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ASBMB Today volunteer contributors program

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for the current calendar year.
For more information about joining the program, contact Comfort Dorn, ASBMB Today managing editor.

The ASBMB Today volunteer contributors program is open to all ASBMB members who want to practice journalistic writing or explore the field of science writing for a general audience. Each year, we publish more than 150 articles written by contributors in the program.

How it works

Volunteer contributors sign a one-year contract stipulating that they will write at least three articles in the upcoming year. Anyone who has four or more articles published in a calendar year will receive a complimentary ASBMB membership for the following year.

Our volunteer contributors take a variety of assignments for articles to be published in the magazine and on our website. These include:

  • Profiles of ASBMB members such as our annual award winners, MOSAIC scholars and others.
  • News obituaries of members, focusing on contributions to science.
  • Short summaries of papers in ASBMB journals.
  • Longer articles about papers in our journals.

We also invite our contributors to submit essays on topics of interest to our members (particularly for special issues focusing on topics such as wellness and careers) and to share their ideas for other articles and feature stories. Volunteers have written several of our cover features in recent years.

All submissions written by contributors are thoroughly edited by professional journalists. We provide guidelines and coaching to help our contributors research and report their stories and become clearer, stronger and more engaging writers.

Our contributors hold the copyright to their work and may republish in other outlets according to our republishing guidelines.

ASBMB Today welcomes submissions from all ASBMB members. However, the ASBMB Today volunteer contributors program offers a unique opportunity for any member who wants to strengthen their writing skills.

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Meet our contributors

These ASBMB Today contributors wrote four or more bylined articles in 2023.

Ankita Arora
Ankita Arora

Freelance science writer

Jessica Desamero
Jessica Desamero

Graduate student, City University of New York

Arti Dumbrepatil
Arti Dumbrepatil

Freelance science writer and communicator

Anna Hu
Anna Hu

Research assistant, Harvard School of Public Health

Chloe Kirk
Chloe Kirk

Graduate student, University of Miami

Laura McCormick
Laura McCormick

Graduate student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dami Oke
Dami Oke

Graduate student, George Washington University

Meric Ozturk
Meric Ozturk

Graduate student, Iowa State University

Andrea Pereyra
Andrea Pereyra

Postdoctoral scholar, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute

Chris Radka
Christopher Radka

Assistant professor, University of Kentucky

Aswathy Rai
Aswathy Rai

Assistant clinical professor and undergraduate coordinator, Mississippi State University

Swarnali Roy
Swarnali Roy

Postdoctoral researcher, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Nipuna Weerasinghe
Nipuna Weerasinghe

Freelance science writer