Alexa Zytnick

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thinking about postdocs as a 5th year grad student in the US right now be like

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

ah! nice running into you on bluesky for the first time! unfortunately under such horrible circumstances that we share :)

yay rebecca!!!

Experimental horizontal transfer of phage-derived genes to Drosophila confers innate immunity to parasitoids Metazoan parasites have played a major role in shaping innate immunity in animals. Insect hosts and parasitoid wasps are excellent models for illumina…

Excited to share the major work of my dissertation, out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We use Drosophila genetics to dissect the evolution of phage-derived toxins that were horizontally transferred to insects and now function as potent anti-parasitoid defenses (1/n): tinyurl.com/2k9ypyxr

Save UC Berkeley's World Language Programs We demand that UC Berkeley take the necessary steps to protect the livelihoods, careers, and education of the students and workers that protect and bring excellence to our language programs. Link to...

UC Berkeley is cutting language programs with no notice despite the imminent roll out of an undergrad language requirement. Course quality will decrease w/ bigger class sizes & lecturers (both pre-six and continuing) are losing their jobs.

PLEASE SHARE & SIGN this open letter: tinyurl.com/55ybjbyt

with the support of @daadworldwide.bsky.social i had an amazing time sharing my science at #fallingwalls last week in berlin. it was great to meet early career researchers from 100+ countries!

Identification and characterization of a small-molecule metallophore involved in lanthanide metabolism | PNAS Many bacteria secrete metallophores, low-molecular-weight organic compounds that bind ions with high selectivity and affinity, in order to access e...

hello bluesky! introducing myself here…i study how methylotrophs sense and acquire rare earth elements. my first paper on the discovery of a lanthanide chelator came out this summer! i’m currently working on understanding its biosynthesis and regulation 🦠 #microsky

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