The Whiteman Lab

The Official Twitter of Noah K. Whiteman Lab at University of California, Berkeley

[Rebecca Tarnopol @trnpl]

🧵Excited to share my first author preprint detailing much of my dissertation work! Here we used gene editing to retrace the horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene that now encodes an anti-parasitoid toxin in Drosophila: https://t.co/KRKvzCIewb /1

[The Whiteman Lab @TheWhitemanLab]

Also be sure to check out @DilerHaj poster that same day in the evening p891 on experimental evolution of flies and toxic host plants

[Rebecca Tarnopol @trnpl]

Excited to be in DC for #TAGC24! I'm giving a talk this Saturday 3/9 9AM/Comparative Genomics session. Come learn how flies co-opted novel anti-parasitoid effectors from phages! Should have a little something for everybody (evolution! endosymbiosis! immunity! fly genetics!)

[The Whiteman Lab @TheWhitemanLab]

Big shout out to Gillian Oaks and Sam Zaninelli, undergraduate researchers in the lab last year and are now moving on to graduate programs in the Fall. Gillian will be attending MIT and Sam will be attending Columbia University.

Congratulations to you both!!

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New paper out today in @PNASNews by @kirvers in collaboration with Gyöngyi Cinege at the Biological Research Center in Hungary. Details the evolution of new #Drosophila genes through #horizontalgenetransfer #hgt that confer parasitoid resistance. https://t.co/PsjpfTtQk8

[Dra. Kirsten Isabel Verster 🪰🧬🦠 @kirvers]

It was so wonderful to collaborate with @ScienceAtCal & @ConsulmexSFO to create this video for the Spanish-language event "Un Vistazo al Laboratorio", giving you a peak into @TheWhitemanLab & our research topics. English subtitles as well :-) #scicomm #LatinxInSTEM

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We extend BIG congratulations to soon-to-be-graduate @akalu_saron !!! She will be graduating with honors from @berkeleyIB and will be starting as a research tech at @YaleMed with Dr. Jason Sheltzer before applying to grad schools. Look out world!

[Dra. Kirsten Isabel Verster 🪰🧬🦠 @kirvers]

Yay! Such an awesome time! Thanks to @bhjuarez for organizing, @JorgeRH2O for hosting and all the amazing postdocs for a cool diversity of interesting + informative talks!

[Science at Cal @ScienceAtCal]

¿Cómo es trabajar en un laboratorio? Descúbrelo durante los recorridos del laboratorio en español el jueves, el 28 de abril, 11 (PT). Este evento es para familias y estudiantes de todas las edades. #BASF2022 #LetsGoScience #ScienceTogether

Detalles: https://t.co/dglSYw2jM9

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Exciting paper on important genes that help honey bees attack hornets by @TheWhitemanLab grad student @h_suzukii is out in @PNASNews !!!

[Hiromu Suzuki @h_suzukii]

Our bee ball paper is now featured on @PNASNews 🐝🐝🐝🔥🔥🔥🐝🐝🐝

Thanks @amygmcdermott for the beautiful summary of our work and @CraigMontell1 for the comments. Very excited to read this piece!

https://t.co/K9ST2dDkDv

[Dra. Kirsten Isabel Verster 🪰🧬🦠 @kirvers]

@jn_pelaez will also be giving a very cool talk about her work on the neurobiology of herbivory @ 11:15 AM on Friday, & wundergrad Saron @akalu_saron + Rebecca @trnpl will also be presenting their posters about #HGT on Thursday & Friday!

[Dra. Kirsten Isabel Verster 🪰🧬🦠 @kirvers]

So excited that I will be presenting at @GeneticsGSA #Dros22 in San Diego this Thursday🌞🧬🪰!

I will be giving a talk on my dissertation work about the wild whacky world of horizontal gene transfer #HGT @ 5:45 PM in the #Evolution section.

[The Whiteman Lab @TheWhitemanLab]

We are happy that our long-time PhD Candidate (soon to be graduate!) Kirsten Isabel Verster (@kirvers) won the @NSF-funded #PRFB award!

[Dra. Kirsten Isabel Verster 🪰🧬🦠 @kirvers]

So happy to receive a phone call from the @NSF saying I was recommended for funding for the #PRFB! This picture of a Polistes wasp, taken TEN years ago at my first REU, summarizes how ecstatic I'm feeling :)

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Our beloved soon-to-be Dr. Nicolas Alexandre (@NicMAlexandre) has accepted a postdoctoral position working w/ Dr. Beth Shapiro @bonesandbugs at @ucsantacruz! He will be tackling exciting questions in conservation & evolutionary genomics. We are so excited for you Nic 🤩🦤🐟🌼!!!

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@TeruyukiMatsun1 Teru surrounded by the grad students who have gotten to know and love him over the years! @kirvers @trnpl @h_suzukii @dlrhj @jn_pelaez @Jess_M_Agui @NicMAlexandre @TeruyukiMatsun1

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We are so happy for Dr. Teruyuki Matsunaga, who is going on to an Asst Professor position to work with Dr. Akinao Nose @ University of Tokyo. He will be working on Scaptomyza olfactory evolution in the Dept of Complexity Science & Engineering. We will miss you @TeruyukiMatsun1 !

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We are so thrilled about Dr. Samridhi Chaturvedi (@samridhichat) getting an Assistant Professor position at @Tulane !

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Totally rad-ish that this paper published by lead @NicMAlexandre and others including @dlrhj Dr. Moe Bakhtiari @Jess_M_Agui is now out !!!

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Congratulations to PhD Candidate Nicolas Alexandre @NicMAlexandre who published the genome assembly of wild radish, now published in Journal of Heredity ! 🌸💐

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We are happy this image of our recent paper about #HGT of #toxin genes in #midges was featured on
@GenomeBiolEvol's twitter! 🪰🧬

Featuring authors @kirvers @trnpl @akalu_saron and @NKWhiteman

[GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) @GenomeBiolEvol]

Horizontal Transfer of Microbial Toxin Genes to Gall Midge Genomes: https://t.co/fanQRzo7Gy @kirvers @trnpl @NKWhiteman @TheWhitemanLab @akalu_saron

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Saron (@akalu_saron), @TheWhitemanLab undergraduate student, participated in an #REU this summer studying craniofacial morphology in humans! One of the final products of her research is this *interactive* poster! Excellent work ⭐️

[Dra. Kirsten Isabel Verster 🪰🧬🦠 @kirvers]

Check out poster from @TheWhitemanLab star undergrad Saron @akalu_saron ! She participated in @uiowabiology @NSF #REU program this summer studying craniofacial morphology using #human #fossils 💀☠️. posters are VERY cool & interactive - never seen anything like it. Check it out!