Clips
As a writer, I have been published not only in academic journals but on science communication websites as well. I am a contributor to science communication platforms such as Caltech Letters and Massive Science Consortium. I also write and develop scripts for science education and communication for Youtube channels. Below is an updated list of my web publications and scripts.
Check out my full portfolio, or my list of clips below!
Favorites
How to Get a Species Named After You
(Scientific American Observations, September 2019)
Our concept of life is too Earth-centric
(Massive Science, April 2020)
Hilde Mangold and the Organizer of Life
(Scishow, October 2021, script)
2021
Hilde Mangold and the Organizer of Life (Scishow, October 2021, script)
2020
No, Your Dog Doesn’t Think You’re the Alpha (Scishow, March 2020, script)
Why Do These Trees Refuse to Touch? (Scishow, July 2020, script)
5 of the Most Important Inventions in Robotics (Scishow, March 2020, script)
2019
Bone Cities, Ash Towers, and 4 Other Futuristic Building Materials (Scishow, December 2019, script)
Coming to a Head: Insights from a Vampire of the Deep (Caltech News, November 2019)
Why Tickle Fights Aren’t Just for Kids (Scishow Psych, October 2019, script)
How Much Data Can Our Brains Store? (Scishow, October 2019, script)
Caltech Letters Review: Our 5 Favorite Articles from 2018 to 2019 (Caltech Letters, October 2019)
A Cell’s Search for Identity (Illinois Science Council, September 2019)
Scientists tried to replicate a provocative gene editing paper in real-time (Massive Science Consortium, August 2019)
Why You Should Never Put Your Tomatoes In the Fridge (SciShow, August 2019, script)
3 of the World’s Most Intensely Colored Living Things (SciShow, August 2019, script)
Animals will start shrinking as the climate changes (Massive Science Consortium, May 2019)
The Vibrancy of Natural Color (Caltech Letters, April 2019)
Male house flies have eyes for their ladies (Massive Science Consortium, April 2019)
The Circuitry of Creativity: How Our Brains Innovate Thinking (Caltech Letters, March 2019)
2018
Color Perception: Experiments In The Sciences and The Arts (Caltech Letters, October 2018)
Giving Voice: Interruptions (Caltech, July 2018, script)
A Brief History of Color (Caltech Letters, May 2018)
Scientific Publications:
Koontz, A., H. Urritia & M.E. Bronner (2022) “Making a head: Neural crest and ectodermal placodes in cranial sensory development”. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. (in press)
Koontz, A. H. Urritia & M.E. Bronner (2022). “Retroviral lineage tracing of olfactory placode versus neural crest contribution to the chick olfactory system.” Natural Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1002/ntls.20210037 (link).
Samaneh Moghadasi Boroujeni, Alison Koontz, Georgios Tseropoulos, Laura Kerosuo, Pihu Mehrotra, Vivek Bajpai, Surya Rajan Selvam, Pedro Lei, Marianne E Bronner, and Stelios Andreadis. (2019). “Neural crest stem cells from human epidermis of aged donors maintain their multipotency in vitro and in vivo”. Scientific Methods 9, Article number: 9750. (link)
Koontz, Alison, “Through Genera and Generations:A Systematic Study of Elasmobranch-hosted Cestodes of the Indo-Pacific, with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships” (2016). University Scholar Projects. 30. (link)
Koontz, A. & J. Caira. (2016). Emendation of Carpobothrium (“Tetraphyllidea”) from Bamboosharks (Orectolobiformes: Hemiscyliidae) with Redescription of C. chiloscyllii and Description of a New Species from Borneo. Comparative Parasitology 82 (2). (link)
