User:Sulanegripes

You can reach me directly at charlesdashd at gmail.

Bio

I am trained in botany and work as a scientist, with expertise in the use of DNA (and RNA) sequence data to reconstruct evolutionary history. My work primarily investigates the early evolutionary history of photosynthetic life, including plants and photosynthetic microorganisms, be they eukaryotic, bacterial, or archaeal.

I received a Bachelor's degree in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I worked briefly as an instrument technician in a mass spectrometry lab before receiving my Ph.D. I did postdoctoral work both at U.W. Madison and at Indiana University. I have received funding from the USA National Science Foundation (NSF), and from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

In addition to my professional expertise I have personal interests in photography, videography, calligraphy, and cuisine to name a few.

Languages I am a native speaker of English. I have minimal other language skills, but do understand simple, classroom Spanish, and a bit of Botanical Latin, Portuguese and Italian.

To Do List Articles related to my professional expertise

Update Coleochaete Update Chaetosphaeridium

Articles related to some of my other interests

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I support the dual licensing -- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GFDL -- that is standard in Wikipedia, but have qualms about multi-licensing, both because it can make things really confusing, and because under some circumstances I feel it could lead to abuses.