Kirsten I. Verster

@kirvers

PhD Candidate at U. C. Berkeley | evolutionary genetics, adaptation, insects, horizontal gene transfer

University of California-Berkeley
Joined September 2017

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  1. 8 hours ago

    "Future Faculty Career Exploration Program" Four-day program designed for PhD students to network with Rochester Institute of Technology administration/faculty/students :

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    This is how I’m starting all my e-mails from now on

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  3. 8 hours ago
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    Jeff Bezos should start making oligos- Amazon Primer

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  5. Jan 30

    Unlike many sugar-transporting proteins, a transporter in one species of malaria parasite can import several types of sugar equally effectively, aiding the parasite’s survival:

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  6. Jan 28

    Evolutionary genetics of paper wasp cognition! My very first ever science internship ever was with Polistes!

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  7. Jan 25

    Gif I'm going to use for my first-discussion-section-slide where I necessarily and casually explain my chronic and loud hiccups:

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  8. Jan 24

    Snake stem cells grown in culture produce venom, which acts like real venom. Whoah!

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    Jan 24
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  10. Jan 24

    People thought iridescence (e.g. shininess in dragonflies and jewel beetles) serves to attract mates, but this cool new study suggests it can actually serve as camouflage from birds & people:

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  11. Jan 24

    Title was kind of misleading. "More diversity at the top". Then I saw the actual title: "Single-cell transcriptional diversity is a hallmark of developmental potential". Oooh gotcha.

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  12. Jan 21

    Farming ants optimize crop yield by selectively planting their crops in full sun:

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    Jan 14

    Coverage of my wife's lab at Cornell - very proud of her! Biologist’s research offers insight on molecular structures | Cornell Chronicle via

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  14. Jan 16

    New "missing link" between jaw/inner ear bone transition found from well-preserved specimens caught sleeping:

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  15. Jan 16

    Flight feathers are connected by Velcro-like hooks which are robust to turbulence. But also noisy, which is why they're absent in silent fliers like owls:

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  16. Jan 16

    Leave it to pixar to have me quietly crying 30 minutes into a science through storytelling workshop

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  17. Jan 14

    Grasshoppers & gravity (i.e. grasshopper cardiovascular systems are affected by body orientation):

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    Jan 8

    We just updated our exhaustive, searchable & downloadable list of fellowships for PhDs. Happy search and good luck. Download here:

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    Jan 8
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  20. Jan 8

    Chinese paddlefish, which has been around since the Jurassic period and could weigh almost 1,000 pounds, now considered totally extinct: !

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