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Guy Plunkett III (aka GP3)
That's me on the right. My son Ben is the one on the left. |
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For a number of years I lead the sequence analysis and annotation team for the
UW Genome Project,
previously known as the E. coli genome project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. As such,
I was involved in the ongoing sequencing and comparative analysis of several additional enterobacterial
pathogens. I often point out that I got into this game not so much because there was a plan to
sequence E. coli, but because there was a plan to sequence E. coli --
i.e., sequencing per se was just a tool, but to have the entire genomic sequence of my favorite
organism available ... For more on my work, see my
"official" page.
I seemingly always wanted to be a scientist. At one time I dreamt of being an oceanographer
(no doubt a result of Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt!), but a winter crossing of the North Atlantic in a
troop transport ship at age 10 revealed a proneness to sea-sickness that killed that idea. Then I got a
microscope, and the microbial world joined the pantheon of dinosaurs and space ...
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More to come ... in the meantime, I'll use this space to post the results of those occasional web quizes I fall prey to (sometimes with additional related links). |
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| What American accent do you really have? |
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| Your accent is Northern, which used to be the media standard in the '50s and '60s. Your accent could either be Inland Northern (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo) or the more broadcasting-friendly Upstate NY/Western New England accent. If you have the Inland North accent, outsiders probably ask you a lot if you're from Chicago or Wisconsin.
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