User:Mad Price Ball

Madeleine Price Ball

Personal web page: http://mad.printf.net

Blog: http://www.madprime.org

My background: I'm a graduate student in George Church's lab, which specializes in genomics and biotechnology.

Working on major changes to /Genetics

Work area: /Draft

Things I want

This is sort of a to-do list for myself, but others are welcome to do it for me!

needed pages / pages that need improvement

• History of genetics -- timelines need to be expanded into prose
• Human genetics -- this page is awful, it sorely needs someone to contribute information and put confusing pieces of information into context.

images I want

• Image of DNA replication like this one: [1], but just slightly corrected to show okazaki fragments since polymerization doesn't occur in 3' to 5' direction.

Articles I've worked on

Some articles I've done major rewriting on:

• Genetics - worked real hard on this one!
• Genetic recombination
• Polymerase chain reaction
• Quantification of nucleic acids

Articles I made:

• PCR optimization - I made this because I wanted to move optimization trivia away from the main PCR article

Images I've made

Some photos and SVG images I made with Inkscape... feel free to suggest other SVG images I could make!

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  The chemical structure of DNA
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  Griffith's experiment illustration
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  illustration of four PCR cycles
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  A Punnett square, cross between pea plants heterozygous for purple (B) and white (b) blossoms.
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  An image of the genetic code, DNA->RNA->protein
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  K12 E coli colonies on a plate of agar.
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  Diagram illustrating the Luria-Delbrück experiment, suggested by ragesoss.
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  Strip of eight PCR tubes with 100μl reactions.
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  Eukaryotic phylogenetic tree.
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  Another tree I tried making.