The official magazine of the ASBMB, the Australian Biochemist keeps members up-to-date with relevant scientific and personal news in Australia and abroad. It provides information to members on upcoming events and conferences, Society awards and medals, competitions, the Great Expectations series, Special Technical Features, state activities, Special Interest Group reports and much more.
The magazine is published in April, August and December each year and is available as a high resolution PDF on this webpage. Publication Schedule for Australian Biochemist.
Please note that the Australian Biochemist is not a peer-reviewed publication.
For specific enquiries regarding the Australian Biochemist, please contact the Editors, Suresh Mathivanan and Tatiana Soares da Costa (editor@asbmb.org.au), or the Editorial Officer, Liana Friedman (liana.friedman@monash.edu).
Australian Biochemist Online
PDFs of the Australian Biochemist are available to view online.
Current Issue:
The April issue is now available to download as a PDF:
- High resolution PDF (21 MB)
- Low resolution PDF (5 MB)
APRIL 2018 Australian Biochemist Table of Contents
| PAGE | CONTENT |
| 4 | Editorial Committee |
| 5 | Competition: Odd One Out |
| 6 | Publications with Impact |
| Malaria Parasites Hijack Transferrin Receptor for Entry into Human Blood | |
| Transomics Reveals New Insights into How Insulin Choreographs Metabolic Traffic | |
| The ‘Small Talk’ of Exercise | |
| Active Downregulation of Contractile Adherens Junctions | |
| Tracking Synaptic Vesicles to Uncover Their Hidden Secrets at the Synapse | |
| 14 | ASBMB Education Feature |
| Four Steps to Solving the Student Misconception Problem | |
| What is the Role of Today’s University Lecturer? | |
| Embedding Authentic Practices to Enhance Student Employability | |
| 17 | Off the Beaten Track |
| A Tale of Three Cities | |
| 19 | SDS PAGE |
| The Ideal Mentoring Experience | |
| 20 | News and Views |
| The NHMRC Grant Overhaul: What Impact Will it Have on Early- and Mid-career Researchers? | |
| 22 | Great Expectations |
| A View from the Inside | |
| 26 | ASBMB 2018 Medallist and Awardee Profiles |
| 34 | Australia Day Honours for ASBMB Members |
| 36 | Cell Architecture: a New ASBMB Special Interest Group |
| 37 | RNA Network of Australasia: an ASBMB Special Interest Group |
| 39 | Sydney Protein Group Report |
| 40 | ASBMB: ‘Down’-under the Microscope |
| 43 | Science & Technology Australia: Science meets Parliament 2018 |
| 44 | FAOBMB Young Scientist Award 2018 |
| 45 | Leadership Changes for Science and Technology Australia |
| 46 | ASBMB Award Reports: ASBMB Boomerang Award and Bioplatforms Australia Award |
| 49 | Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria – Science Talent Search |
| 50 | Intellectual Property |
| IP Considerations in the Early Stages of Drug Development | |
| 52 | In Memoriam: Tony Linnane |
| 55 | FAOBMB Annual Conference in Kobe, Japan |
| 58 | Our Sustaining Members |
| 63 | Forthcoming Meetings |
| 64 | ASBMB Council Members |
| 65 | Directory |
Golden Jubilee Issue:
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the ASBMB, an historical Golden Jubilee issue of the Australian Biochemist was published in August 2005. This commemorative issue highlights the achievements of the Society over the past 50 years in the context of the rapid advances in biochemistry and molecular biology. To access this freely available Golden Jubilee issue, click here.