REPRESENTATIVE RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE
Interview in New York Times about ‘venoms to drugs’
Interview with ‘New7Wonders’ about Komodo Dragons
Our discovery that just as humans have shaped cobra evolution, cobras have shaped human evolution, with some primate lineages evolving resistance to cobras. Selected additional links IFLScience, Sydney Morning Herald, Cosmos
Our discovery that the slow moving blue tongue skink is resistant to the venom of the sympatric venomous predator the Red Belly Black Snake Selected additional links Cosmos, The Guardian,
Our discovery of a new form of resistance to venom: electrostatic repulsion Selected additional links Cosmos, IFLScience
Our work untangling stonefish venom neurotoxicity Selected additional links Brisbane Times, The Guardian, Science Times
Our work revealing why dogs are so much more sensitive to snakebites from species that affect the blood. Selected additional links IFLScience, ABC
Our work showing that one of the slow loris defensive toxins is highly similar to the protein in cat dander makes people allergic to cats, suggesting a potential role in cats for the use of an allergen as a defence just as it is used in the slow loris. Selected additional links Cosmos, Brisbane Times, ABC
Our invention of a protocol for animal-free testing of venoms for neurotoxic effects. Selected additional links ScienceTechDaily, HumaneResearch
Our work on blood pressure regulating drugs from vampire bats, and how this is being hampered by narco cartels taking over the regions our field sites are located in. Selected additional links ABC, IFLScience, AustraliaScience
Our discovery that potent bird-specific toxins are wide-spread in Boiga species, and thus the brown tree snake invasion of Guam was just the right snake in the wrong place. Selected additional links News.com.au, MongaBay, IFLScience
Our discovery of a new species of bandy bandy snake Selected additional links: Sydney Morning Herald; IFLScience; CNET; Cosmos; UPI; The Guardian Week in Wildlife
Our work showing saw-scaled viper venoms are a huge public health issue due to narrow taxonomic ranges of antivenom efficacy combined with unscrupulous antivenom manufacturers selling antivenoms outside their regions of usefullness Economist, IFLScience
Our work showing tiger snake venoms are highly conserved, resulting in extremely high levels of antivenom cross-reactivity International Business Times, Gizmodo, EarthTouch News, phys.org
Our work into lizard venoms as potential sources of stroke treatment ABC, IBT, Eureka Alert, UPI, IFLScience
Our work showing that fang blenny fish venom contains opioid peptides BBC (text), BBC (video), IFLScience, Science Sushi, other links (google search results)
Our work discovering that brown snakes have neurotoxic venom as babies but blood acting venom as adults Brisbane Times, IFLScience, Australian Geographic, Science Sushi, other media links (google search results)
Our work showing that in cobras cytotoxicity is a defensive innovation linked to aposematic colouring and patterns Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, Gizmodo, International Buisiness Times, IFLScience, other media links (google search results)
Our work discovering novel spastic paralysis inducing neurotoxins from the venom of the long-glanded blue coral snake Science Daily, Washington Post, IFLScience, Australian Geographic, Business Insider, other media links (google search results)
Australian Academy of Science Brain Box
The Project http://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-project/extra/season-7/venom-doc
Conversations http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/08/24/4297954.htm
Sunrise https://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/watch/29332831/introducing-dr-venom/
Life Matters http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/venom-bryan-grieg-fry/6715596
Two of us: Kristina Formuzal and Dr Bryan Grieg Fry