Featured Speaker: Maria Penny
This summer we will read Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins–From Spices to Vices, by Noah Whiteman, published in 2023 (ASIN: B0BTZ3N2XK).
From the Amazon webpage: Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry and neuroscience, Most Delicious Poison reveals the origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes and even some animals and the mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them. This perpetual chemical war not only drove the diversification of life on Earth, but also is intimately tied to our own successes and failures. Noah Whiteman is an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley, where he is Professor of Integrative Biology and of Molecular and Cell Biology.
These are the reading assignments:
July 8: Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 3 (to page 92)
July 22: Chapters 3 (from page 92), 4, 5, 6
August 5: Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10 (to page 264)
August 19: Chapters 10 (from page 264), 11, 12, 13
Presenter Biography
Maria Penny retired from two careers, as a high-school physics teacher and as a scientific programmer. She earned a BA in physics from New York University and a PhD in science education from the University of Maryland.
7/8/2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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7/22/2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
A/350
8/5/2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
A/350
8/19/2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
A/350
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