Martin Chalfie is University Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. We talk about green fluorescent protein, 2008, and Douglas Prasher.

For more information:

• Martin Chalfie's Nobel Prize Telephone Interview, Biographical, and Lecture

• The Thrill of Defeat by Bob Goldstein

• Implications for bcd mRNA localization from spatial distribution of exu protein in Drosophila oogenesis by Shengxian Wang and Tulle Hazelrigg

• Glowing Gene's Discoverer Left Out Of Nobel Prize, NPR Morning Edition

• Articles about Douglas Prasher by New York Times, Discover Magazine, and The Scientist

• How Bad Institutional Support Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize by Maggie Delano

• Here's what the Obama administration did for science by Jason Lederman and Sara Chodosh