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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”

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”