Please join me in congratulating Hiromu Suzuki in finishing his PhD at Cal on mechanisms underlying evolution of reduced aversion to dietary electrophiles in Scaptomyza flava! Dr. Suzuki will now do a postdoc with Trevor Sorrells at Yale. We are proud of you and will miss you Hiro!

Reading about Nature s toxins in full Nature. How Noah writes the story is quite refreshing ^^
#mostdeliciouspoison Noah Whiteman

Some compounds we know as plant hormones are widespread in green algae.
Check out our comprehensive phytohormone profiling of #streptophyte #algae and more, now published in Nature Communications

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#phytohormones #evolution Petrášek Lab
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Noah Whiteman It’s fascinating. Captivated by your storytelling and philosophical thinking.. Here was my first break moment. I’ll share you my childhood memories about wormwood and other plants later as I continue the reading. Thanks!

Congratulations to MCZ Curator of Lepidoptera and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor Naomi Pierce, who was recently inducted into the National Academy of Sciences! Seen here with MCZ Curator of Ornithology and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Chair Scott V Edwards (left)

Please join me in congratulating the newest Ph.D. from the Whiteman Lab: HHMI NEWS Gilliam Fellow Dr. Jessica Aguilar (@Jess_M_Agui) who will join Prof. Tadashi Fukami at Stanford on an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology! We will miss you Jess.

Isabel Serrano is working with California State University, Fullerton, to give back to their community and help other students find out about the nascent interdisciplinary field of computational biology (CC: CCB UC Berkeley)
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Husband made a strawberry-rhubarb pie with our friend. It is divine. Rhubarb was from the garden! Coffee mug by Erica Bree Rosenblum. Simple pleasures.

I can’t stop watching it

Finally got a big chunk of time to read ‘Most Delicious Poison’ written by Noah Whiteman

For #Roman SiteSaturday a section of the #Roman Eifel #aqueduct that supplied water to the city of Cologne. The vaulted underground tunnel with an inspection shaft at Mechernich-Breitenbenden was unearthed during construction work in the late 1970s. The estimated...1/2

what were the favorite metabolites of the ancient egyptian pharaohs?

pyrimidines

Excited for Nerd Nite SF on May 22 Rickshaw Stop where I will be speaking about my book #MOSTDELICIOUSPOISON following talks by Stepy Kamei on the circularity of time and on how to draw an octopus by sam julian. I will be signing books. Buy tickets here: tinyurl.com/xv5kbrzt

Terrific talk on role of neural crest cells in regeneration of damaged hearts by PhD student Alex Haugan in Megan Martik’s lab at the annual retreat for the Genetic Dissection of Cells and Organisms T32 Training Grant. We were in the Julia Morgan House UC Botanical Garden UC Berkeley.

Wonderful talk on how HIV and congeneric viruses switch hosts, escape host factors, etc. by PhD student Claire Evensen in Prof. Molly Ohainle, Ph.D.’s lab at the Genetic Dissection of Cells and Organisms T32 Training Grant retreat today UC Berkeley.

Proud of Rebecca Tarnopol’s Alumna Lecture for the tri-department Genetic Dissection of Cells and Organisms T32 Training Grant’s retreat UC Botanical Garden. We had a wonderful day of trainee talks/posters and a *spectacular* Keynote Lecture on genetics of adaptation by Stanford Prof. Gavin Sherlock.

Berkeley undergrad Jossie Tamsil (advised by Rebecca Tarnopol) gave a terrific talk on her Honors Thesis research focusing on how animals that evolve new immune factors mitigate the risk autoimmunity