Thank you Crowdfunders!
Hi Everyone,Thank you so much for your supportYou were all featured in an article about the whole crowd-funding process just before COVID-19 hit. It features a huge thank you to all of our wonderfu...
Gila monster genome featured on Arizona PBS
Hi Everyone,We're doing the deep troubleshooting of making sure that what we think we see is actually what we see, in the DNA. We're searching through the haystack of DNA from three males and three...
Making a genome
Making a new genome is like putting together a meta-puzzle. First, we think about the genome, which in our Gila monster, is not just one long strand of DNA, but many strands of DNA (chromosomes). S...
Arizona's Adorable Monster featured at the Atlantic
Ed Yong wrote about our wonderful monsters for the Atlantic. Read here for more about these awesome critters: https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...Here is the photo, by Will Burgess/Reuters that accomp...
Collecting blood
Last time we talked about our most important collaborators, the Gila monsters (you can read that here). I'm excited to share some pictures of the blood they've kindly donated to our efforts to lear...
Meet the monsters
What are we collecting? For this project, we are collecting a small blood sample from six Gila monsters. Some of the blood will be used for DNA analysis and some for RNA analysis. After we collect ...
First steps
Now that our crowdfunding campaign for the first stage of the Gila monster genome has successfully completed (Thank-you to all the backers!), what do we do now? Transferring fundsFirst, the money t...
Gila monster genome on Arizona 3TV
Thank you so much to Jason Volentine for his story on the Gila monster genome on Arizona's 3TV news yesterday featuring Dale DeNardo and a little cameo from me! http://www.azfamily.com/story/317974...
Monster genome
The Gila monster was featured on this week's Ask a Biologist podcast. You can read the transcript or listen here: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/monster-dna?...