SUNDAY, APRIL 29
Avanti Award in Lipids - 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m., Ballroom C
"Phosphoinositide Lipid Signaling in the Regulation of Membrane Trafficking and Organelle Identity"
SCOTT D. EMR, Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, will present recent research on phosphoinositide lipids, which are molecules in cell membranes that regulate cell growth; the transport of molecules between or within cells; and the arrangement of the cell's cytoskeleton, a network of fibers throughout the cell's cytoplasm that helps the cell maintain its shape and gives it support.
ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education - 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m., Room 201
"The Importance of Research in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Explorations in Genomics"
SARAH C. ELGIN, Professor of Biology, Genetics and Education at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., will explain how students and scientists are working together on a research project that annotates and analyzes fruit fly chromosomes. Future projects will take advantage of the increasing amount of data on genomes, large and small, now available in public databases.
ASBMB-Merck Award - 2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m., Ballroom C
"Quinoproteins and Cofactors: Expecting the Unexpected"
JUDITH P. KLINMAN, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, B
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
23-Apr-2007