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Phenotype MicroArrays at Ii http://info.biolog.com/ASBMB.html ••••• • • • • •• • • BiOLOG CONTENTS NEWS FEATURES PERSPECTIVES 2 18 32 EDITOR’S NOTE SCIENTISTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA MINORITY AFFAIRS Being social 18 Keeping it real DREAM girl 23 Sharing science creatively 24 Navigating the murky waters 3 of social media 35 NEWS FROM THE HILL 26 Life on social media PUBLIC AFFAIRS Recess is over and there’s still lots to do in and out of academia Creating a robust research enterprise 28 Promote your paper in four easy steps 4 30 Mean girls with Ph.D.s 36 MEMBER UPDATE 18 ESSAY Scientists Some thoughts on lab communication 6 and science RETROSPECTIVE communicators describe the 38 E. C. Slater (1917 — 2016) highs and lows of CAREER INSIGHTS engaging on social media. Pointers for those curious about careers 9 in industry NEWS A holistic view of ovarian cancer 40 30 TRANSITIONS 10 e smallest bundle and the biggest transition JOURNAL NEWS 10 A new roundup of biolms 11 Special subunit meets energy demands 42 for spermatogenesis OPEN CHANNELS 12 Isomerases determine green odor of plants 13 Sphingolipids and retinal degeneration 42 14 Sustaining seabass 15 Knockout mouse reveals links between bile acids and metabolic disorders 16 Brady wins Tabor award for transition metal signaling work 11 40 TRANSITION STATES SEPTEMBER 2016 ASBMB TODAY 1 EDITOR’S NOTE THE MEMBER MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Being social OFFICERS COUNCIL MEMBERS have admired Carolyn Bertozzi’s dierent from the likes of me. But her Natalie Ahn Squire J. Booker President Victoria J. DeRose work for more than a decade. tweet and subsequent ones proved me Wayne Fairbrother. When I used to work at a now- wrong. Steven McKnight Karen G. Fleming I Past President Rachel Green defunct magazine that reported In my prole of her in this issue Jennifer DuBois Susan Marqusee advances in analytical chemistry, of ASBMB Today, Bertozzi, who is Secretary Jared Rutter Bertozzi’s work developing mass spec- one of our members, tells us why she Celia A. Shier Toni M. Antalis Michael Summers trometric methods to analyze complex thinks it’s important that she use Twit- Treasurer sugars at the University of California, ter to let people get to know her a bit ASBMB TODAY EDITORIAL Berkeley, caught my attention. (Ber- better. EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS ADVISORY BOARD tozzi is now at Stanford University.) e prole is part of a special Natalie Ahn Charles Brenner Steven McKnight Chair Her papers were easy to understand section in this issue on using social Co-chairs, 2017 Annual Michael Bradley and follow, even for someone like me media for science. Just as it did to Meeting Program Floyd “Ski” Chilton who is not an expert in mass spec- journalism, social media is changing Committee Cristy Gelling trometry or glycobiology. And as I science. It’s been said before, but it Cheryl Bailey Peter J. Kennelly Chair, Education and Rajini Rao read more papers, the elegance and bears repeating: If you want to keep Professional Development Yolanda Sanchez depth of the described experiments your pulse on a broad swath of sci- Committee Shiladitya Sengupta Carol Shoulders increased my admiration for her and ence, social media is a good way to Daniel Raben Chair, Meetings Committee her group. go. at’s exactly what both David ASBMB TODAY Takita Felder Sumter During this time, social media Bachinsky and Rick Page talk about in Chair, Minority Aairs Angela Hopp became a thing. By 2012, a journalist our section on social media. Committee Executive Editor, [email protected] had to have a social media presence to Bethany Brookshire, also known omas Baldwin Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay be relevant. So I decided to join Twit- as Scicurious, discusses how to hover Chair, Public Outreach Managing Editor, Committee ter. (I already was using Facebook for over that blurry line between personal [email protected] Wesley Sundquist John Arnst my personal life and doing my part for and professional on social media. Chair, Public Aairs Science Writer, the universe’s collection of cat photos.) ASBMB Today’s executive editor, Advisory Committee [email protected] Twitter allowed for something that Angela Hopp, gives tips on how to Amnon Kohen Valery Masterson Facebook didn’t: It was possible to promote your work on social media. Chair, Publications Designer, Committee [email protected] read perspectives dierent from my Allison Frick, the American Society Lila M. Gierasch Ciarán Finn own and from those of my friends. for Biochemistry and Molecular Biol- Editor-in-chief, JBC Web Editor, [email protected] Twitter also let me follow people and ogy’s digital media specialist, oers a A. L. Burlingame Allison Frick organizations that I was interested in, handy guide on how to engage in best Editor, MCP Media Specialist, helping me to forge connections that practices on Facebook, Twitter and Edward A. Dennis [email protected] Editor-in-chief, JLR Barbara Gordon would otherwise be hard to make. LinkedIn. William L. Smith Executive Director, So imagine my thrill to discover And nally, acknowledging that Editor-in-chief, JLR [email protected] Bertozzi on Twitter a few years ago with the great power of social media when someone retweeted Bertozzi’s comes great responsibility, we have lament that she couldn’t get on a plane a piece by Marney White, who got For information on advertising, contact Pharmaceutical from the U.S. to Canada because she ripped to shreds on Facebook. Media Inc. at 212-904-0374 or [email protected]. had left her passport at home. You’ll note in the masthead that I was overjoyed and shocked. I now am the magazine’s managing Overjoyed because I now could fol- editor. I look forward to hearing from low a scientist I admired on Twit- you. You can email me at www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday ter. Shocked because Bertozzi was [email protected]. Better yet, PRINT ISSN 2372-0409 admitting to making such a mun- nd the ASBMB community on Articles published in ASBMB Today reect solely the authors’ views and not the ocial positions of dane mistake. With her high-prole Facebook or Twitter (@ASBMB) and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or the institutions with which the authors accomplishments, I held her in my join us in talking about science and are aliated. Mentions of products or services are mind as someone who had a secret the awesome people who do it. not endorsements. magic touch in science that made her Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay ©2016 ASBMB 2 ASBMB TODAY SEPTEMBER 2016 NEWS FROM THE HILL Recess is over and there’s still lots to do By Benjamin Corb embers of Congress return a $1 billion increase, it is clear that to invest. Congressional inaction liter- from their August recess the bipartisan, bicameral support exists ally can withhold from the research M week of Sept. 6 and will be to increase needed investments in community millions, if not billions, in Washington, D.C., for four weeks research at the NIH. Unfortunately, of dollars. Every day that Congress before heading back to their home time is running out for these propos- delays passage of the FY17 spend- districts for the election season. e als to navigate the legislative process, ing bills, researchers don’t receive most important thing Congress must making the likelihood of a continuing the funding needed to help improve do during those four weeks is fund resolution a near-certain outcome. the quality of life and well-being of the federal government beyond the A continuing resolution, which Americans. current scal year, which ends Sept. funds the federal government at the e scuttlebutt on Capitol Hill is 30. Under normal circumstances, previous year’s approved funding that Congress will pass a short-term Congress would have passed appro- level, ensures that, at a minimum, the continuing resolution to fund the priations bills setting funding for the government has funds in place to con- government through the November next scal year by now. But these are tinue with the status quo and avoids election. A short-term continuing res- not normal circumstances. Not setting a government shutdown. However, funding levels for scal year 2017 has continuing resolutions are generally olution is common during an election consequences to our research commu- bad for the scientic community. year when the congressional calendars nity, especially for those investigators First, continuing resolutions, which are limited due to campaign sea- funded by the National Institutes of can last anywhere from two weeks son. But the community of research Health. to a full year, freeze funding levels at advocates must continue to pressure In early June, the Senate Appropri- agencies and leave them unable to Congress to take the necessary action ations Committee approved a funding plan properly for their next year. e to make increases in science funding proposal that would increase NIH NIH routinely has held down paylines not just bipartisan proposals but also funding for FY17 to $37 billion, a $2 while under a continuing resolution bipartisan accomplishments.