Contributors
Poornima Sankar
Poornima Sankar is a graduate student at the Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Medical Center. She studies the immunology of tuberculosis. She is passionate about research as well as science communication. She is an ASBMB Today volunteer contributor.
Articles by Poornima Sankar
Journal News
Quantifying how proteins in microbe and host interact
Nov. 20, 2024
“To develop better vaccines, we need new methods and a better understanding of the antibody responses that develop in immune individuals,” author Johan Malmström said.
Award
Leading the charge for gender equity
Nov. 19, 2024
Nicole Woitowich will receive the ASBMB Emerging Leadership Award at the 2025 ASBMB Annual meeting, April 12–15 in Chicago.
Journal of Lipid Research
Finding the transcriptional basis of diet-induced obesity
Aug. 20, 2024
A recent study shows the previously unknown role of hepatic transcription factor FOXA3 in metabolic disease.
Journal News
From the journals: JLR
May 3, 2024
How lipogenesis works in liver steatosis. Removing protein aggregates from stressed cells. Linking plasma lipid profiles to cardiovascular health. Read about recent papers on these topics.
In Memoriam
In memoriam: Charles Kasper
Dec. 4, 2023
He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and an ASBMB member since 1970.
Annual Meeting
In failure, Simcox finds a way to learn
Nov. 16, 2023
She has won the ASBMB’s Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator in Lipid Research Award.