2015.02.17 Natural Toxins: Why We Care and Why the Honey Badger Don't with Sharon Jansa & Danielle Drabeck
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Edit: Danielle would like to correct something from the Q&A - "The estimate for venom volume was way off! Should be between 0.1mL and 1mL, I get it from them in diluted form, which is why my estimate was so big." Café Scientifique with Professor Sharon Jansa and her grad student Danielle Drabeck, "Natural Toxins: Why We Care and Why the Honey Badger Don't." Recorded at the Bryant Lake Bowl on 02-17-15. "Bell Museum curator of mammals Sharon Jansa and her intrepid grad student Danielle Drabeck have spent the last couple of years examining the evolution of resistance to snake venom in mammals, and are about to publish a new paper on the evolution of resistance to snake venom in honey badgers. They will introduce us to anthropological/cultural interpretations of toxins through a scientific lens, and explain how the honey badger's adaptations help researchers use biochemistry and evolutionary biology to better understand interspecific interactions and evolution itself."
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