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The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry announces its 2016 Award Winners for excellence in many diverse areas of biological chemistry. Find out more here.

The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry has added a new page to its website for research resources. Contact the webmaster if you would like your tool added. The first tool highlighted is the EFI-EST tool for for generating sequence similarity networks (SSNs) for protein families that was developed by the Enzyme Function Initiative. Read more about it here.

The DBC offers travel awards on a competitive basis for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend national meetings and present a poster or oral presentation on their research. Selected awardees will be reimbursed up to $500 for travel and registration expenses. Find out more here.

The ACS DBC invites abstracts for the ACS Spring National Meeting in San Diego, CA. The program will consist of oral sessions composed of short 20 minute talks and poster sessions. Program Chairs: Vahe Bandarian, University of Utah and Liz Hedstrom, Brandeis University.  Abstracts are due by October 12, 2015.  Find out more here!

We are soliciting your nominations for the 2015 ACS Chemical Biology Lecturer. 2015 is the 10th anniversary our journal and the lectureship symposium will include a special celebration of the progress and success of ACS Chemical Biology.

The BIOL division Advisory Council is in the process of drafting a strategic plan to outline a vision for providing symposia and services that are valuable to our current members, as well as drawing in new members. We hope that you will help us in crafting the strategic plan by replying to a brief survey.

The BIOL leadership has (for many years) been aware of the very severe age restrictions on nominees for the Lilly and Pfizer awards. We are therefore pleased to announce that, after consultation with representatives of both companies, these requirements have been changed to reflect the very different career paths followed in the 21st century. We hope that many early-career investigators who thought they were ineligible will now be able to put together nomination packets for these awards. Please note that all the other nomination requirements remain unchanged from previous years.

The organizers have extended the submission date for ACS 247 in Dallas, TX until October 18, 2013.