Dr Samantha Nixon
@samnscience.bsky.social
Venoms and toxin researcher studying molecular basis of toxin resistance. Former arachnophobe turned spider advocate. Current postdoc at UCSF. PhD at UQ. 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸
Proud to have been a part of a huge collaborative team with Sandra Zakrzewska, Zhou Chen, @electrosomeucsf.bsky.social, Du Bois lab, Tod Leighfield, Filizola lab and many others! Shout out to Sophion for patch clamp instruments critical for the study! Go team Saxiphilin! 🐸
May 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Proud to have been a part of a huge collaborative team with Sandra Zakrzewska, Zhou Chen, @electrosomeucsf.bsky.social, Du Bois lab, Tod Leighfield, Filizola lab and many others! Shout out to Sophion for patch clamp instruments critical for the study! Go team Saxiphilin! 🐸
Actually we have tarantulas all over Australia! Check out this map of tarantula distribution from Atlas of Living Australia. 🕷️
January 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Actually we have tarantulas all over Australia! Check out this map of tarantula distribution from Atlas of Living Australia. 🕷️
Definitely not a funnel-web by the web or legs! Those big velvety legs look like a lovely tarantula to me!
January 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Definitely not a funnel-web by the web or legs! Those big velvety legs look like a lovely tarantula to me!