The 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, high impact research publications, education, Society awards and medals, news and views, competitions, member profiles, state activities, Special Interest Groups and more.
The magazine is published in April, August and December each year and is available in PDF on this webpage. Publication Schedule for the Australian Biochemist.
For specific enquiries regarding the Australian Biochemist, please contact the Editor, Tatiana Soares da Costa (editor@asbmb.org.au), or the Editorial Officer, Liana Friedman (liana.friedman@monash.edu).
Australian Biochemist Online
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Current Issue: August 2020
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Table of Contents
| 3 | Editorial Committee |
| 4 | From the President |
| 6 | ASBMB 2020 Meeting: Education Symposium and Research Symposium |
| 9 | Australian Biochemistry Lunchtime Seminar Series |
| 10 | Special Education Feature: Focus on Remote Teaching |
| Editorial: COVID-19 Hits Our Classes! | |
| Student Perspectives | |
| Apart, Yet Together: COVID-19 Chat Camaraderie | |
| Enhancing Engagement by Building Relationships and a Sense of Community in an Online Biochemistry Course | |
| Re-establishing a Sense of Community Online: Lessons Learnt from the Sudden Migration Online During COVID-19 Restrictions | |
| Maintaining the Chemistry Foundations for Our Future Biochemists: Our COVID-19-driven Curriculum Transformation | |
| Engaging Biochemistry Students through Technology, Case Studies and Individualised Assignments | |
| From Desk to Dining Room: My Transition to Lecturing in the Time of Pandemic | |
| Engaging the Online Biochemistry Student in Asynchronous, Flexible Learning Activities | |
| The Challenge of Asynchronous Problem-based Learning Online | |
| The Fast and the Curious: Taking a Capstone Unit Online in Record Time | |
| Effectively Teaching Biochemistry Practicals via Simulations in the Absence of Face-to-face Instruction | |
| CoVideo-19: Moving a Biochemistry Laboratory Online | |
| All You Need are Grades. Grades are All You Need… | |
| 32 | Publications with Impact |
| Life in the Lysosome: Using and Abusing the Host | |
| A Complex Consortium of Complex I Construction | |
| The First Cut is the Deepest | |
| Flow Directs Form: a Novel Role for the Cadherin FAT4 in Shaping the Lymphatic Vasculature | |
| Failure of a DNA-protective Clamp is the Cause of Fanconi Anaemia | |
| 40 | SDS PAGE |
| Remaining FOCUSed at Home | |
| Making Peace with Uncertainty… and Getting Your PhD Done, Too | |
| 43 | Competition: COVID-19 |
| 44 | Off the Beaten Track |
| Programming, Pythons and Policy | |
| 47 | Nominations for 2021 ASBMB Awards and Medals |
| 50 | Great Expectations |
| Happiness in My DNA | |
| 54 | Cell Architecture: an ASBMB Special Interest Group |
| 55 | Intellectual Property |
| What the Current Pandemic Teaches Us About the Value of an Intellectual Property System | |
| 58 | Honours for ASBMB Members |
| 59 | Election of Council 2021 |
| 59 | Election of 2021 ASBMB Council |
| 60 | New ASBMB Members |
| 62 | Our Sustaining Members |
| 68 | ASBMB Council |
| 69 | 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.