January 22, 2010--In this podcast ASBMB science writer Nick Zagorski interviews science comedian Brian Malow as a follow up to the ASBMB Today article "A Stand-Up Man for Science." The pair talk about what it’s like telling jokes to scientists and some of Malow's recent efforts to improve science awareness through videos and science festivals. Read the article.

December 14, 2009--In this podcast we will hear JBC Associate Editor James Siedow of Duke University interview JBC author Ludger Beerhues, a professor of pharmaceutical biology at the University of Braunschweig in Germany, about his paper on how a single point mutation in a metabolic plant enzyme produced a mutant with new and potentially useful properties. Beerhues also talks about the potential applications of metabolic engineering in fighting agricultural pests such as fire blight in apple and pear trees and a fungus that attacks St. John's Wort. Read the paper.

Length: 15:34

November 6, 2009-In this podcast, science writer Nick Zagorski speaks with Sam Gandy, a Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and one of the scientists featured in Geoffrey Beene’s ‘Rock Stars of Science’ Campaign. Gandy talks about the life of a rock star and the future of Alzheimer Disease research.

You can read more about this unique partnership between the stars of rock and the stars of science in the November issue of ASBMB Today.

October 9, 2009--In this podcast, ASBMB Today's science writer Nick Zagorski interviews Tuajuanda Jordan, Director of the Science Education Alliance at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, about the first years of this novel science education program. You can read more stories on science education in the October issue of ASBMB Today.

Length: 11:45

September 10, 2009--In this podcast, ASBMB science writer Nick Zagorski interviews Columbia Professor Larry Shapiro, who’s lab was the subject of “Naturally Obsessed,” the documentary about academic science highlighted in this month’s ASBMB Today.