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Joanna gave a keynote today at ASBMB Txn and Chromatin meeting, speaking about this recent preprint. The talk was AMAZING and this is exceptionally cool preprint. So people in NYC should see this upcoming talk!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 1, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Institute Scholar Peter Kim spent 12+ years helping develop and approve 20+ vaccines and medicines, including Gardasil and Keytruda.
His lab at Stanford combines protein engineering and AI to design vaccines with broader, more durable immune protection: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
Turning viral mechanisms into medicines
2027 ASBMB Annual Meeting keynote speaker Peter Kim helped uncover how viruses enter cells before helping lead the development of more than 20 vaccines and medicines. Today, he uses AI and protein…
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October 30, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Day 11 of #TalesFromTheLab 🍄 | An emperor poisoned with mushrooms in 54 AD. Two millennia later, JBC showed how the death cap toxin halts transcription step by step.
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
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Day 11 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. Three mushrooms framed by swirling orange smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Day 13 of #TalesFromTheLab 🎃 | Happy Halloween! We end close to the beginning: a 1910 hunt for strychnine in the blood.
www.jbc.org/article/... #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals
Graphic for ASBMB Journals’ “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 13. A vintage botanical illustration of a leafy flowering plant is surrounded by swirling teal smoke against a dark background.
October 31, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Day 10 of #TalesFromTheLab 🕷️ | Sphingomyelinase D belongs to the enzyme family behind brown recluse bite damage. In JLR, it became a tool for probing cell membranes in C. pseudotuberculosis.
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Day 10 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. Several blue, rod-shaped bacteria appear against a glowing blue background, framed by swirling purple smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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“ASBMB is seeking applications and nominations for its new Scientific Meetings Program Committee. We are looking for scientists who bring strong scientific expertise, broad perspective, and an interest in shaping compelling scientific programming.” If you’re interested, email me, I can nominate.
October 31, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Day 12 of #TalesFromTheLab 🍄 | Up close with the death cap toxin: a cryo-EM structure shows why it binds mammalian Pol II about 3,000× more tightly than yeast Pol II.
www.jbc.org/article/S002... #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals
Graphic for ASBMB Journals’ “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 12. A bright red-orange mushroom with white spots appears against a forest background, framed by swirling blue smoke.
October 30, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Day 8 of #TalesFromTheLab ☠️ | Black mamba. Two toxins sequenced, lethal in fractions of a microgram per gram of body weight. JBC, 1972.
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Day 8 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A close-up image shows a black mamba with its mouth open against a sandy background, framed by swirling blue smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 27, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Day 9 of #TalesFromTheLab 🧪 | How do you measure what's in a venom? MCP introduced a new way to identify and quantify individual venom proteins.
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Day 9 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A close-up image shows a pale golden Bothrops insularis snake, known as the golden lancehead, coiled with its head resting on its body. Swirling teal smoke frames the image. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 27, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Share your research at #ASBMB2027! Connect with fellow researchers, spark cross-disciplinary collaboration & help advance molecular bioscience.

Submit your abstract by Oct. 30 to receive an early decision by Nov. 12 & get a head start on travel planning: www.asbmb.org/annual-meeti....
Two scientists gather around a research poster at the 2026 ASBMB Annual Meeting. One person points to the poster while another looks closely at the displayed research.
October 28, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Day 6 of #TalesFromTheLab 🐍 | Venom week begins. From the JBC archive: decoding a green mamba toxin, one amino acid at a time.
www.jbc.org/article/...
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Day 6 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A close-up image shows a bright green snake coiled against a dark background, framed by swirling purple smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Day 7 Of #TalesFromTheLab 🐍 | From archive to modern methods: MCP profiles the venom peptides of three pit vipers, including two near-threatened species.
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Day 7 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A tan and brown rattlesnake is coiled on rocky ground with its forked tongue extended. Swirling orange smoke frames the image.
October 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Day 4 of #TalesFromTheLab 🩸 | The malaria parasite lives inside your red blood cells and builds its membranes partly from the hemoglobin it digests.

www.jlr.org/article/...
#JLipidRes #ASBMBJournals #LipidResearch #Malaria
Day 4 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. An image of Plasmodium falciparum in the schizont stage inside a red blood cell is framed by swirling blue smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 22, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Day 5 of #TalesFromTheLab 🕵️ | Part 2 of the parasite story: lipid-tagged proteins that malaria parasites use while hiding in red blood cells, and how drugs can disrupt them.
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Day 5 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A light microscopy image shows Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria, among pink-stained red blood cells. Swirling teal smoke frames the image.
October 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Happy #MoleDay!

For biochemists, moles are essential for everything from preparing solutions and calculating reaction stoichiometry to measuring enzyme activity and determining how many molecules of DNA, RNA or protein are present in a sample.
#Chemistry #Biochemistry #MolecularBioscience #STEM
ASBMB Mole Day graphic featuring an illustration of Amedeo Avogadro on a blue background with atom graphics. Text explains that one mole equals 6.02214076 × 10²³ particles and includes a fun fact about Avogadro's contributions to molecular science.
October 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Day 3 of #TalesFromTheLab 🦇 | How do vampire bats keep blood flowing? Their saliva contains a clot-dissolving enzyme that fibrin stimulates 45,000-fold.
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Graphic for “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 3. A bat hangs upside down against tree bark, framed by swirling orange smoke. ASBMB Journals logo at bottom.
October 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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On #WorldCRISPRDay, we’re celebrating Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, who won the 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, CRISPR–Cas9.

🧬 Learn more about their work: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

#CRISPR #GenomeEditing #WomenInScience
Side-by-side portraits of Emmanuelle Charpentier, left, and Jennifer Doudna, right.
October 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Day 2 of #TalesFromTheLab 🐚 | This snail hunts fish. Its venom gland can be 4× the length of its body, and MCP mapped what's brewing inside it.
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Graphic for “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 2. A patterned orange-and-cream cone snail rests on the seafloor, framed by swirling purple smoke. ASBMB Journals logo at bottom.
October 20, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Day 1 of #TalesFromTheLab 🎃 | Fireflies don't waste their glow: this JBC study found an enzyme that recycles the spent light-emitting molecule back into fresh fuel.
www.jbc.org/article/S002... #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals
Graphic for “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 1. A glowing green firefly rests on a leaf against a dark blue background, surrounded by wispy teal smoke. ASBMB Journals logo at bottom.
October 19, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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NSF faces funding cuts and policy changes
ASBMB and its coalition partners are responding to proposals that could alter how the National Science Foundation supports scientific research and education.
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October 19, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Abel B. Daartey, PharmD, a Doctoral Fellow at St. John's University, shares how ASPET's sponsorship of the ASBMB Art of Science Communication Course helped him turn self-consciousness into confidence.

🔗 https://thepharmacologist.org/featured-sep-2026/
October 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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FREE WEBINAR: Lysosomal metabolic signatures in aging and disease | Oct 21, 12 p.m. ET
Explore the latest discoveries in lysosomal biology and lipid research at this month’s ASBMB Lipid Research Division seminar.
https://www.asbmb.org/meetings-events/lysosomal-metabolic-signatures-aging-and-disease
Lysosomal membranes and metabolism in disease and aging
Oct. 21, 2026 | 12 p.m. Eastern
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October 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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How is AI changing what’s possible in protein design?

At #ASBMB2027, plenary speaker Tristan Bepler will explore how generative models are reshaping our understanding of the connections between macromolecular sequences and functions.

www.asbmb.org/annual-meeti...
#MolecularBioscience
2027 ASBMB Annual Meeting graphic featuring a headshot and text reading, “Plenary speaker: AI and the future of biomolecular design. Tristan Bepler, New York Structural Biology Center and OpenProtein.AI.” Boston, April 3–6.
October 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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FREE WEBINAR: Industry perspectives on protein biophysics for drug discovery
📅 Oct. 23 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern

Join us for the kickoff of the ASBMB Industry Perspectives Webinar Series!

✅ Register: www.asbmb.org/meetin... #MolecularBioscience
Industry perspectives on protein biophysics for drug discovery
Oct. 23, 2026 | 12:30 p.m. Eastern
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October 19, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Are you passionate about making science engaging and exciting for everyone? ASBMB wants to help bring your vision to life with the Science Outreach & Communication Grant.

➡️ Learn about the 2026 awardees: asbmb.org/asbmb-today/....

✅ Apply by Oct. 31: asbmb.org/science-outr....
Meet the 2026 SOC grant awardees
Five science outreach and communication projects received up to $1,000 from ASBMB to promote public understanding of the molecular life sciences.
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October 17, 2026 at 6:58 PM