Jersey girl, rain lover, chalkboard equation addict. Associate professor & eco-evo theoretician (Erdős # = 5) at EEMB, UCSB (#unicornjob🦄). All good bugs photosynthesize. Tell your 🚲 I said "hi." she/her
Latest Foster 🐈⬛: #MeetCapone (now adopted!)
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Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.
Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature.
Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
One time I intentionally made #RArt for a college contest when I was a postdoc.
Eye-to-eye and a wink from a manatee in Coral City #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #sirenia #eyetoeye #coralcitycamera
