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Dr Samantha Nixon @samnscience.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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! 🐸

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Dan Minor @electrosomeucsf.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

New insights from our group into how frogs resist toxic environments published today! 🎉🐸 Congratulations to Sandra, Samantha @samnscience.bsky.social, Zhou, and our collaborators Tod Leighfield, Filizola lab @martafilizola.bsky.social, and Du Bois lab at Stanford. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Structural basis for saxitoxin congener binding and neutralization by anuran saxiphilins

Nature Communications - Dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria produce saxitoxin (STX) congeners that block voltage-gated sodium channels. Here authors show how amphibians may sequester STX congeners...

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Dr Samantha Nixon @samnscience.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Actually we have tarantulas all over Australia! Check out this map of tarantula distribution from Atlas of Living Australia. 🕷️

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Dr Samantha Nixon @samnscience.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Definitely not a funnel-web by the web or legs! Those big velvety legs look like a lovely tarantula to me!

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 05/12/2024

I am working on a list of practical things that folks can do to help protect California amphibians, as part of a book project. Can you help me add to this list? 📷: Northwestern Salamander by Spencer Riffle

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