This podcast is the first in a series of interviews with contributors to the JBC Minireview Thematic Series, The Biochemical Basis for Triplet Repeat Neurodegenerative Diseases. In this installment we hear from minireview coordinator Joel Gottesfeld about recent developments in this fascinating field including the roles of gene silencing and toxic RNA.
To read articles in this series visit www.jbc.org/thematics.

Length: 8:30 min.

The ASBMB held its annual meeting in conjunction with the Experimental Biology Meeting in New Orleans in April 2009. This podcast features a keynote lecture for graduate students and post-docs by Dr. Michael Summers, a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an HHMI investigator. Dr. Summers also participates in the Meyerhoff Scholars program as a faculty research mentor. In this lecture he talks about his research into HIV, mentoring undergraduate researchers and issues of diversity in science.

Length: 57:15 min.

This podcast is the third in a series of interviews with contributors to the JBC Minireview Thematic Series on Metals in Biology. In this installment we hear from minireview author Caroline Enns about the role of iron in the world of biochemistry and beyond and she will talk about the minireview she co-authored with An-Sheng Zhang, "Iron Homeostasis: Recently Identified Proteins Provide Insight into Novel Control Mechanisms." To read articles in this series visit www.jbc.org/thematics.

Length: 18 min.

This podcast features an interview by JBC Deputy Editor Robert Simoni with University of Washington PhD student Jevin West about Eigenfactor, the new bibliographic metric that has rearranged the map of journal citations. See how the journals stack up on this interactive data map.

Length: 14:40

This podcast is the first in a series of interviews with contributors to the JBC Minireview Thematic Series on Metals in Biology. We start off the series with an introductory interview with JBC Associate Editor Fred Guengerich who talks about the underdog status of metals in biochemistry and tries to take on some tough metals trivia questions. To read articles in this series visit www.jbc.org/thematics.

Length: 12:50