Eleanor Fapohunda Colloquium Series

Dr. Bjarne Bartlett, “Toxins, Teas, and Technology: Building Data Bridges Across Biology”.

From cone snail venoms to kombucha SCOBYs, biology offers an array of natural chemistries. This talk explores how computational biology and data science illuminates hidden worlds of toxins and microbial communities. Venom peptides inspire new therapeutics, kombucha cultures transform dairy waste into sustainable beverages, and genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics data harnessed makes sense of this. “Building data bridges” across disciplines, explains evolution’s molecular innovations and reimagine their potential for medicine, food science, and beyond.