Jennifer Frazer is a freelance science writer and blogger at Scientific American where she writes the Artful Amoeba blog. Frazer won the 2007 AAAS Science Journalism Award for her stories on elk deaths in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. 

Thesis: Mold Fever: How a Bizarre Life Form Penetrated Popular Consciousness and Launched a Creeping Hysteria

Recent Publications Include:

• The Great Whale Conveyor Belt
• Predatory Bacteria Are Fierce, Ballistic and Full of Potential
• Fungi Might Have Helped Drag the Planet Out of Its ‘Snowball Earth’ Phase
• One Head, 1,000 Rear Ends: The Tale of a Deeply Weird Worm
• 100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated