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 August issue is now available to download as a PDF:
- High resolution PDF (~13 MB)
- Low resolution PDF (~4 MB)
NOTE: individual PDFs of the articles are also available here.
August 2017 Australian Biochemist Table of Contents
| PAGE | CONTENT |
| 2 | New Competition |
| 3 | Editorial – Suresh Mathivanan and Tatiana Soares da Costa |
| 4 | Australian Biochemist Editorial Committee Members |
| 5 | Publications with Impact |
| Why is Mitochondrial Complex I So Big and So Complex? – Mike Ryan | |
| 6 | SDS PAGE |
| Selling Your Research in Less Than 3 Minutes – Tatiana Soares da Costa | |
| 7 | ASBMB Education Feature |
| Welcome – Susan Rowland and Nirma Samarawickrema | |
| A Discussion with a Biochemistry Education Student From a Research Intensive University – Heather Verkade | |
| It’s Not Just About the Answers: Laboratory Demonstrators, Questions, and the Pedagogy of Inquiry Learning – Angela Wenjing Hu | |
| Education at ComBio2017 – Maurizio Costabile and Amber Willems-Jones | |
| ‘Physical’ Biochemistry, But Not as You’ve Ever Seen it Before… – Terry (Tyrosine) Mulhern | |
| 10 | ComBio2017 International Plenary Speaker Profiles |
| 13 | Off the Beaten Track |
| Publishing Excellent Science – Brietta Pike | |
| 15 | Great Expectations |
| An Unexpected Journey– Colin Jackson | |
| 17 | ASBMB Awards 2018 |
| 19 | Yeast SIG Profile |
| 21 | Queen’s Birthday Honours for ASBMB Members |
| 23 | Intellectual Property |
| Patent Myth Busting – Sarah Hennebry | |
| 25 | ASBMB Members Elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science |
| 25 | Election of Council 2018 |
| 26 | Eppendorf Edman Award Report – Natalie Spillman |
| 27 | Sciences meets Parliament 2017 Report – Marc Kvansakul and Erinna Lee |
| 28 | Our Sustaining Members |
| 35 | Forthcoming Meetings |
| 35 | Annual General Meeting 2017 |
| 36 | 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.