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).
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August 2018 Australian Biochemist Table of Contents
| PAGE | CONTENT |
| 4 | Editorial Committee |
| 6 | Publications with Impact |
| Shining a Light on mtDNA Escape | |
| A Structural Snapshot of Respiratory Complex II Assembly | |
| Folding Vector – a New Role for the Autotransporter β-barrel Domain | |
| How Ligand Binds to the Type 1 Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptor | |
| Fighting Fungal Infections with Membrane-busting Defensins | |
| 13 | ASBMB Education Feature |
| Just Another Manic Monday? | |
| Newly Developed Resources: Basic Pipette Skills – an Introduction to Micropipette Use | |
| Are Your Students Vulnerable to Contract Cheating? | |
| Struggles Faced by International Students in Australia | |
| Education-related Activities at ComBio2018 | |
| 18 | In Memoriam: Daphne Elliott |
| 20 | SDS PAGE |
| To Tweet or not to Tweet: the Power of Social Media in Academia | |
| 21 | Off the Beaten Track |
| From Lab Bench to Lectern: an Unwitting Journey | |
| 23 | Queen’s Birthday Honours for ASBMB Members |
| 24 | New Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science |
| 25 | Forthcoming Meetings |
| 26 | Competition: Puzzlebox |
| 27 | ComBio2018 International Plenary Speaker Profiles |
| 31 | Intellectual Property |
| Diagnostic Patents: Health Report | |
| 34 | ASBMB Award Report: Eppendorf Edman Award |
| 35 | Australia Wins 26th IUBMB Congress and 17th FAOBMB Congress Bid for 2024 |
| 36 | A Meeting of Young Scientists in the Harmonious City of Seoul |
| 37 | 24th IUBMB-15th FAOBMB Congress 2018 |
| 40 | 24th Ordinary General Assembly of the IUBMB |
| 43 | Queensland Protein Group: an ASBMB Special Interest Group |
| 44 | ASBMB Awards 2019 – Applications Now Open |
| 46 | ASBMB AGM 2018 |
| 46 | ASBMB Election of Council 2019 |
| 47 | Our Sustaining Members |
| 54 | ASBMB Council |
| 55 | 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.