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Vol. 20 / No. 5 / May 2021 FIRST CLASS Meet the inaugural ASBMB FELLOWS Planning a scientific conference? The ASBMB is here to help. LEARN MORE: asbmb.org/meetings-events/propose-event CONTENTS NEWS FEATURES PERSPECTIVES 2 32 44 EDITOR’S NOTE TARGETING 20,000 PROTEINS WINNERS OF THE ‘AHA MOMENTS’ Planning a scientific conference? ‘Share your aha moments!’ BY 2035 ESSAY CONTEST 44 Finding a common ancestor 4 38 45 Dreaming of Western blots MEMBER UPDATE EXPLORING UNDERAPPRECIATED 46 Beauty in brown The ASBMB is here to help. MOLECULES AND NEW CITIES 47 Fringe inspiration 8 47 A life filled with aha moments IN MEMORIAM 48 The first to know 49 The right experiment 9 49 Prepared mind leads to life-saving RETROSPECTIVE medical advice Remembering Curtiss, former JLR associate editor 50 Superhero science 51 Not quite out of the box 10 MEMBER NEWS 52 First class: Meet the inaugural FIVE QUESTIONS ASBMB fellows Alanna Mitsopoulos: “I could be happy doing other things” 20 LIPID NEWS Ceramides’ role in liver disease 10 16 JOURNAL NEWS 21 JLR names new junior associate editors 23 Study reveals experimental targets for lymphoma research 24 Researchers target cell membrane for cancer research 25 Parasitic secretions create 32 microenvironment for survival 44 26 From the journals LEARN MORE: 20 38 asbmb.org/meetings-events/propose-event 52 MAY 2021 ASBMB TODAY 1 EDITOR’S NOTE Vol. 20 / No. 5 / May 2021 THE MEMBER MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ‘Share your aha moments!’ THE MEMBER MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRYOFFICERS ANDCOUNCIL MOLECULAR MEMBERS BIOLOGY Suzanne Barbour Toni M. Antalis By Allison Frick President Joan Broderick OFFICERS CharlesCOUNCIL Craik MEMBERS Gerald Hart Gerald Hart MattSquire Gentry J. Booker Past President President SusannaVictoria Greer J. DeRose ’m not a scientist. My back- Fast-forward to January 2021, Wei Yang Blake Hill Jennifer DuBois Audrey Lamb Secretary Audrey Lamb ground is in broadcast jour- when ASBMB’s journals made Secretary JamesJames M. M. Ntambi Ntambi nalism. When I came to the the transition to gold open access. Joan Conaway Takita Felder Sumter I Toni M. Antalis Celia A. Shiffer Treasurer American Society for Biochemistry Papers published in the Journal of Treasurer KellyTakita Ten–Hagen Felder Sumter Kelly Ten-Hagen and Molecular Biology in 2015, Biological Chemistry, the Journal JoAnn Trejo EX-OFFICIOEX-OFFICIO MEMBERS MEMBERS ASBMB TODAY EDITORIAL it was from a local TV station, of Lipid Research, and Molecular ADVISORY BOARD RobertRobert S. HaltiwangerS. Haltiwanger where I covered high school sports & Cellular Proteomics were going RajiniASBMB Rao TODAY EDITORIAL CarlaCarla Koehler Koehler ChairADVISORY BOARD online and worked with reporters to be published immediately and be Co-chairs,Co-chairs, 2020/2021 2020 Annual Annual AnaRajini Maria Rao Barral MeetingMeeting Program Program Committee Committee and producers on related TV ele- permanently available for everyone Chair Cheryl Bailey Natasha Brooks Cheryl Bailey ments. Biochemistry and molecular to read, download, copy, distribute Chair, Education and Professional KellyFloyd Chacón “Ski” Chilton Chair, Education and Henrik Dohlman Development Committee Beronda Montgomery biology were a far cry from Friday and reuse. In preparation for the Professional Development Peter J. Kennelly DanielCommittee Raben BillBeronda Sullivan Montgomery night lights. I was nervous to enter change, our marketing and com- Chair, Meetings Committee Daniel Raben MelissaA. 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