My Work
I have over 5 years of marketing and scientific communications in the life sciences and over 10 years of molecular biology experience. I earned my Ph.D. in Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley studying germline regeneration and also gained experience in single cell genomics while at the Broad Institute. Outside of work I love doing photography in nature or in the lab and doing educational science outreach.
Publications:
Angela Abitua (2020) How Life Science Journals Can be Champions of Better Material Sharing and Reporting. Science Editor. 43:14-16.
Viktoria Betin, Cristina Penaranda, Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay, Rui Yang, Angela Abitua, Roby P. Bhattacharyya, Amy Fan, Roi Avraham, Jonathan Livny, Noam Shoresh & Deborah T. Hung (2019) Hybridization-based capture of pathogen mRNA enables paired host-pathogen transcriptional analysis. Scientific Reports. 9, 19244.
Philip Barron Abitua, T. Blair Gainous, Angela N. Kaczmarczyk, Christopher J. Winchell, Clare Hudson, Kaori
Kamata, Masashi Nakagawa, Motoyuki Tsuda, Takehiro G. Kusakabe, Michael Levine (2015) The prevertebrate
origins of neurogenic placodes. Nature. 524(7566): 462-5.
Joshua G. Schraiber, Angela N. Kaczmarczyk, Ricky Kwok, Miran Park, Rachel Silverstein, Florentine U.
Rutaganira, Taruna Aggarwal, Michael A. Schwemmer, Carole L. Hom, Richard K. Grosberg, Sebastian J.
Schreiber (2012) Constraints on the use of lifespan-shortening Wolbachia to control dengue fever. Journal of
Theoretical Biology. 297: 26-32.
Angela N. Kaczmarczyk, Artyom Kopp (2011) Germline stem cell maintenance as a proximate mechanism of
life-history trade-offs? BioEssays. 33(1): 5-12.
Viktoria Betin, Cristina Penaranda, Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay, Rui Yang, Angela Abitua, Roby P. Bhattacharyya, Amy Fan, Roi Avraham, Jonathan Livny, Noam Shoresh & Deborah T. Hung (2019) Hybridization-based capture of pathogen mRNA enables paired host-pathogen transcriptional analysis. Scientific Reports. 9, 19244.
Philip Barron Abitua, T. Blair Gainous, Angela N. Kaczmarczyk, Christopher J. Winchell, Clare Hudson, Kaori
Kamata, Masashi Nakagawa, Motoyuki Tsuda, Takehiro G. Kusakabe, Michael Levine (2015) The prevertebrate
origins of neurogenic placodes. Nature. 524(7566): 462-5.
Joshua G. Schraiber, Angela N. Kaczmarczyk, Ricky Kwok, Miran Park, Rachel Silverstein, Florentine U.
Rutaganira, Taruna Aggarwal, Michael A. Schwemmer, Carole L. Hom, Richard K. Grosberg, Sebastian J.
Schreiber (2012) Constraints on the use of lifespan-shortening Wolbachia to control dengue fever. Journal of
Theoretical Biology. 297: 26-32.
Angela N. Kaczmarczyk, Artyom Kopp (2011) Germline stem cell maintenance as a proximate mechanism of
life-history trade-offs? BioEssays. 33(1): 5-12.
Music:
I created the song "Dream Bean" while I was writing my PhD dissertation at UC Berkeley. I used the caustic application.
Science Writing and Media:
Videos:
A short dissection demonstration of crustacean gonad dissection.
A short video I made with my colleagues in grad school which features some of my time-lapse photography.