
alexa zytnick
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alexa zytnick
@zzzytty
PhD candidate @PMB_Berkeley @CeciMGLab studying biomining of rare earths 🦠⛏📱| @DeptofDefense @NDSEG fellow | previously @VanderbiltU chem bio | yinzer


🧵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: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… /1

















My first, first author paper is finally out! Here we discover methylolanthanin, a lanthanide chelator secreted by methylotrophs 🧵(1/5) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

My first, first author paper is finally out! Here we discover methylolanthanin, a lanthanide chelator secreted by methylotrophs 🧵(1/5) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…




