User:Poetry of Reality

Hello world!

Personal
I am a student at a university studying Biology and Biochemistry. I am interested in the origin of life on earth and plan to focus my research on the first life molecules, once landing a professional job. Specifically, I wold like to better understand how the first biological molecules developed their chirality and by what enantioselective mechanism did they arrive. I would also like to better understand how the first self replicating molecules originated. Until then, my research has primarily focused on the evolution of thermal acclimation capacity. To study this, I have used the model organism Drosophila melanogaster and, more recently, Armadillidium vulgare. We are moving away from the widely accepted beneficial acclimation hypothesis and taking a mathematical approach to studying how environmental variation has shaped thermal performance curves and, in turn, how this affects the capacity for acclimation.

Chemistry
My primary interest for joining the Wikipedia editing world is to help provide better information in the area of chemistry. Specifically, I would like to aid in building the chemical information database which provides information such as formula, structure, density, and melting point on a wide variety of chemicals. As a student, I found great value in the ease of access that Wikipedia provided as a reference for chemical information. While information is already on a wide variety of chemicals, there are still thousands of common reagents that are missing. My focus will be to increase the number of articles providing valuable information about chemicals to students and professionals alike. If you are involved in building chemical the chemical databases, please contact me and let me know how I can be of more help.

Other
I am very passionate about science in general and especially the public understanding of science. I plan to work on articles on topics in science that I have developed somewhat of an expertise in during my many years as a student.