PhD candidate Rebecca Tarnopol has a new preprint in bioRxiv detailing much of her dissertation work. She and collaborators at UC Berkeley, Stanford and the HUN-REN Biological Research Centre in Szeged, Hungary used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila. More details inContinue reading “Collaborative Study on Horizontal Gene Transfer in Drosophila with UC Berkeley PhD Candidate Rebecca Tarnopol”
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Rebecca Tarnopol and Diler Haji at TAGC
PhD Candidates Rebecca Tarnopol and Diler Haji are at TAGC, or The Allied Genetics Conference, in Washington, DC from March 6th to 10th, 2024 and will present their research on Saturday the 9th. Diler will present a poster on experimental evolution of leafming flies and Rebecca will speak during the Comparative Genomics session.
Most Delicious Poison
Proud to announce the publication of Most Delicious Poison. Written with the help of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Geggenheim Memorial Foundation. Overall, the book traces how toxins from nature changed the world–the natural and the human–from the origin of land plants and animals to the diversification of each lineage over theContinue reading “Most Delicious Poison”
Jessica Aguilar receives NSF fellowship
The Whiteman Lab is delighted to announce that PhD candidate and HHMI Gilliam Fellow Jessica Aguilar was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology to work with Tadashi Fukami at Stanford on the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei), its gut bacteria, and bacteriophage!
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