The latest research from across the interdisciplinary world of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology came together in one place for scientists to explore at the 2017 ASBMB Annual Meeting. Daily, morning sessions featured invited presentations that created to inform and inspire! Listen to last year's sessions here, and see what is coming up at the 2018 annual meeting in San Diego: http://www.asbmb.org/meeting2018/sessions/.

2017 ASBMB Annual Meeting Scientific Symposia

*The award lecture and its accompanying slides are also available to watch here: https://youtu.be/h8-_Kyqyoq0.

The ASBMB William C. Rose Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education recognizes an individual who demonstrates an exceptional contribution to the teaching of biochemistry and molecular biology. Peter J. Kennelly is a professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he also serves as interim head of the biochemistry department. Kennelly earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1985 and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Washington School of Medicine with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  Learn more: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/081623/asbmb-names-2024-award-winners.

Peter Kennelly: ASBMB William C. Rose Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education

The Avanti Award in Lipids recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids. Tamás Balla is a senior investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He leads the Section on Molecular Signal Transduction, which studies the spatial and temporal organization of cellular membrane lipid composition that serves as platforms for intracellular signals that mediate the actions of cell surface receptors. Learn more: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/081623/asbmb-names-2024-award-winners.

Tamás Balla: Avanti Award in Lipids

*The award lecture and its accompanying slides are also available to watch here: https://youtu.be/AmP_8FG0dDU.

The Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award is awarded to a distinguished scientist for their outstanding achievement in basic research in the fields encompassed by the ASBMB. Bruce Stillman is president and chief executive officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Stillman’s lab studies the process by which DNA is copied within cells before they divide. Learn more: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/081623/asbmb-names-2024-award-winners.

Bruce Stillman: Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award

The Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids by a young investigator. Judith Simcox is an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her lab studies plasma lipids that regulate metabolic disease and explores how these lipids function using lipidomics, genetics, and cellular and molecular biology techniques. Learn more: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/081623/asbmb-names-2024-award-winners.

Judith Simcox: Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research

The Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology recognizes established investigators who are making seminal contributions to the field of molecular parasitology. David S. Roos is a professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania. His laboratory studies the biochemistry, cell biology, molecular genetics, genomics and evolutionary biology of protozoan parasites and host–pathogen interactions, with special interest in Toxoplasma, a prominent opportunistic infection associated with immunodeficient states, and Plasmodium, which causes malaria. Learn more: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/081623/asbmb-names-2024-award-winners.

David Roos: Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology

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10:00 a.m.     Sir Peter Ratcliffe, University of Oxford, Signalling hypoxia by protein hydroxylation: Transcriptional architecture of the HIF response 
10:30 a.m.     Fraydoon Rastinejad, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Visualizing the drug-binding potentials of HIF-α proteins through X-ray crystallography
11:00 a.m.     Eli Wallace, Peloton Therapeutics, Small molecule HIF-2α antagonists and their therapeutic applications
11:30 a.m.     William Kaelin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute*, On-target efficacy of a HIF2α antagonist in preclinical kidney cancer models

Pharmacological Modulation of the HIF Pathway

10:00 a.m.     Yusuf Hannun, Stony Brook University*, Neutral Sphingomyelinase: structure and function
10:25 a.m.     Antonella De Matteis, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Regulation and role of ER-Golgi contact sites
10:50 a.m.     Timothy Hla, Harvard Medical School/ Boston Children's Hospital, Sphingolipid chaperone proteins modulate signal transduction and pathophysiology
11:15 a.m.     Howard Riezman, University of Geneva, Lipid homeostasis and function
11:40 a.m.     Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award introduction and presentation.
11:45 a.m.     Gregory D. Fairn, St. Michael's Hospital, Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research, Molecular probes to study the subcellular localization and dynamics of phospholipids and cholesterol

Biochemistry, Physiology, and Pathophysiology of Sphingolipids

10:00 a.m.     Eric J. Brown, Genentech, Antibody-antibiotic conjugates: a new platform for treatment of serious bacterial infections

10:30 a.m.     Timothy Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Synthetic biology for tackling antimicrobial resistance

11:00 a.m.     Eric Brown, McMaster University, To kill a bacterium, you need to think like a bacterium

11:30 a.m.     Magda Barbu, Synthetic Genomics Vaccine, Inc., Engineered bacteriophage therapeutics against multidrug-resistant pathogens

New Approaches for Antibiotic Discovery

10:00 a.m.     Michelle Wang, Cornell University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Transcriptional dynamics of Mfd

10:30 a.m.     Hendrik Dietz, Technical University of Munich, DNA origami supported precision measurements of biomolecular interactions and structure

11:00 a.m.     Taekjip Ha, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute*, Playing a tug of war with integrin and Notch receptors

11:30 a.m.     Erez S. Lieberman Aiden, Baylor College of Medicine, A 3D code in the human genome

Life at Higher Resolution: Single Molecule and Single Cell

10:00 a.m.     Melissa K. Gardner, University of Minnesota, Regulation of microtubule dynamics by suppression of microtubule assembly kinetics

10:30 a.m.     Marcos Sotomayor, Ohio State University, Strings attached: Sound perception and brain wiring enabled by cadherins

11:00 a.m.     Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago, Mechanics of the actin cytoskeleton

11:30 a.m.     Thomas Pollard, Yale University*, Molecular mechanism of cytokinesis

Pharmacological Modulation of the HIF Pathway

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