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Rockville, Maryland
Joined September 2008
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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. ow.ly/baCq5101bMI #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals
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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. ow.ly/Gj5r5100HlA #MolCellProt #ASBMBJournals #MolecularBioscience
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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. jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(1… #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals #MolecularBioscience
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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. ow.ly/JaAE5100GJU #MolCellProt #ASBMBJournals #LipidResearch
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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. jlr.org/article/S0022-2275(2… #JLipidRes #ASBMBJournals #LipidResearch #Malaria
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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. ow.ly/gBBX50ZZ8Wx #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals
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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. ow.ly/Z88X50ZZ89n #MolCellProt #ASBMBJournals
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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. ow.ly/RYXY50ZZ7H3 #JBiolChem #ASBMBJournals
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Dr. Moult’s pioneering work in protein structure prediction continues to advance computational biology and AI-driven science. We are proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition! To read more: go.umd.edu/john-moult-delano… @UMDscience @ASBMB
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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Prof. of @VandyPharm @hamm_heidi received the Herbert Tabor Research Award from @ASBMB. This award is given for outstanding, innovative accomplishments in #BiologicalChemistry and #MolecularBiology and contributions to the community of scientists. buff.ly/KKNb4nb
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Congratulations to Edward Chouchani, PhD, principal investigator of @DanaFarber’s Chouchani Lab, for receiving the @ASBMB Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award honoring an early-career scientist for significant research in biochemistry and molecular biology.
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Laura Dassama on being awarded the 2027 @ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research, recognizing her outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids: brnw.ch/21x5yXP
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Congrats to Laura Dassama, recipient of the @ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research! Her discoveries in bacterial lipid transport and metabolism are advancing research on host-pathogen interactions and anti-infective therapies. #StanfordChem #SarafanChEMH
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Let's make it happen!
📅 Molecular Bioscience Week is coming Oct. 5–9! Join researchers, educators, students & science communicators for a week of virtual workshops, outreach discussions, networking & more celebrating the impact of fundamental research. asbmb.org/molecular-bioscien… #MolecularBioscienceWeek
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VICB is proud to celebrate two members for recent honors and #leadership achievements! 🏆 @hamm_heidi: 2027 @ASBMB Herbert Tabor Research Award 🌎 @BFEichman: @royalsociety Wolfson Visiting Fellowship #Congratulations @VUBasicSciences @VUmedicine @VandyPharm @VanderbiltU
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Congratulations to #HHMIInvestigator Edward Chouchani (@DanaFarber), recipient of @ASBMB’s Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award — an honor recognizing early career excellence in biochemistry & molecular biology: bit.ly/4xg9hGI.
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