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| bio | website | phyta.org |
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| location | Cambridge, UK | |
| age | 27 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | 39 mins ago | |
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PhD student in Plant Sciences at Cambridge working on dissecting the molecular basis of C4 photosynthesis. Formerly plant biologist, data analyst, bioinformatician and programmer at the Millennium Seed Bank.
My expertise is in plant biology, especially:
- Seed biology, dormancy and germination
- C4 photosynthesis and carbon fixation/concentrating mechanisms in general
- Environmental plant physiology
- Molecular biology of plant organogenesis, i.e. organ patterning, auxin, shoot and root branching
I write software in Objective-C and Python, and I have some experience with JS and data vis libraries like the beautiful D3.js, and with R.
If you tag a question with plant-physiology or botany, it will get my attention.
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Jul 25 |
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Are mature trees as susceptible to mutation from exposure to radiation as seedlings? edited title |
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Jul 25 |
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Are mature trees as susceptible to mutation from exposure to radiation as seedlings? All trees are plants, I'll rephrase the question. Please let me know if it doesn't meet your intentions. |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on mathematical-models tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on mathematical-models tag wiki |
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Jul 25 |
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Coincidence that navel is near the womb? @nico unless the locus for naval position wasn't sex linked, in which case males would have it in the same place as a side effect of selection for that location in females... |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on theoretical-biology tag wiki |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on theoretical-biology tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on protocol tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on marine-biology tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on marine-biology tag wiki |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on human-genome tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on gene-regulation tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on development tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 24 |
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Is sperm contagious? Most airborne infectious pathogens (including flu and common cold) will not be sexually transmissible. |
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Jul 24 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on reflexes tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 24 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on renal-physiology tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 24 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on brain tag wiki excerpt |
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Jul 23 |
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Does body mass have a bearing on reflex speed? Do you have some reason to suspect that it would be slower? |
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Jul 23 |
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Why insects are so energy-efficient while flying? @AdolfoPerez I agree it's a shame that these sorts of questions get sidelined, but the idea is to prevent off-topic questions from diluting the question pool and discouraging expert participation. We have to draw the line somewhere - if you can phrase a question so that the biology part of it is central it's usually fine here :) |
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Jul 23 |
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How does evolution produce complex organs @rwst it's not a personal attack, it's just that the interesting point you've made (that complex phenotypes can appear rapidly in evolution due to master switches) does not demonstrate that organs arise suddenly, but that they can change form quite suddenly. It doesn't answer the question. It remains that gradual accumulation of small changes still accounts for evolution of the molecular networks which might be rearranged by a master switch mutation. For what it's worth, I do think your answer was interesting :). Please don't stop contributing just because of this. |
