Comments on: A Biofortified Podcast?

By: Epicanis

Epicanis — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:11:14 +0000

I don’t professionally work in food microbiology (at this time), so for the moment I have to content myself with doing Hillbilly Biotech at home. My dream of making “GloGurt™” with engineered lactic-acid bacteria will have to wait, I fear, but I’m hoping to do some bioprospecting for acetic acid bacteria among the local flora when the flowers start blooming in the next month or so.

Full Disclosure: I also have occasional delusions of becoming a Famous Internet Radio Personality, if I can get more time for regular updates and acquire more than “nearly 3″ listeners…

By: Anastasia Bodnar

Anastasia Bodnar — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:08:36 +0000

Mmm, Epicanis, I’m a fan of intentional food microbiology as well – in both the scientific and gustatory ways.

Do you work in food microbiology?

By: Karl Haro von Mogel

Karl Haro von Mogel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:34:28 +0000

Thanks for the input – we could probably end up talking about related – but intersecting – topics such as stuff about agriculture, food, genetic engineering not with plants, etc. For example, there’s the genetically-engineered rennet enzymes that are used in cheese – that sounds like one thing to talk about. Then there’s brewer’s yeast genetically engineered to produce resveratrol like in red wine…!

Plus one of these days I’m going to do some research on genetic engineering and honeybees, it would also be an interesting topic too.

By: Epicanis

Epicanis — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:35:46 +0000

Personally, I’d be most interested in a “topical” show rather than interviews (“current events” counts as “topical” in this context).

My personal interests tend to revolve around what I like to call “intentional food microbiology” (food fermentation, industrial microbiology, etc. rather than “keeping E.coli off my spinach”), so including topics regarding e.g. recombinant microbes in food fermentation or production (e.g. citric acid) would particularly interest me.

Therefore, if you occasionally include a topic in that range somewhere you’ll have at least one listener…

(Applied biotechnology in general interests me as well).