Noah Whiteman
Professor, Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology
Noah Whiteman is an evolutionary biology and genetics professor at UC Berkeley. He also has affiliations with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Center for Computational Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Essig Museum of Entomology, and University and Jepson Herbaria. His laboratory focuses on understanding how and why plants and microbes use toxins and how animals overcome and even steal those toxins, as well as host-parasite interactions. He is also interested in understanding how biological toxins can be leveraged to prevent and treat human disease. He teaches the introductory evolution class (IB 160) at Berkeley.
With the support of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he wrote the book Most Delicious Poison about the origins of biotoxins and their use and abuse by humans. His approach to this research provides a new lens through which to view both natural and human history, as well as the biology of addiction.
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