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Today, she is one of only a handful of female scorpion biologists in the world and has earned the nickname “The Scorpion Queen.” At 40 years old she is the Curator of Arachnology at California Academy of Sciences, a public museum and research institute that’s both the first and oldest natural history museum west of the eastern seaboard.
As the Academy’s Assistant Curator and Schlinger Chair of Arachnology, Lauren Esposito studies the processes and patterns of evolution in spiders and scorpions.
She has also studied the uses of scorpion venom in the context of cancer research and medication. In 2017 she discovered three new species and two new genera of club-tailed scorpions, detecting the scorpions using ultraviolet lights that excite a fluorescent dye in the scorpion armour.
Jul 24, 2023 · Scorpions: They're found pretty much everywhere, and new species are being identified all the time. Arachnologist Lauren Esposito says there's a lot to love about this oft-misunderstood...
Sep 26, 2022 · Working with Lauren Esposito, an arachnology curator at the California Academy of Sciences, Forbes and Jain went through all the official steps required to describe a new species, including...
As the Academy’s Assistant Curator and Schlinger Chair of Arachnology, Lauren Esposito studies the processes and patterns of evolution in spiders and scorpions.
Jul 24, 2017 · Dr. Lauren Esposito, one of the world’s only female scorpion biologists, and her colleagues describe two new genera and three new species of Earth’s oldest living, land-based arthropods.
