ASCB's Pathways Podcast

This month on the Pathways Podcast we interview Rose Hendricks, program director for the Society Civic Science initiative, which is based at ASCB. We will discuss her research project “Assessing How Americans Want to Participate in Science.”

This month on the Pathways Podcast we talk to Alex Mogilner, one of the editors of the 8th Special Issue on Quantitative Biology, published by ASCB’s basic science research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell.

For the September Pathways Podcast, we chat with ASCB Director of Meetings Alison Harris and Meeting Manager Danielle Raiford about CellBio Virtual 2021, including the new way speakers were chosen for the minisymposia and special interest subgroups.

This month on the Pathways Podcast we speak with Julie Dangremond Stanton and Amanda Sebesta about their recent paper and teaching guide in CBE Life Sciences Education on using metacognition to help students learn. Their paper, Fostering Metacognition to Support Student Learning and Performance, can be found here.

The July Pathways Podcast features Matthew Welch, editor-in-chief for ASCB’s basic science research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell.  We chat about new initiatives at MBoC and find out what sets our publication apart.

This month on the Pathways Podcast we interview Lee Ligon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)  and Katelyn Cooper (Arizona State University) on how to create a more inclusive and welcoming environment in our laboratories and classroom for members of the LBGTQ+ community. For further reading, Fourteen Recommendations to Create a More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Individuals in Academic Biology.

Doug Cyr of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill studies protein folding and misfolding and the molecules associated with it. His lab recently published a paper in ASCB's journal Molecular Biology of the Cell - DNAJB12 and Hsp70 Triage Arrested Intermediates of N1303K-CFTR for ER Associated-Autophagy. We discuss that paper and his lab's research overall.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is adding a new research focus -- 4D Cellular Physiology. On this episode of the Pathways Podcast from the American Society for Cell Biology we chat with Ron Vale, the Vice President and Executive Director of HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a senior group leader also at Janelia, about this new direction and how it will impact the cell biology community.