Official Twitter of the American Chemical Society's Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology. Here for any and all scientists at the Chem-Bio interface.
You voted and we listened, folks: The
#ACSDBC
is officially getting a bold new look! We're SO excited to bring our Division into this next chapter to reflect the cutting-edge work of our members and welcome new, interdisciplinary faces into our corner of the ACS. More to come!!!
Thrilled that
#ACSSpring2024
Council voted to approve BIOL
@ACS_DivBioChem
's name change request to *Biochemistry and Chemical Biology*! 90% of BIOL members voted that this better represents them & we hope to provide a home for even more scientists
@AmerChemSociety
- More soon!
Awesome news! Polly Fordyce
@fordycelab
@Stanford_ChEMH
is the recipient of the 2023 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry! Her revolutionary work on high throughput quantitative methods to study proteins and enzymes will be showcased in a special award Symposium
#FallACS2023
!
The DBC is pleased to announce that J. Martin Bollinger of Penn State University has been chosen as the winner of the 2023 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes. Congratulations to Prof. Bollinger!
Congratulations to Ben Cravatt of
@scrippsresearch
on receiving the 2024 Bristol Myers Squibb Award in Enzyme Chemistry! The Cravatt lab has had substantial impacts ranging from fundamental research to advancing clinical candidates. Hear more during our symposium at
#ACSFall2024
!
The DBC is pleased to announce that Prof. Karen Allen of Boston University is the winner of the inaugural Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes for 2022!
@BUChemistry
@allenlab
@AmerChemSociety
Congratulations to Bryan Dickinson (
@chembioBryan
) of
@UChiChemistry
on winning the ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award! See the symposium in his honor at the
#ACSSpring2023
meeting this Sunday from 8-10:10 AM EST
#ACSDBC
Enough about us, the
#ACSDBC
wants to hear about YOU! We're celebrating members of the
@AmerChemSociety
's Division of Biological Chemistry. Fill out this quick form, and you could be featured on our social media!
#Chemistry
#ChemicalBiology
At the 2022 Fall ACS, be sure to attend the symposium for the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry to honor Prof. Lingyin Li and her amazing work on the molecular basis for innate immune activation!
Congrats to our Eli Lilly Awardees in Biological Chemistry, Jordan Meier (2021)
@doc_jlmeier
Lingyin Li (2022)
@lingyinli1
. We
#BIOL
are happy to celebrate your accomplishments and bright future
#ACSFall2022
! We also thanks Jordan for his service as a DBC counselor!
DBC 2022 Abeles and Jencks Awardee Karen Allen
@kna6662
@allenlab
gets her actual award! Thanks to DBC treasurer Christine Chow
@chrstysc
for the inspiration and making it happen, and designer Mary Iverson
@maryiverson
. The award and the awardee are awesome!
Huge congrats to Dr.
@lingyinli1
for the 2022 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry! Dr. Li has made substantial and significant contributions to discovering the molecular basis for innate immune activation through the STING pathway. Read more:
Congratulations to
@CotruvoLab
of
@psu_chemistry
on receiving the 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry from the
#ACSDBC
! His award-winning work focuses on f-block rare-Earth elements in biology, with applications from biosensing to recovering strategic metals from E-waste
Don't miss the new symposium for the Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes at the Fall ACS meeting! We'll honor the 2022 awardee, Prof. Karen Allen, for her pioneering work on the structure, function, catalytic mechanisms, and evolution of enzymes!
Congratulations to Sarah Slavoff of
@YaleWestCampus
on Receiving the ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award! The
@SlavoffL
studies
#genomic
dark matter and its interactions with RNA in human cells.
@ACSBioMed
Don't miss the Pfizer Award Symposium honoring Amie Boal on Aug 23 (Virtual)
Speakers: Lauren Rajakovich, Rachelle Copeland, Hannah Rose
Pfizer Awardee Address: Amie Boal
This is what
@jenheemstra
means by mentor-first. L'Huillier didn't let her
#NobelPrize
call interrupt her class because her students' time and education is VALUABLE. Now none of them will ever forget that. This is the lesson of a lifetime in how to handle sudden fame with grace.
Dedicated teacher alert!
Not even the 2023
#NobelPrize
in Physics could tear Anne L'Huillier from her students.
Our new physics laureate was busy teaching a class. During a scheduled break, she heard the news.
After the phone call, L'Huillier went right back to her students.
@JohnHolbein1
They used to give them out during orientation, but quickly changed course. [Illustration from 1923 faculty manual, University of Helsinki]
Congratulations to
@CraigMCrews
on receiving the Kimberly Prize from
@NUFeinbergMed
for pioneering studies of
#PROTACs
in the lab and their translation to clinical trials! Read more here:
Great thing about in-person ACS meetings-- talking science! Jordan Meier
@doc_jlmeier
talking with Ben Cravatt during our Eli Lilly Symposium coffee break
#ACSFall2022
! Hope they came up with new cancer chemotherapeutics!
Don't miss the Eli Lilly Symposium honoring Jordan Meier
@doc_jlmeier
on Aug 24 (Virtual)
Speakers: Michael Burkart, Jennifer Petter, Eranthie Weerapana, Paul Thompson, Carolyn Bertozzi
Eli Lilly Awardee Address: Jordan Meier
Meet us tomorrow morning for the Ables and Jencks Award Symposium honoring J. Martin Bollinger of
@psu_chemistry
! 8-12 PM in Moscone Center South Room 210
With the semester starting, many PIs, postdocs, and even graduate students are bound to encounter undergraduates who embrace new and unfamiliar terms. Here's a handy cheat-sheet of "lit" terms for the uninitiated.
Congratulations to
@CraigMCrews
of
@MCDB_Yale
on receiving the inaugural Bristol Myers Squibb Award in Enzyme Chemistry! The award recognizes Dr. Crews' pioneering use of small molecules to control intracellular protein levels for its impact on biotech and human health.
#ACSDBC
Going to
#ACSFall2023
in San Francisco? Applications for the Bristol Myers Squibb Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the
#ACSDBC
are due this Saturday, 4/15: ! Independent researchers from any career stage/institution are welcome to apply.
Chris Walsh will be sorely missed by all of us! He was one of the pioneers that laid the foundation of chemists studying biology. One of Walsh's last public lectures (or perhaps it was the last one) was the Hammes Award Lecturer sponsored by Biochemistry and the DBC!
From fire ant pheromones to antibiotic resistance to defining biosynthetic logic, Chris Walsh transformed our field.
@cenmag
provides a brief tribute to his life and legacy here:
And explore his 196 Biochemistry papers here:
Congratulations to Richard Silverman of
@NUChemistry
on receiving the 2024 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes! Though most famous for the epilepsy drug Lyrica, his enzymology work paved the way for targeting "undruggable" PLP-dependent enzymes.
Don't miss our special symposium Celebrating Diversity in Biological chemistry and the trailblazing biochemist Marie Daly at the Fall ACS meeting (8/22)!
Sibrina Collins will share her amazing story.
Idk if I should say this on the Division account, but I am SO HONORED to be part of this esteemed group of young scientists!!! Looking forward to meeting the rest of the 2024
#CASFutureLeaders
this summer!!!
Announcing the 2024
#CASFutureLeaders
! This group of exceptional Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars will join us in August to take the next steps in their leadership journeys. Congratulations to our 2024 class!
Chemist Josh Smalley is competing in The Great British Bake Off this year. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, where he cooks up small-molecule probes and proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs). Read more:
Meet the winners of the ACS Travel Awards! Amanda Graboski
@ManderzzG
is a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Redinbo lab and the Pharmacology department at UNC Chapel Hill.
You can find her poster on Sunday (8/22) from 7-9pm in Atlanta!
Meet the winners of the ACS Travel Award! Andrea Guedez Pena
@andreaguedez10is
a Venezuelan Ph.D Candidate, member of Ryu's lab at TCU. Working on directed evolution of proteins and aptamers.
You can find her Monday 8/23/2021 at 11:45- 12PM at the BIOL Grad Student Symposium!
This is
#ACSDBC
's biggest day of
#ACSSpring2024
yet!
🧑🏿🔬Celebrating Black Biochemists/Chem Biologists, 350 at 8 AM
🌱Grad Research, 353 at 8 AM
🛜 Virtual poster session, 12 PM
🏆Nobel Signature Award, 350 at 2 PM
🧪Biochem❌ChemBio, 353 at 2 PM
🗓️Poster session, Hall C at 7 PM
Long-time member/friend of
#ACSDBC
@BookerMan_PSU
has always been at the forefront of enzyme mechanism research from radical SAMs to iron-sulfur clusters. He's also worked tirelessly to support the
#biochem
community through service and mentoring young scientists.
#BlackinChem
Looking forward to DBC Travel awardee Phoenix Williams
@PhoenixNiaimani
's poster presentation on 20 March from 7:00-9:00 pm. Phoenix is working to create small organic molecules to probe Protein-Protein Interactions relevant to transcriptional activation.
@AnnaMapp
@MichiganChem
Check out the fantastic line-up of in-person, hybrid and virtual talks and posters
@FallACS2022
#BIOL
. Our IP/Hybrid oral sesions are all at the Marriott Marquis Chicago, in Glessner House C or Great Lakes F. Just come over Sunday AM, and stay all week!!
Winner of the DBC travel award Victoria Marando
@vicmarando
from the
@KiesslingGroup
is presenting a talk on 3/23 at 9:05 am. Victoria works on the synthesis and application of small molecule probes to learn more about the mycobacterial cell wall during growth and infection!
Here's to a great symposium in honor of the inaugural ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award! Congratulations again to
@chembioBryan
and a big thank-you to all presenters for the wonderful talks!
#ACSSpring2023
#ACSDBC
Radhika Sharma from the
@salaitalab
will be presenting a poster on enhancing the activity and delivery of antisense oligonucleotides through designing ASO-Nanodisc conjugates for gene regulation on Sunday March 20 7-9 PM. Radhika is a winner of the ACS DBC travel award!
Looking forward to hear
@ConlonSavannah
from
@David_lab_UCD
talk about Excision of oxidative DNA damage from G-quadruplex structures by the NEIL family of DNA repair enzymes on 3/22 at 5:30PM! Savannah is one of the DBC Graduate Presenter Awardees! Make sure to attend her talk!
Tomorrow's 🏳️🌈
@ACSPride_prof
🏳️⚧️Symposium from 2-6 PM in the Cyril Magnin I room of the Hilton Parc 55 hotel features an excellent session of undergrad presentations followed by a star-studded cast of LGBTQ+ chemists
@drdre4000
,
@MJchemist
, and Raul Navarro!
Make sure to attend Erin Doherty's
@Ee_Doherty
talk on using structural information for ADAR2-RNA complexes to design chemical modifications to guide RNAs for site-directed RNA editing on Monday, March 21 from 5:30 - 5:45 PM. Erin is an ACS DBC travel award winner!
@UCDChem
Meet the winners of the ACS Travel awards! Jacque Faylo
@jylnnfay
is studying terpene biosynthesis in David Christianson’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania
You can see her talk at 8AM Tuesday 8/24!
Please congratulate
@FangFangShen1
from
@lmkdassama
for winning the DBC travel award! Fangfang will give an oral presentation about cell permeable nanobody-based degraders for targeted protein degradation on 3/23 from 4:45 - 5:00 pm! Excited to hear about it!
How it started vs how it's going 😎
Check out the new and improved
#ACSDBC
website at
A HUGE thanks to
@jademmcdaniel
, who worked so gosh-darn hard and did such a great job!
Looking forward to the oral presentation by DBC travel awardee Marvin Naing
@NaingMD
from
@AABChemistry
who is working on elucidating the mechanism of action of antimicrobial peptides and their interaction with biologically relevant transition metals on 3/22 from 4:45-5:00 pm!
Celebrating 100 Years of Cytochromes this evening, Aug 25! (Oral)
Speakers: Kara L Bren, Bruce Bowler, Sean Elliott, Thomas Poulos, Kyle Lancaster, Fevzi Daldal, William Cramer
After mastering 14 bird calls,
@JudithSimcox
turned her attention to deciphering the 4000+ lipid signals in our blood. Along with her work with
@AISES
and
@SACNAS
, Judith studies the effects of cold stress on metabolism
@UWBiochem
. Watch more here:
#NAHM
Who else is excited for
#ACSSpring2023
in Indianapolis??? The Division of Biological Chemistry has great sessions scheduled for each day of the conference. Like, comment, and retweet with
#ACSDBC
if you're presenting in one!
A huge congratulations to the
#GRFP
Awardees, Honorable mentions, and all applicants! No matter the outcome, you committed time, worked hard, and learned a lot during an extremely hectic phase of your education, and you should feel proud for pulling that off.
DBC Graduate presenter awardee Sarah Krueger
@krueger_sarah1
from
@ZGroupIllinois
will be talking about her work on developing nucleic acid targeting agents as potential therapeutics for myotonic dystrophy type 1! Can't wait to hear her talk on 3/22 from 4:30-4:45 pm!!!
@bielleogy
I've run western blots where instead of transferring to a nitrocellulose membrane, I used the plastic sheet that the membranes came packaged in... signal was poor. I've since updated the protocol.
Don't miss the oral presentation by DBC Travel Award Winner
@XtalRom
Romila Mascarenhas who will talk about Vitamin B12 trafficking on Sunday, March 20 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM!
Congratulations to Ashley Ogorek of the
@Martell_Group
at
@UWMadisonChem
on receiving the Biological Chemistry Research Award from the DBC! Catch her talk on DNA-assisted proximity labeling at the DBC awards session from 2-5 PM on Wednesday!
#ACSDBC
#ACSSpring2023
Celebrate Catalysis! The first Abeles and Jencks Award winner Karen Allen-- award session
#ACSFall2022
is 2-6 PM 8/21/22, Marriot Marquis Great Lakes F.
#BIOL
Don't miss the new symposium for the Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes at the Fall ACS meeting! We'll honor the 2022 awardee, Prof. Karen Allen, for her pioneering work on the structure, function, catalytic mechanisms, and evolution of enzymes!
#ACSFall2023
was a blast! I had an amazing time seeing both new and familiar faces at the inaugural
#ACSDBC
mixer. Thanks again to
@GlazerChemLab
for organizing, and a huge congratulations to our fantastic student travel awardees!
Congratulations Carolyn Bertozzi! It is fantastic to see you and your trainees being recognized for your amazing contributions at the interface of chemistry and biology. Chemical Biologists around the globe are pumped up!
“Research at the interface of chemistry and biology has always been where I practice, and having a Nobel Prize in chemical biology is really great for the field,” said Bertozzi. “The field is not so old, but the impact is clear.”
@lmkdassama
has spent a lifetime learning about illness–both as a patient and researcher–but she has no plans to stop asking questions. Her lab at
@StanfordUChem
@stanfordimmuno
is paving the way for treatments for diseases from superbugs to sickle cell.
#Blackinchem
SO EXCITED for the talk by DBC travel award winner, Liting Zhai
@LitingZhai
@lmkdassama
#ACSFall2022
. Her talk on folding of bacterial sterol trafficking proteins has implication for discovering new drug targets in pathogens. 8/21, 2:15 - 2:30 PM, Marriott Marquis Great Lakes F!
Had a fantastic time chatting with this group today after a great session! Congrats again to
@CraigMCrews
on winning the inaugural BMS Award in enzyme chemistry and to all the excellent presenters! Thanks also to James Janc for fresh perspectives on his history with enzymology!
Meet our ACS Travel Award Winners! Emma Crnich is an undergrad
@LewisUniversity
and a member of Kissel and Havens Lab.
@KisslLab_LewisU
She is studying the interactions of copper and copper chelate compounds with amyloid beta peptide.
Find her poster on Aug 22nd from 7 PM-9 PM.
Congratulations to
@Vahooster
of
@Utahchem
for being named an
@AmerChemSociety
Fellow! This honors his commitment to excellence, both in his lab's research on natural product biosynthesis and in engagement with the broader chemistry community.
Such a blast at the
#ACSDBC
Awardee reception the other night! Another special congratulations to our grad student/postdoc travel awardees for
#ACSSpring2024
!
Squire Booker
@BookerMan_PSU
gave an amazing talk honoring the legacy of Marie Daly. We are thrilled to have co-sponsored the Symposium with the Analytical Division and CMA
@chemdiversity
. Learn more about Marie Daly, her story is inspiring! See articles
@SibrinaCollins
.
Congratulations to Weijie Guo of the
@LuLabUT
at
@UTAustin
on receiving the Biological Chemistry Research Award from the DBC! Catch his talk on GlycoRNA aptamers at the DBC awards session from 2-5 PM on Wednesday!
#ACSDBC
#ACSSpring2023
A huge thank-you to our outgoing 2023
#ACSDBC
Executive Committee members who put in huge amounts of time and effort to make our programming possible!
@jenheemstra
,
@chrstysc
, Kate Pletneva,
@KeaneLab
,
@jennifercpetter
, Anne-Frances Miller, and Rachel Austin!
Hear great science and be inspired at the Marie Daly symposium celebrating DIversity in BIological Chemistry
#ACSFall2022
on 8/22, Marriott Marquis Glessner House C from 8AM-12 noon. Speakers: Sibrina Collins, Amanda Bryant-Friendrich, Neel Shah, Blanton Tolbert, Squire Booker
Congratulations to Michael Yoon
@Yunium
from the
@ajodonoghue
lab at
@UCSDSkaggsSOP
for winning the DBC Graduate Presenter award. Michael will present about Molecular probe development of cytosolic cathepsin B on 3/22 at 5:00pm! Don't miss it!
Sachio Suzuki, winner of the DBC Graduate Presenter Award, will be presenting a talk about SLIPT-PM: A new versatile chemogenetic platform for controlling plasma membrane signaling on 3/22 from 5:45 - 6:00 PM. Make sure to stop by!
A very special thank you to our Program Chairs Mark Distefano and Kate Pletneva for pulling together an amazing line-up of sessions for the Fall 2021 National Meeting!
Meet the ACS Travel Award winners! Endri Karaj
@Endri__Karaj
is a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toledo, Ohio. My research interest lies in the interference between chemistry and biology.
His oral presentation is on Wed 8/25 from 5-5:15PM!
Congratulations to
@Vahooster
of
@Utahchem
for being named an
@AmerChemSociety
Fellow! This honors his commitment to excellence, both in his lab's research on natural product biosynthesis and in engagement with the broader chemistry community.
Meet our ACS Travel Award Winners!
Marissa Trujillo
@MarissaNT96
is a third year graduate student in the
@galliganlab
at the University of Arizona studying cellular metabolism.
Find her at her oral presentation on Tuesday at 8:30-8:45 AM EST.
Don’t forget that the nomination deadline for the 2023 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes is August 1st, 2022! The deadline will remain August 1st for all future nomination cycles. Please go here for more info:
Be sure to stop by Capitol III (The Westin Indianapolis) from 2-5 PM today to see the
#ACSDBC
National Awards Session! Recipients of the Biological Chemistry Research Award
@cdenningjannace
,
@WeijieGuoGuo
,
@DinhNguyenCB
, Ashley Ogorek, and Leona Nease will give talks.
Meet our ACS Travel Award winners! Jayani Christopher is a PhD student from Virginia Commonwealth University, Working on developing the macrolide antibiotic biosensor, MphR.
Find her at her poster on Sunday (8/22) from 7-9 pm!
Congratulations to Dinh Nguyen (
@DinhNguyenCB
) of the Mitchell and van der Donk labs at
@ChemistryUIUC
on receiving the Biological Chemistry Research Award from the DBC! Catch his talk on natural products at the DBC awards session from 2-5 PM on Wednesday!
#ACSDBC
#ACSSpring2023
Get your very own DBC sticker or mask!
From DBC chair: I hope to see many of you and strongly encourage you to go to the poster session to support our up-and-coming new generation of Biological Chemists.
Find me
@ssdaviducdavis1
to get a DBC sticker or facemask
Congrats to Sweta Anantharaman from the
@group_boon
at
@StonyBrookChem
on receiving an
#ACSDBC
Student Travel Award to
#ACSSpring2024
! Check out Sweta’s talk during the Graduate Research session and her poster during Sci-Mix!