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María José Navarrete

María José Navarrete

María José (Majo) is an Ecuadorian biologist and a PhD candidate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in the Tarvin lab. Her research focuses on unraveling the origin and evolution of chemical defenses, with a particular emphasis on guanidinium alkaloids such as the...
Asa Conover

Asa Conover

Asa studies how microbes contribute to the functioning of larger organisms. For his dissertation, he uses the digestive microbiome of the carnivorous California pitcher plant as a model for understanding how microbiomes function and how we can manipulate them. Asa...