Melissa Wilson

Hi Everyone,Thank you so much for your supportYou were all featured in an article about the whole crowd-funding process just before COVID-19 hit. It features a huge thank you to all of our wonderfu...

Hi Everyone,We're doing the deep troubleshooting of making sure that what we think we see is actually what we see, in the DNA. We're searching through the haystack of DNA from three males and three...

Making a new genome is like putting together a meta-puzzle. First, we think about the genome, which in our Gila monster, is not just one long strand of DNA, but many strands of DNA (chromosomes). S...

Ed Yong wrote about our wonderful monsters for the Atlantic. Read here for more about these awesome critters: https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...Here is the photo, by Will Burgess/Reuters that accomp...

Last time we talked about our most important collaborators, the Gila monsters (you can read that here). I'm excited to share some pictures of the blood they've kindly donated to our efforts to lear...

What are we collecting? For this project, we are collecting a small blood sample from six Gila monsters. Some of the blood will be used for DNA analysis and some for RNA analysis. After we collect ...

Thank you so much to Jason Volentine for his story on the Gila monster genome on Arizona's 3TV news yesterday featuring Dale DeNardo and a little cameo from me! http://www.azfamily.com/story/317974...

The Gila monster was featured on this week's Ask a Biologist podcast. You can read the transcript or listen here: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/monster-dna?...