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1-min video
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Peptide
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Sung to the tune of Vance Joy's Riptide this parody by Dr Andy Walker and the King lab at CIPPS communicates the exciting work of discovering new medicines and eco-friendly pesticides from Australia’s amazing venomous flora and fauna.
Plant Success
Actual gene network and conspiracy theory?
Created using Biorender to bring all the images together incorporating the classic Spiderman pointing meme between a simple gene network and a conspiracy theory board discussing things like aliens. This meme was inspired based off my PhD research which inferred bud dormancy gene regulatory networks by utilising mathematical algorithms on gene expression data. Credits to each individual photo is placed below: (1) Spider-man, episode 19b "Double Identity", 1967. (2) The curious case of conspiracy theories, an article from the Particle.
Plant Success
The "scientist" misconception
It's always a bit of fun to tell people that you work in science when their interpretation of that may be quite far from the day-to-day reality of what you get up to. Every contaminated agar plate and batch of poor quality plants gets us a bit closer to actually figuring something interesting out, and we enjoy the work enough to keep coming back to it despite the setbacks. Made using procreate, no AI used.
Plants for Space
Expectation vs reality
Created on an iPhone using screen shots of my personal qRT PCR data from an Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 12K Flex Real Time PCR System. I was hoping to find ethylene responsive gene orthologues between the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse ear cress to its friends) and Lactuca sativa (lettuce). Both plants were being treated with ethylene to shorten root growth whilst (hoping to) keeping shoot growth 'normal'. If I found orthologues maybe it would inform future studies for crop optimization, especially for protected cropping in an uncertain climate or maybe in Space where resource constraints are a reality. The bottom panel is me testing for ethylene response related gene expression and the top panel is exactly the same. Same genes, same samples, same user, equipment, reagents, plants, same everything, only one hour apart. What happened? Who is to say really.
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brilliant and fun
8 Weeks