empowering trainees: A roundtable with the IUBMB Trainee Initiative
  • Bile acids: Fantastic beasts or fantastic molecules?
  • Biochemistry and climate change
  • Molecular engineering
  • Building research and mentoring networks for women at predominantly undergraduate institutions
  • Engineering enzymes and microorganisms to replace petroleum products with renewable biofuels and biomaterials
  • Emerging topics and techniques: focus on protein acetylation and oxidation
Undergraduate speed networking workshop
ASBMB welcome address Award lectures
  • Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award
  • DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
Award lectures
  • Ruth Krischstein Diversity in Science Award
  • Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science
Award lectures
  • ASBMB–Merck Award
  • William C. Rose Award
Award lecture
  • Herbert Tabor Research Award
Workshops
  • Using open-source molecular docking and visualization tools to explore protein–ligand interaction in the undergraduate classroom
  • Outreach for all ages: How to build an outreach program targeted to an appropriate audience
  • Incorporating anti-racism, social justice and equity themes into biochemistry courses
  • Building science communication training into your classrooms, training programs and large-scale grants
  • Building professional relationships
Workshops
  • Basics of the iCn3D program, a user-friendly tool for biomolecular modeling
  • Building partnerships to bridge STEM outreach to the real world
  • Developing scientific writing courses for different stages of STEM training
  • Anti-racist classroom practices
  • Advocacy Town Hall
  • National Science Foundation funding opportunities for research and broader impacts
Workshops
  • Your data, magnified — success in scientific publishing
  • Capturing student attention by escaping traditional pedagogy
  • Seconds to impress: CV workshop
  • How to engage in advocacy as a scientist
Award lectures
  • Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education lecture and session
  • Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry
Award lecture
  • The Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology Symposium
Award lectures
  • Avanti Award in Lipids
  • Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research
ASBMB–IUBMB tribute to Eddy Fischer: Reversible phosphorylation
Spotlight Sessions
Short talks selected from volunteer abstracts
Spotlight Sessions
Short talks selected from volunteer abstracts
Spotlight Sessions
Short talks selected from volunteer abstracts
Exhibit hall
  • Welcome reception
  • Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awardee posters
  • Exhibitor products and services
  • Interest group meetups
  • Raffle prizes
Exhibit hall
  • Poster sessions
  • Meet the experts
  • Career development
  • Meetups
  • Exhibitor products and services
  • One-on-one mentoring
  • Society programs
  • Raffle prizes
Exhibit hall
  • Poster sessions
  • Meet the experts
  • Career development
  • Meetups
  • Exhibitor products and services
  • One-on-one mentoring
  • Society programs
  • Raffle prizes
Exhibit hall
  • Poster sessions
  • Meet the experts
  • Meetups
  • Exhibitor products and services
  • Community science day (high school students)
  • Flash talk competition
  • One-on-one mentoring
  • Society programs
  • Raffle prizes
  Women scientists networking event
including the ASBMB Mid-Career Leadership Award
Student Chapter adviser/undergraduate faculty reception Networking reception at the Seattle Aquarium