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 in this twitter/X thread.
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.
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 the past 400 million years, to the Spice Trade, the Opium War, and the Opioid Epidemic. The print book is published in North America by Little Brown Spark (Hachette), in the UK and Commonwealth by Oneworld Publications, and the audiobook by Audible. The book was fortunate to receive a Kirkus Star.
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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