Newswise — BETHESDA, Md., April 5, 2018 — The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will hold its annual meeting April 21– 25 in San Diego. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Experimental Biology conference, at which four other host societies and multiple guest societies also will hold their annual meetings. The meeting will feature a special Award Symposium at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 22, which will highlight the work of five winners of the Journal of Biological Chemistry/Herbert Tabor Young Investigator Awards.
The JBC/HTYI Awards honor graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are the first authors of exceptional papers published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
“These are young, promising scientists who are going to present really exciting work and become the plenary lecturers of tomorrow,” said George DeMartino of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the JBC associate editor who will chair the session. “This is a chance to see them early on.”
Below is a list of the winners and their talk titles:
Catherine Back, Univ. of Bristol, United Kingdom and Univ. of Louisville School of Dentistry. Structural and Functional Studies of the Streptococcal Fibrillar Adhesin CshA.
More on Back’s work here: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201803/AnnualMeeting/Back/
Nathan B. Johnson, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison. Sensing Changes in Cellular Iron Metabolism: Regulation of Irp1 by Fbxl5 and Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly.
More on Johnson’s work here: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201803/AnnualMeeting/Johnson/
Richard J. Karpowicz, Univ. of Pennsylvania. Selective Imaging of Internalized Proteopathic α-Synuclein Seeds in Primary Neurons Reveals Mechanistic Insight into Transmission of Synucleinopathies.
More on Karpowicz’s work here: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201803/AnnualMeeting/Karpowicz/
Maria Fe Lanfranco, Georgetown Univ. Asymmetric Configurations in a Reengineered Homodimer Reveal Multiple Subunit Communication Pathways in Protein Allostery.
More on Lanfranco’s work here: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201803/AnnualMeeting/FeLanfranco/
Koree Ahn, Northwestern Univ. and Thomas Jefferson Univ. Complex Interplay of Kinetic Factors Governs the Synergistic Properties of HIV-1 Entry Inhibitors.
More on Ahn’s work here: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201803/AnnualMeeting/Ahn/
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For a day-by-day schedule of the ASBMB annual meeting, visit https://www.asbmb.org/meeting2018/program/scheduleataglance/.
About the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The ASBMB is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization with more than 11,000 members worldwide. Most members teach and conduct research at colleges and universities. Others conduct research in government laboratories, at nonprofit research institutions and in industry. The Society’s student members attend undergraduate or graduate institutions. For more information about ASBMB, visit www.asbmb.org.
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