Every week, we update this list with new meetings, awards, scholarships and events to help you advance your career.If youd like us to feature something that youre offering to the bioscience community, email us with the subject line For calendar. ASBMB members offerings take priority, and we do not promote products/services. Learn how to advertise in ASBMB Today.

The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is offering $500 to graduate students and postdocs displaced from their labs as a result of natural disaster, war or "other events beyond their control that interrupt their training." The money is for travel and settling in. Learn more and spread the word to those who could use assistance.

This conference, to be held in person in Athens, Ga., will address the multitude of roles that the O-GlcNAc protein modification has in regulating nuclear and cytosolic proteins. It will bring together researchers from diverse fields to share their research, tools and experience in O-GlcNAc biology. The abstract deadline is April 26, and the early registration deadline is May 9. Submit an abstract.Learn more in this Q&A with organizers Gerald Hart and Lance Wells.

The ASBMB Lipid Research Division features the work of young investigators at noon Eastern on Wednesdays. If you are interested in presenting, please contactJohn Burke. Registeronce to access the whole series.

The next seminar on April 27 will be aboutregulation of plasma membrane dynamics by PIP kinases. It will feature Nirmalya Bag of the Indian Institute of Technology and Federico Gulluni of the University of Turin in Italy.

The Sphingolipid Biology webinar seriescontinuesApril 27 with two talks on lysosomal storage diseases. Elsa Rodrigues ofUniversidade de Lisboa will give atalk titled "CYP46A1 as a therapeutic target in Niemann-Pick type C disorder," and Janet Deane of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research will give a talktitled "Identifying new players in Krabbe disease: How galactosphingolipids alter membrane protein abundance." Register.

The National Institutes of Health will host speaker Joanna Fares of Emergence Therapeutics and Jenn Symonds of Spherix Consulting Group on April 27 for an 11 a.m. Eastern webinar on careers in scientific project management. Register.

Endpoints News is hosting a webinar titled "The R&D challenge: What are the best practices in drug development today?" Speakers/panelists include: Alise Reicin, president and chief executive officer of Tectonic Therapeutic; Arie Belldegrun, is executive chairman and co-founder of Allogene; Norbert Bischofberger, president and CEO of Kronos Bio; David Schenkein, a general partner at GV; and Abhay Kini, director of life sciences at Egnyte. Learn more.

DDN is hosing a seminar about interventions that target the bloodbrain barrier to facilitate drug delivery. It will feature Zhenpeng Qin of the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, Olaf van Tellingen of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Costas Arvanitis, of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, and Graeme F. Woodworth of the Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Maryland. Learn more.

The ASBMB Annual Awards are given to outstanding professionals who have been recognized by their peers for contributions to their fields, education and diversity. In addition to a monetary award, recipients will give talks about their work at the 2023 annual meeting in Seattle.Know someone who deserves to be recognized for their work? Check out the available awards and submit your nomination today.

The American Neurological Association and the National Research Mentoring Network have teamed up for this lunchtime webinar about distance mentorship. Here's how they characterize it: "Distance mentorship allows mentormentee partners to continue to work together despite geography and continue to flourish virtually. Whether the mentorship is a long-distance one from the start or evolves to one over time, several best practices exist to succeed. This webinar is a roundtable discussion with mentors and mentees who will discuss the successes, challengesand tips that allowed their relationships to thrive." Register.

We were contacted by Caroline Mueller, assistant professor at Ohio University, about a survey for early-career medical educators. She wrote: "We hope that through this survey, we will identify the needs of early-career medical educators and develop appropriate resources for new faculty." Learn more and complete the survey by April 30.

The Genetics Society of America's DeLill Nasser Award for for Professional Development in Genetics "supports geneticists in their graduate or postdoctoral career stages by subsidizing participation in conferences and laboratory courses." The prize (up to $1,000) can be used for attending virtual or in-person events. Applicants must be members of GSA. Learn more.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Graduate Student Research program is accepting applications until May 4. The program supports U.S. graduate students seeking to conduct part of their thesis research at a DOE national lab or host site with a DOE scientist. The program is open to Ph.D. students who are conducting their thesis research in targeted areas of importance to the DOE Office of Science. Learn more.

The 2020 documentary Coded Bias explores biases embedded into technology. These biases affect the behaviors, outputs and consequences of countless devices, tools and digital spaces and often lead to or perpetuate inequity. Self-driving cars, facial recognition software, motion-activated appliances, job applicant screens and algorithms used for medical decision making theyre only as good as the code that defines their functions. The film describes in chilling fashion numerous prejudicial and even dangerous outcomes caused by biases hard-wired into data-centric technologies, and it makes the case for systemic changes needed to safeguard users and hold the tech industry accountable. Interested? The ASBMB Women in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Committee is hosting a screening and virtual panel discussion at 4 p.m. EDT on May 4. Committee member Meghna Gupta will moderate, and Jeff Kapler and Marina Holz will be panelists. The link to access the film will be sent to all registered attendees two weeks prior to the event. (The film also can be streamed on Netflix.) Register.

This in-person meetingin Kansas City, Mo., will showcasethe most recent insights into the cis-regulatory code, how cis-regulatory information is read out by transcription factors, signaling pathways and other proteins, how cellular diversity is created during development and how we can study this problem using cutting-edge genomics technology and computational methods.The meeting will simultaneously examine the problem from an evolutionary perspective: how cis-regulatory elements evolve, how regulatory variation affects gene expression and phenotypes, how these changes have shaped development and parallel evolution, and how noise affects regulatory circuits and their evolution. The abstract deadline for those who'd like to be considered for talks is May 6. The abstract deadline for poster presenters and the registration deadline is May 25.Submit an abstract.Learn more in this Q&A with two of the organizers.

The National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Womens Healthhas issued a request for information "on research gaps, clinical practice needs, and research opportunities to inform research priority setting at the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and/or long COVID and the health of women." Read the RFI.

The National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Womens Health is hosting its annual Vivian W. Pinn Symposium on May 12 to markNational Women's Health Week. The event will focus on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the careers of women in science. Learn more.

This five-day conference will be held Aug. 1418 in person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and online. It will be an international forum for discussion of the remarkable advances in cell and human protein biology revealed by ever-more-innovative and powerful mass spectrometric technologies. The conference will juxtapose sessions about methodological advances with sessions about the roles those advances play in solving problems and seizing opportunities to understand the composition, dynamics and function of cellular machinery in numerous biological contexts. In addition to celebrating these successes, we also intend to articulate urgent, unmet needs and unsolved problems that will drive the field in the future. Registration and abstract submission begins Nov. 1. Abstracts are due May 16. Learn more.

The Protein Society is hosting a virtual workshop on emerging approaches in membrane protein design. It'll include presentations by Joanna Slusky of the University of Kansas, Anastassia Andreevna Vorobieva of the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Sarel Fleishman of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Patrick Barth of EPFL, who is also the event organizer. Register.

For the Versatile PhD's webinar series, career coach Tina Li will provide advice on launching and building your brand online and offline. Learn about the series.

The Marion B. Sewer Distinguished Scholarship for Undergraduates offers financial support to students who demonstrate an interest in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology and enhance the diversity of science. Students whose social, educational or economic background adds to the diversity of the biomedical workforce or who show commitment to enhancing academic success of underrepresented students are eligible. The scholarship provides up to $2,000 toward undergraduate tuition costs for one academic year and can be applied to fall or spring tuition of the year following scholarship award notification. Up to ten scholarships will be awarded each academic year. Applications by individuals from underrepresented groups are encouraged, although all qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin. Apply.

The Oklahoma Cobre in Structural Biology at the University of Oklahoma is hosting its 10th annual structural biology symposium on June 16. Confirmed speakers include Hao Wu of Harvard University, Breann Brown of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Lorena Saelices of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Satish Nair of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Erica Ollman Saphire of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. Check here for details and to register.

The Journal of Science Policy & Governance, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Major Group for Children and Youth announced in February a call for papers for a special issue on "open science policies as an accelerator for achieving the sustainable development goals." The deadline for submissions is July 10. To help authors prepare their submissions, the group will be hosting a series of webinars (April 8 & 29, May 20, and June 10) and a science policy paper-writing workshop (March 2627). Read the call for submissions and learn more about the events.

Head to beautiful Denver, Colorado, for a summer experience as a PRIDE (Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research) scholar. PRIDE is an initiative of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute that trains junior faculty from underrepresented backgrounds and/or with disabilities to advance their scientific careers and make them more competitive for external research funding. The University of Colorado PRIDE (led by Sonia C. Flores, who also leads the ASBMB Minority Affairs Committee) is one of nine national PRIDE sites. Its focus is on the "impact of ancestry and gender on omics of lung and cardiovascular diseases" (which is why it's called PRIDEAGOLD). The program consists of two consecutive summer institutes (two and one week, respectively) that offer comprehensive formal instruction on multi-omics, data sciences and bioinformatics, with an emphasis on interpretations based on ancestry and/or gender; career development and grant-writing tools; pairing with expert mentors; and pilot funds to develop a small research project. Learn more.

This in-person meeting will be held Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 in Snowbird, Utah. Sessionswill cover recent advances and new technologies in RNA polymerase II regulation, including the contributions of non-coding RNAs, enhancers and promoters, chromatin structure and post-translational modifications, molecular condensates, and other factors that regulate gene expression. Patrick Cramer of the Max Planck Institute will present the keynote address on the structure and function of transcription regulatory complexes. The deadline for oral presentation abstracts is July 14. The deadline for poster presentation abstracts is Aug. 18.Learn more.

Most meetings on epigenetics and chromatin focus on transcription, while most meetings on genome integrity include little attention to epigenetics and chromatin. This conference in Seattle will bridge this gap to link researchers who are interested in epigenetic regulations and chromatin with those who are interested in genome integrity. The oral and poster abstract deadline and early registration deadline is Aug. 2. The regular registration deadline is Aug. 29.Learn more..

The ASBMB provides members with a virtual platform to share scientific research and accomplishments and to discuss emerging topics and technologies with the BMB community.

The ASBMB will manage the technical aspects, market the event to tens of thousands of contacts and present the digital event live to a remote audience. Additional tools such as polling, Q&A, breakout rooms and post event Twitter chats may be used to facilitate maximum engagement.

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