ASBMB 2027 Annual Meeting
ASBMB 2027 Annual Meeting takes place on 3–6 April 2027 at Hynes Convention Center, Boston. It is organised by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), and B2DB lists 205 speakers and 93 sessions announced so far.
The 2027 ASBMB Annual Meeting, organised by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, takes place April 3–6, 2027 at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, MA. The program brings together keynote and plenary talks, symposia, cross-disciplinary sessions, workshops, career development programming and interest group gatherings, alongside an exhibition of posters, services and products. The meeting is co-chaired by W. Mike Henne and Amy E. Palmer. This capture was made before the event; the program may still change.
Key facts
| Dates | 3–6 April 2027 (upcoming) |
|---|---|
| Venue | Hynes Convention Center, Boston, United States of America |
| Organiser | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) |
| Series | ASBMB Annual Meeting |
| Speakers | 205 |
| Sessions | 93 |
| Stages | Health and disease, Fundamental and molecular insights into life, Applications and technologies, Education and professional development, Education, Technical skills and new technology, Career development |
| Official site | asbmb.org/annual-meeting/program |
Keynote speakers
- Peter S. Kim Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University; Former president of Merck Research Laboratories, Stanford University
Speakers (205)
Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.
- James Shorter University of Pennsylvania
- Amit Bhatt Harvard University
- Amy Springer University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Anna Kashina University of Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Morehouse University of California, Irvine
- Benjamin Weaver University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Daniel Jarosz Stanford University
- Darren Boehning Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
- David Giedroc Indiana University
- David Libich University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Gerhard Liebisch University Hospital Regensburg
- Isaac Harris University of Rochester Medical Center
- Jimmy Ly Harvard University
- Junjie Guo Yale University
- Karla Neugebauer Yale University
- Kim Ekroos Lipidomics Consulting Ltd.
- Laura de Lorenzo Barrios University of New Mexico School of Medicine
- Liwu Li Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Liza Roger Arizona State University
- Lucas Sullivan Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Martha Cyert Stanford University
- Mick Petris University of Missouri
- Natalie Saini Medical University of South Carolina
- Pengda Liu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Rong Huang Purdue University
- Scott Horowitz University of Denver
- Wenjian Gan Case Western Reserve University
- Xiaoyong Yang Yale University School of Medicine
- Yadira Soto-Feliciano Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Yingming Zhao University of Chicago
- Kalli Kappel University of California, Los Angeles
- Mingxia Gu University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Zev Gartner University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Alexandra Kuzmishin Nagy Earlham College
- Andrew Goodman Yale School of Medicine
- Anirban Banerjee National Institutes of Health
- Anita Nag University of South Carolina Upstate
- Brooke Gardner University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bryan Dickinson University of Chicago
- Caryn Outten University of South Carolina
- Cassidy Terrell University of Minnesota Rochester
- Chris Burd Yale School of Medicine
- Christina Woo Harvard University
- Cynthia Fuhrmann UMass Chan Medical School
- Daniel Dries Chapman University
- Dustin Maly University of Washington
- Hannah Richter University of Colorado Colorado Springs
- Hening Lin University of Chicago
- James Hurley University of California, Berkeley
- Janet Iwasa University of Utah
- Jeremy Baskin Cornell University
- Juanita Limas Eli Lilly and Company
- Jun Wu University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Katherine Meluni SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Kiesha Wilson University of South Carolina School of Medicine
- Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed Hope College
- L. Ashley Cowart Virginia Commonwealth University
- Laura Lackner Northwestern University
- Leanne Duke Florida State University College of Medicine
- Liz Nolan Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Maria Ioannou University of Alberta
- Masood Sepehrimanesh Louisiana Tech University
- Michael Wolyniak Hampden-Sydney College
- Natalie Niemi Washington University in St. Louis
- Oleh Khalimonchuk University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Peter Chien University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Peter Turnbaugh University of California, San Francisco
- Pulin Li Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; MIT
- Roberto Zoncu University of California, Berkeley
- Roy Parker University of Colorado Boulder
- Silvi Rouskin Harvard Medical School
- Susan Holechek Arizona State University
- Tim Rhoads University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Tristan Bepler New York Structural Biology Center; OpenProtein.AI
- Xianlin Han University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Yass Kobayashi University of Georgia School of Medicine
- YuhMin Chook University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Elizabeth Kellogg St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Aakriti Jain University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Ahmed Badran Scripps Research Institute
- Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon HHMI Janelia Research Campus
- Alessandro Ori Genentech Inc.
- Alexander Buell Technical University of Denmark
- Alkeiver Cannon Sanofi
- Amie Boal Pennsylvania State University
- Anastasia Henry Denali Therapeutics
- Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco
- Angelika Harbauer Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence
- Anton Bennett Yale University
- Aryeh Warmflash Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Balyn Zaro University of California, San Francisco
- Baris Bingol Genentech Inc.
- Barry Zee Cell Signaling Technology Inc.
- Benjamin Porebski Sortera Bio/LMB
- Brian Lewis UMass Chan Medical School
- Brian Liau Harvard University
- Can Senkal Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
- Casper Hoogenraad Genentech Inc.
- Chris Obara University of California, San Diego
- Christin Monroe Landmark College
- Clive Svendsen Cedars–Sinai
- Dan Huh University of Pennsylvania
- Danielle Schmitt University of California, Los Angeles
- Danny Incarnato University of Groningen
- David Katzmann Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
- Debbie Marks Harvard University
- Devan Shah RNAv8 Bio
- Dominique Brossard University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Doug Johnson Biogen Inc.
- Ekataerina Vinogradova Rockefeller University
- Elaine Hamm Cadenza Bio
- Elisa Franco University of California, Los Angeles
- Elisabeth Marnik MDI Biological Laboratory
- Emily Que University of Texas at Austin
- Florian Fröhlich University of Osnabruck
- Florian Wilfing MPI Frankfurt
- Frank Noe MSR/FU Berlin
- George Khelashvili Weill Cornell Medicine
- Gia Voeltz University of Colorado Boulder
- Gilbert Di Paolo Roche
- Giovanni D'Angelo Swiss Federal Technology Institute
- Hannele Ruohola-Baker University of Washington
- Harry McNamarra Yale University
- Haydee Lara
- Heeseon An Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Hilla Weidberg University of British Columbia
- Iqbal Hamza University of Maryland
- James Imlay University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Jason Bodily LSU Health Shreveport
- Jeff Woodruff University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Jerelle Joseph Princeton University
- Jingwei Cai Genentech Inc.
- Joan Broderick Texas A&M University
- Joseph Yesselman University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Juan Bonafacino National Institutes of Health
- Julia Laskin Purdue University
- Kallol Gupta Yale Nanobiology Institute
- Kat Milligan-McClellan University of Connecticut
- Katharina Reglinski University of Jena
- Kenneth Wang Atlasxomics Inc.
- Keren Lasker Scripps Research Institute
- Laura Keller Genentech Inc.
- Lauren Celano Propel Careers
- Lauren Hagler Texas A&M University
- Lea Michel Rochester Institute of Technology
- Libusha Kelly Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Liesbeth Veenhoff University of Groningen
- Lindsay Pino Talus Bio
- Lingyin Li Stanford University; Arc Institute
- Magdalena Zernika-Goetz California Institute of Technology
- Mak Saito Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Martin Graef Cornell University
- Matt Kutys Allen Institute
- Matthew Lew Washington University in St. Louis
- Megan Ken Scripps Research Institute
- Michael Skowyra University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Mijo Simunovi Columbia University
- Mike Rout Rockefeller University
- Mikko Taipale University of Toronto
- Mircea Teodorescu University of California, Santa Cruz
- Nassos Typas Molecular Systems Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- Pamela Chang Cornell University
- Paolo Arosio ETH Zurich
- Peter S. Kim Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University; Former president of Merck Research Laboratories, Stanford University
- Philip Romero Duke University
- Pieter Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
- Pietro De Camilli Yale University
- Raphael Townshend Atomic AI
- Rebecca Donegan Barnard College
- Rob Oslund Indupro
- Ruixian Gao University of Illinois Chicago
- Ryan Julian University of California, Riverside
- Sadiya Parveen-Nesson LSU Health Shreveport
- Sarah Cohen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Sarah Jantzi University of Georgia Plasma Chemistry Lab
- Sarah Slavoff Yale University
- Scott Obach Pfizer Inc.
- Shabnam Hematian Virginia Tech
- Shaohe Wang HHMI Janelia Research Campus
- Shuibing Chen Weill Cornell Medicine
- Siegfried Musser Texas A&M University
- Snehal Chaudhari University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Spencer Freeman The Hospital for Sick Children
- Stephanie Schmieder Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard University
- Stephen Michnick University of Montreal
- Susan Shao Harvard University
- Sylvia Santos Francis Crick Institute
- Tatjana Trcek Johns Hopkins University
- Thomas Schwartz Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tony Mustoe Baylor College of Medicine
- Toshiro Sato Keio University
- Wenjing Wang University of Michigan
- Xiao Wang Broad Institute; MIT
- Xiao-Wei Chen State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology
- Ya-Cheng Liao Columbia University
- Yeongho Kim Yale School of Medicine
- Yousuf Khan Stanford University
- Boris Striepen University of Pennsylvania
- Edward Chouchani Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; HHMI
- Heidi Hamm Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- John Moult University of Maryland
- Laura Dassama Stanford University
- Maha Zewail-Foote Southwestern University
- Phil Ortiz State University of New York
- Teresita Padilla-Benavides Wesleyan University
Most represented companies
- Harvard University — 6 speakers
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — 6 speakers
- Yale University — 6 speakers
- Genentech Inc. — 5 speakers
- Stanford University — 5 speakers
- University of Pennsylvania — 4 speakers
- Cornell University — 3 speakers
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 3 speakers
- Scripps Research Institute — 3 speakers
- Texas A&M University — 3 speakers
Agenda (93 sessions)
Day 1 — Saturday 3 April 2027
- Glycobiology redefined: From structure to systems with AI — Xiaoyong Yang
- Molecular mechanisms of host–pathogen conflict across life — Benjamin Morehouse
- Molecular mechanisms of transition metal transport and metal trafficking — David Giedroc, Mick Petris
- Predict. Perturb. Discover: Bridging computational and mechanistic epigenomics — Amit Bhatt, Yadira Soto-Feliciano
- Beyond annotations: Discovery, function and regulation of alternative translation initiation — Jimmy Ly, Junjie Guo
- Connecting institutions, expanding opportunities: Collaborative CURE models to transform research and teaching — Amy Springer, Laura de Lorenzo Barrios
- Convergence of protein S-acylation and Ca2+ signaling in cellular regulation and disease — Darren Boehning, Martha Cyert
- The chemical biology of climate adaptation: from coral reefs and algae to human health — Karla Neugebauer, Liza Roger
- Beyond lipid composition: How quantitative lipidomics is transforming membrane biology symposium — Gerhard Liebisch, Kim Ekroos
- Crosstalk of proteomic and metabolic modifications during immune inflammaging and intervention — Liwu Li, Yingming Zhao
- At the interface of proteostasis and RNA regulation and function — James Shorter, Scott Horowitz
- Thiol metabolism in health and disease — Isaac Harris, Lucas Sullivan
- Protein post-translational modifications at the interface of immunity and metabolism — Pengda Liu, Wenjian Gan
- Protein termini as the emerging hub of biological regulation — Anna Kashina, Rong Huang
- Cellular plasticity in development and disease — Benjamin Weaver, Daniel Jarosz
- Molecular choreography from DNA damage to mutational signature — David Libich, Natalie Saini
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- Computational and experimental approaches to study the role of the human microbiome in pharmacology Health and disease — Andrew Goodman, Peter Turnbaugh
- Computational approaches Health and disease — Libusha Kelly, Pieter Dorrestein, Scott Obach
- Condensate structure across scales Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Florian Wilfing, Keren Lasker, Matthew Lew
- Coordination chemistry to tackle challenges in human health, energy and the environment Applications and technologies — Caryn Outten, Liz Nolan
- Cryptic proteins and modifications Applications and technologies — Christina Woo, Barry Zee, Ryan Julian, Sarah Slavoff
- Dissecting the interactions of medication and the human gut microbiota — Nassos Typas
- Diverse paths to industry Education and professional development — Kiesha Wilson, Alkeiver Cannon, Haydee Lara, Kenneth Wang
- Emerging investigator seminar — Katherine Meluni, Leanne Duke
- Emerging technologies Health and disease — Jun Wu, Dan Huh, Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Mircea Teodorescu
- Engineering broadly protective vaccines and antibodies against infectious disease — Peter S. Kim
- Expanding biochemistry with AI-driven molecular design Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Elizabeth Kellogg, Debbie Marks, Frank Noe
- Expanding biochemistry with AI-driven molecular design — Focus on data generation at scale Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Benjamin Porebski, Philip Romero
- Expanding research opportunities for students: Scalable research programs from high school through graduate education Education — Susan Holechek
- Experimental approaches Health and disease — Andrew Goodman, Peter Turnbaugh, Jingwei Cai, Snehal Chaudhari
- From data to discovery: Modern research skills that drive scientific careers Education and professional development — Masood Sepehrimanesh
- How to run a thriving PUI research lab — Alexandra Kuzmishin Nagy, Anita Nag
- Illuminating RNA structure and dynamics Applications and technologies — Danny Incarnato, Megan Ken, Yousuf Khan
- Lipidomics basics II Technical skills and new technology — Xianlin Han
- Lipids in action Health and disease — Chris Burd, L. Ashley Cowart
- Lipids on the move Health and disease — Florian Fröhlich, Stephanie Schmieder, Yeongho Kim
- Maximizing access and impact in science Education and professional development — Dominique Brossard, Elisabeth Marnik, Kat Milligan-McClellan, Lea Michel
- Metal homeostasis and microbes Applications and technologies — David Giedroc, Caryn Outten, James Imlay, Rebecca Donegan
- Metal trafficking and dynamics Applications and technologies — Mick Petris, Liz Nolan, Iqbal Hamza, Mak Saito
- Metalloenzymology Applications and technologies — Amie Boal, Emily Que, Joan Broderick, Shabnam Hematian
- Multifaceted mitochondria — Laura Lackner, Oleh Khalimonchuk
- Organelle crosstalk in neurodegeneration Health and disease — Gia Voeltz, Pietro De Camilli, Sarah Cohen
- Organelle dynamics, composition and ultrastructure Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Baris Bingol, Chris Obara, Susan Shao
- Organelle-mediated control of lipid metabolism in neurodegeneration Health and disease — James Hurley, Maria Ioannou, Gilbert Di Paolo
- Organelle quality control Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Natalie Niemi, Roberto Zoncu
- Organelle quality control Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Natalie Niemi, Aakriti Jain, Alessandro Ori, Heeseon An
- Organelle signaling and crosstalk Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Roberto Zoncu, Anastasia Henry, Danielle Schmitt, Spencer Freeman
- Organelle transport in neurodegeneration Health and disease — Angelika Harbauer, Casper Hoogenraad, Juan Bonafacino, Ya-Cheng Liao
- Organoids and cell replacement therapy Health and disease — Mingxia Gu, Clive Svendsen, Shuibing Chen, Toshiro Sato
- Organoids in physiology and disease
- Organoids in physiology and disease Applications and technologies — Zev Gartner, Pulin Li
- Physics of lipids and membranes Health and disease — David Katzmann, Giovanni D'Angelo, Julia Laskin, Kallol Gupta
- Preparing for the future/Scientists of tomorrow Education and professional development — Anton Bennett, Brian Lewis, Elaine Hamm, Sarah Jantzi
- Preparing undergraduates for the careers of the future: A dialogue with students and mentors Education — Michael Wolyniak
- Professional and personal development (soft skills) Education and professional development — Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed, Jason Bodily, Sadiya Parveen-Nesson
- Professional development across career stages Education and professional development — Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed, Masood Sepehrimanesh
- Protein import/export Fundamental and molecular insights into life — YuhMin Chook
- Protein neighborhoods Applications and technologies — Dustin Maly, Brian Liau, Lindsay Pino, Mikko Taipale
- ProteinBlender: A new tool for molecular animation Technical skills and new technology — Janet Iwasa
- Recharge, renew, reinvent: Planning and implementing a successful sabbatical Career development
- Remodeling the cell with AAA-ATPases — Brooke Gardner, Peter Chien
- RNA as a driver of condesnate formation and properties Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Roy Parker, Elisa Franco, Tatjana Trcek
- RNA structure in the cell: function, regulation and disease Applications and technologies — Kalli Kappel, Devan Shah, Lauren Hagler
- Spatial biology Applications and technologies — Jeremy Baskin, Rob Oslund, Ruixian Gao, Xiao Wang
- Stem cell based embryo models Health and disease — Aryeh Warmflash, Magdalena Zernika-Goetz, Mijo Simunovi
- Stem cells Health and disease — Mingxia Gu, Jun Wu
- Synthetic biology Applications and technologies — Bryan Dickinson, Ahmed Badran, Wenjing Wang
- Synthetic biology, imaging and engineering tools to improve organoid models of health and disease Applications and technologies — Zev Gartner, Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon, Harry McNamarra
- The future of RNA structure and RNA structure prediction Applications and technologies — Kalli Kappel, Silvi Rouskin
- The interface between mechanics, signaling and the ECM in organoid morphogenesis Applications and technologies — Pulin Li, Matt Kutys, Shaohe Wang, Sylvia Santos
- The role of new technology in career advancement Education and professional development — Christin Monroe, Lauren Celano
- Toward predictive models of RNA structure Applications and technologies — Silvi Rouskin, Joseph Yesselman, Raphael Townshend, Tony Mustoe
- Transport across the nuclear pore complex and the peroxisome importer Fundamental and molecular insights into life — YuhMin Chook, Hilla Weidberg, Katharina Reglinski, Siegfried Musser
- What would alternative grading look like in MY course? Education — Daniel Dries
- You have omics-scale data. Now what? Technical skills and new technology
- 21st century applications of proteomics Applications and technologies — Christina Woo, Dustin Maly
- You're not undersold. Your resume is — and it only has 6 seconds to say so Career development — Juanita Limas
- Adapting for a changing landscape Education and professional development — Kiesha Wilson, Tim Rhoads, Yass Kobayashi
- Advancing career-related mentorship in uncertain times Career development — Cynthia Fuhrmann
- AI and the future of biomolecular design — Tristan Bepler
- AI-guided protein design Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Tristan Bepler
- Anchors, switches and signals: The myriad chemistry and biology of protein lipid modification — Anirban Banerjee, Hening Lin
- Architectures of the nuclear pore complex and the peroxisome importer Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Michael Skowyra, Mike Rout, Stephen Michnick, Thomas Schwartz
- Becoming faculty at a primarily undergraduate institution Career development — Hannah Richter
- Beyond oil and water — Complexity of biomolecular condensates Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Roy Parker
- Beyond the biochemistry curriculum: Curricular and pedagogical strategies for weaving medicinal plants, ethnobotany, physiology, medical humanities, pop culture and more into biochemistry curricula Education — Cassidy Terrell
- Biogenesis and quality control of the nuclear pore complex and the peroxisome importer Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Brooke Gardner, Andrej Sali, Liesbeth Veenhoff
- Cell biology of lipids Health and disease — Can Senkal, George Khelashvili, Martin Graef, Xiao-Wei Chen
- Cell biology of neurodegeneration Health and disease — James Hurley, Maria Ioannou
- Chemical probes in disease Applications and technologies — Doug Johnson, Lingyin Li, Pamela Chang
- Chemical toolbox Applications and technologies — Bryan Dickinson, Jeremy Baskin
- Chemoproteomic frontiers Applications and technologies — Balyn Zaro, Ekataerina Vinogradova, Laura Keller
- Composition and biophysical properties of condensates Fundamental and molecular insights into life — Alexander Buell, Jeff Woodruff, Jerelle Joseph, Paolo Arosio
Organisers, sponsors and partners
Organiser (1)
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
Exhibitors (17)
National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology · American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) · Thermo Fisher · Spectrum Chemical Mfg Corp · Mainline Scientific LLC · RCSB Protein Data Bank · 3D Molecular Designs · HELIX BIOSTRUCTURES · NIH-funded APS Beamlines · BMG LABTECH · Nuclera · St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · MedChemExpress · PCR Biosystems · Worthington Biochemical Corporation · University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Science · Quantum-Si
Source: the published agenda. See how B2DB compiles its records.