Interest group sessions
Call for proposals
ASBMB encourages members to organize interest group sessions at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Interest group sessions are mini symposia with the goal of highlighting cutting-edge research, facilitating discussions among participants and presenters, and building community for ongoing engagement and collaboration.
Interest group sessions focus on the following scientific themes:
- BMB education
- Cancer biology
- Cell and developmental biology
- Chemical biology
- Computational biology, predictive technology and AI
- DNA structure and function
- Drug discovery and pharmacology
- Enzyme chemistry and catalysis
- Epigenetics and gene regulation
- Glycobiology and extracellular matrices
- Immunology
- Lipids and membranes
- Metabolism
- Microbiology
- Neurobiology
- Plant biology and natural products
- Protein structure, function and engineering
- Proteomics and mass spectrometry
- RNA
- Signal transduction
Organizers will shape the content of their session, select speakers and design the format. Interest group sessions are not intended as a platform to present abstracts submitted for the annual meeting. The goal is to create sessions that bring together individuals with shared interests, enhancing opportunities for discussion and collaboration.
Interest group organizers will sustain networking and engagement by promoting and hosting a meetup within the exhibit hall and contributing to the interest group's online forum. Proposals will be evaluated based on their strength, relevance to the annual meeting's needs, and capacity.
Organizers must be regular, industry, or early-career members of the ASBMB. See all proposal criteria
Make connections
ASBMB interest groups operate year-round, host sessions and meetups at the annual meeting, and more. Join one or more interest groups today and then weigh in on the ASBMB Active Site, a platform that brings scientists together to catalyze discussion and accelerate discovery.