Emily Blair
Profile
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Time ZonePacific
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OrganizationUniversity of California - Riverside
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RoleScientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online
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Research Interests (300 words)I am interested in how plants respond to abiotic stress. Specifically, I hope to further dissect the complex and fascinating relationship between plant circadian clocks and temperature stress. I focus mostly on Arabidopsis, but hope to examine rice and other crop plants as well. I examine this question through molecular and genetics techniques with bioinformatics for data analysis.
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Profile Question 1What lessons have you learned in your career about how science works?
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Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):The most important lesson I've learned so far is that an integral part of science is failure. It's extremely easy to miss a small detail of a complex protocol, which can ruin an experiment. However, it is important to learn from these moments. When this happens to me, I assess the protocol to see where I could have made a mistake, and then alter either my protocol or my technique to allow me to be more successful.
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Profile Question 2What is the coolest thing you have discovered or learned about plants?
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Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):There is a symbiotic relationship between acacia trees and ants that I think is really cool! The acacia tree provides a home for the ants and it produces a nectar that the ants can eat. In response, ants defend the acacia tree from herbivores, like elephants. Basically, if an elephant tries to eat the acacia tree, the ants all attack the elephant until it backs off!!
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Profile Question 3What is your favorite plant? Why?
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Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):I love citrus trees! My parents have an orange tree, a lemon tree, and a lime tree in their yard. The flowers are beautiful, and they smell amazing. The best part is the delicious fruit though; I love lemonade made from freshly picked lemons.
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AvailabilityI am NOT available, please temporarily remove me from the available mentor list
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Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?1
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Emily Blair
Hi everyone! I'm Emily Blair, and I'm a PhD student at UC Riverside. I study how plants respond to temperature stress. I'm also the liaison for this session so I'm checking in with all the groups periodically.
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Emily Blair
Hi everyone! I'm Emily Blair and I study how plants respond to temperature stress as a PhD student at UC Riverside. I'm also the liaison for this session so I'm checking on all the groups periodically to make sure everyone is…
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Emily Blair
Hi everyone! I'm Emily Blair. I'm a PhD student at UC Riverside studying how plants respond to temperature stress. I'm also the liaison for this session so I'm checking in periodically with all the groups.
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