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A PhD student with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and USyd. Working on genetics behind Myrtle rust and paperbarks for restoration.
Tldr: #wetlands #plantdisease #genetics #botany #restoration #ecology
Karina Guo
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But importantly, those strong peaks give us a good predictive model.
A genomic prediction model that allows us to produce an genetically expected score for disease resistance in seedlings and seed lots - forming the basis of my doctorate... more restoration ecology work to come in the soon future!
Supporting myrtle rust restoration in a foundation wetland species using genomics! New paper out, involving whole genome sequencing, rust assays, population genetics... From barely anything known of this species to quite something! doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 🧪
Loving the summer sea... A blue button, gorgeous but apparently also a sign of CC
Karina Guo
Morning all, found a new friend. Anyone got an ID on this beauty? For the first time iNaturalist wasn't of help
#moths #teammoth
First time at the GRC & GRS next month. Looking forward to meeting all the amazing minds and sharing my own piece of work. I've heard amazing things about this conference! 🌿
Key findings: Major genes associated with myrtle rust resistance!
Look at those peaks on the Manhattan plot (the higher the peaks = the stronger the association). It definitely warrants further investigation, and we've only scraped the surface of it's investigation in this study.
Impressed at the ability for a smartphone camera (S24) to capture the night sky. All it took was a dark night and a 24s exposure
#astrophotography #photography #nature
Blessed with a good day of birding. Sat and watched the birds come and go, even a kangaroo with their joey came and had a drink. Everyone gotta go sit in nature and reflect on their ecosystems every now and then.
Pictured: black necked stork, glossy ibis, Lantham's snipe, red backed fairywren
Karina Guo
Karina Guo
After a few years of benign neglect I am rebuilding bionames.org, which is a database of 5.4 million taxonomomic names for animals, linked to half a million DOIs and 278K PDFs. Dream is for every species name to be linked to its original publication using a persistent identifier #PID
Karina Guo
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
