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).
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CURRENT ISSUE: DECEMBER 2020
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Table of Contents
| 3 | Editorial Committee |
| 4 | From the President |
| 5 | ASBMB 2020 Meeting Reports |
| 9 | Publications with Impact |
| Unravelling the Speciation, Trafficking, Autoinflammatory Potential of the Killer Protein, MLKL | |
| Fluid Coupling in the Rotary Motor of Life | |
| The Natural Function of a Multidrug Resistance Transporter | |
| Uncovering a New Way in Which Tumours Co-opt Their Microenvironments to Promote Disease Progression |
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| Mutational Landscape of Gall Bladder Cancers | |
| Structural Venomics: from Single to Double Knots and Everything in Between | |
| 19 | ASBMB Education Feature |
| Online Lessons From Our Students – 2020 ASBMB Education Symposium | |
| Ten Reasons to Crowdsource Exam Questions (and How to Do it Properly) | |
| Transitioning Case-based Biochemistry Workshops to Online During COVID-19 | |
| 25 | SDS PAGE |
| A Beginner’s Guide to Milestone Preparation | |
| 27 | Competition: Campus Visit |
| 28 | Perth Protein Group: an ASBMB Special Interest Group |
| 29 | Metabolism and Molecular Medicine: an ASBMB Special Interest Group |
| 31 | Off the Beaten Track |
| Follow Your Dreams, Until Something Better Comes Along | |
| 32 | ASBMB Member Wins Western Australian Premier’s Science Award |
| 34 | Intellectual Property |
| Timing is Everything: When to Pull the Trigger on Patent Filing | |
| 37 | News from the States |
| 40 | Great Expectations |
| It’s Not Only What You Know, It’s Who You Know – an Unplanned Career | |
| 44 | ASBMB Member Named Melburnian of the Year |
| 44 | In Memoriam |
| 46 | ASBMB Annual Reports |
| 51 | Our Sustaining Members |
| 56 | ASBMB Council |
| 57 | 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.