By the end of high school, Crystal Mendoza already had lab experience and was well on her way to a college degree and a promising future. All the bumps in her road lay ahead.

Shane Austin’s linear academic journey to a Ph.D. focused on the study of mitochondria took him many thousands of miles from his island home.

She won the 2024 ASBMB Sustained Leadership Award.

A mid-life crisis in the eye. An alternate approach to finding alternative proteins. A better way to process LC mass spec. Read about recent papers on these topics.

Once organizers started the group that became oSTEM at UT Southwestern, they found a community that was willing and excited to show up.

How Alzheimer’s affects brain glycosylation. Reducing false positives in mass spectrometry. With O-glycopeptides, two methods are better than one. Read about recent papers on these topics.

Membership in the New Mexico State Student Chapter led Clarissa Nuñez to consider a career in science. Now she’s a Ph.D. student at UT Southwestern.

While working on an unrelated project, researchers noticed that membrane fluidization led two membrane glycolipids called PIMs to undergo acylation.

He was a longtime professor of biology at the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School and a member of the ASBMB for more than 50 years.

New lipid markers of liver disease. Leptin landmarks and obesity genetics. How fatty acid versatility extends to Type 2 diabetes. Read about papers on these topics recently published in the Journal of Lipid Research.