Newswise — BETHESDA, Md., April 2, 2016 — The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will hold its annual meeting April 2 – 6 at the San Diego Convention Center. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Experimental Biology conference, at which five other sponsoring societies and multiple guest societies also will hold their annual meetings.
Below is a list of the ASBMB’s annual award and plenary lecturers (in order of lecture times). For a day-by-day schedule of the ASBMB annual meeting, visit http://asbmb.org/meetings/AM2016/program/.
Herbert Tabor Research AwardRobert G. Roeder, The Rockefeller UniversityTalk title: Eukaryotic transcription mechanisms: from nuclear RNA polymerases to general initiation factors, gene-specific activators, coactivators and chromatin6 p.m. Saturday, April 2, San Diego Convention Center, Room 20 B/CMore information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Tabor/
FASEB Excellence in Science Award and ASBMB Plenary LectureBonnie L. Bassler, Princeton University, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteTalk title: Quorum sensing and its control8 a.m. Sunday, April 3, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6BMore information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201503/PlenaryLecturer/Bassler
ASBMB Plenary LecturePeter Walter, University of California, San Francisco, HHMITalk title: From protein folding to cognition: the serendipitous path of discovery8:45 a.m. Sunday, April 3, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6BMore information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201510/2016Meeting/Walter
ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to EducationCharles Brenner, University of Iowa, Carver College of MedicineTalk title: Biochemistry and molecular biology education in a transforming academy and a molecular world12:30 p.m. Sunday, April 3, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201606/ExemplaryEducation/
Earl and Thressa Stadtman Scholar Award (co-winner)Luciano Marraffini, The Rockefeller UniversityTalk title: CRISPR-Cas, the prokaryotic adaptive immune system 2:15 p.m. Sunday, April 3, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6BMore information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/StadtmanAwardMarraffini
Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science AwardAvery August, Cornell University, College of Veterinary MedicineTalk title: Chemical genetic analysis of mast-cell activation2:40 p.m. Sunday, April 3, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Kirschstein
Avanti Award in LipidsRobert V. Farese Jr., Harvard Medical SchoolTalk title: Mechanisms and physiology of fat synthesis and storage3:15 p.m. Sunday, April 3, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6BMore information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Avanti/
ASBMB Plenary LectureXiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University, HHMITalk title: Illuminating biology at the nanoscale with single-molecule and super-resolution imaging8 a.m. Monday, April 4, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201510/2016Meeting/Zhang
ASBMB Plenary LectureJared P. Rutter, University of Utah, HHMITalk title: Functionalizing the unannotated mitochondrial proteome8:45 a.m. Monday, April 4, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201510/2016Meeting/Rutter
Alice and C.C. Wang Award Symposium in Molecular Parasitology Michael A.J. Ferguson, University of DundeeTalk title: Translating the trypanosome surface9:45 a.m. Monday, April 4, San Diego Convention Center, Room 1A More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/WangAward
Mildred Cohn Award in Biological ChemistryTalk title: Molecular Visualization of the Eukaryotic Transcription Initiation Process using Cryo-EM2:15 p.m. Monday, April 4, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Cohn
Earl and Thressa Stadtman Scholar Award (co-winner) Georgios Skiniotis, University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the University of Michigan Medical SchoolTalk title: Molecular choreography of an antibiotic assembly line 2:50 p.m. Monday, April 4, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/StadtmanAwardSkiniotis
DeLano Award for Computational BiosciencesTodd O. Yeates, University of California, Los AngelesTalk title: Symmetry and computational methods in the design of self-assembling protein materials 3:15 p.m. Monday, April 4, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/DeLano/
ASBMB Young Investigator Award Cole Haynes, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterTalk title: Adaptations to mitochondrial dysfunction via inter-organelle communication 4 p.m. Monday, April 4, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6D Moreno information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/YoungInvestigator/
ASBMB Plenary LectureFrancis S. Collins, National Institutes of HealthTalk title: Everything that matters in biomedicine builds on basic science8 a.m. Tuesday, April 5, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201510/2016Meeting/Collins
Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical ScienceAziz Sancar, University of North Carolina, School of MedicineTalk title: DNA excision repair map of the human genome at nucleotide resolution 8:55 a.m. Tuesday, April 5, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Vallee
ASBMB–Merck AwardRonald R. Breaker, Yale University, HHMITalk title: Prospects for noncoding RNA discovery in bacteria 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Merck
William C. Rose AwardSusan J. Baserga, Yale University, School of MedicineTalk title: When good ribosomes go bad 2:35 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6B More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Rose.aspx
Herbert A. Sober LectureshipStephen G. Sligar, University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignTalk title: The Nanodisc Platform for Determining the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins3:10 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6BMore information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Sober.aspx
Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research Christer S. Ejsing, University of Southern DenmarkTalk title: Functional lipidomics: from lipid timelines to regulation of metabolic networks 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6FMore information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201603/Shaw
ASBMB Plenary LectureAnna M. Pyle, Yale University, HHMITalk title: Regulation of gene expression by complex RNA molecules 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 6, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6D More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201510/2016Meeting/Pyle
ASBMB Plenary LectureMichael K. Rosen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, HHMITalk title: Physical mechanisms of cell organization on micron length scales 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, April 6, San Diego Convention Center, Room 6D More information: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201510/2016Meeting/Rosen
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About the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyThe ASBMB is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization with more than 12,000 members worldwide. Most members teach and conduct research at colleges and universities. Others conduct research in various 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 http://www.asbmb.org.
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