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Eli Rodgers-Melnick

@elirm

Research Scientist at Corteva Agriscience - #genomics

 Johnston, IA
Joined January 2009
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“..whoever could make 2 ears of corn or 2 blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only 1 grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential serrvice to his country than the whole race of politicians put together” - Jonathan Swift #PAGXXVIII
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Pro-tip for computational folks attending animal talks - AI also refers to “artificial insemination”. Try not to confuse the 2. #GS #PAGXXVIII
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Statistical Learning challenge - predict wifi downtime at #PAGXXVIII based on tweet frequency
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Andreas Sjödin@druvus26 Sep 2012
Learn #R and #Python, and Have Fun Doing It zite.to/QkE1A9 #bioinformatics
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Will simulated beings in a universe simulation simulate their own universe? bit.ly/QCzmXl
Be careful - scammers are on the loose! phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2…
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Cyrus Samii@cdsamii24 Sep 2012
Good comments too | Grade inflation: why weren’t the instructors all giving all A’s already?? bit.ly/UxV9oA
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The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ23 Sep 2012
If medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America. on.wsj.com/QLWG5m
How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us

How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us

Medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets a week. Surgeon Marty Makary on five simple ways the health-care system can be made safer.

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#OWS Does hard work make the 1% the 1%? bit.ly/ONfUeE
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Biopython Project@Biopython23 Sep 2012
GenomeDiagram + Biopython MT @widdowquinn: blog post: automated selection of distinguishable colours for visualisation armchairbiology.blogspot.co.…
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#Politics, #Science, and a shout out to @ChrisMooney_ : exploring the Republican myth of economic causality: bit.ly/ONfUeE
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@JBYoder Read this as Morgan Freeman originally; now I'm stuck on the idea.
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Leonid Kruglyak@leonidkruglyak19 Sep 2012
Been waitinf this one! RT @WvSchaik: latest Lenski paper w explanation of evolution of citrate utilization in E. coli goo.gl/O3Kb4
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Ed Yong is not here
@edyong20916 Sep 2012
RT @sohkamyung @edyong209 Venus flytrap digestive enzymes evolved from ones to fight pathogens asbmb.org/News.aspx?id=17935
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Mariette DiChristina@mdichristina15 Sep 2012
RT @brainpicker: Marie Curie learned to swim in her 50s, Tolstoy to ride a bike at 67, and other late-blooming skills j.mp/QP5N7i
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Jonathan Eisen
@phylogenomics14 Sep 2012
100k genome project -- microbes -- food -- health -- open government -- vote for it here hhs.gov/open/initiatives/hhs…
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#Evolution FTW. Neofunctionaliztion of gene duplicate enables novel metabolic pathway. 1.usa.gov/PwDKtJ
MIT Predicts That World Economy Will Collapse By 2030 pulse.me/s/7QdDD
Scientists track the evolution of an epidemic to show how bacteria adapt | Not Exactly Rocket Science pulse.me/s/37KMs
I've been waiting for this. Easily 're-programmable cells' could be key in creation of new life forms pulse.me/s/33ekv
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