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Nature 426, 501 (4 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/426501a

Joan Slonczewski: Stranger than fiction

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Joan Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and is also an acclaimed writer of science fiction (see Nature 405, 1001; 2000). Her novels include Brain Plague and A Door into Ocean.

Summarize yourself in the form of a title of a paper in Nature.Polish–Italian cross generates hybrid microbial scientist with aberrant phenotype.