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  Eastern

  
  
• Organization

  University of Georgia - Athens

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  I study the molecular mechanisms of bacterial plant disease and host resistance and have a vested interest in enhancing pre-graduate STUDENT competencies in the principles of plant disease. I am also developing several plant pathology lesson plans for use in middle and High Schools

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What is best about being a scientist?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):

  solving mysteries about the natural world

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  What is your favorite plant? Why?

  
  
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  Lately it's been onion. It's such an interesting system for studying disease. Those same chemicals that give onion and garlic their characteristic flavors and odors are also important for protection against bacteria.

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  What lessons have you learned in your career about how science works?

  
  
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  If you go into science you'll be wrong a lot and things won't work the way you think they will. That's part of the fun! Getting to be surprised by the real answer is really satisfying.

  
  
• Videoconference Ability

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• Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?

  1

  
  

Recent Posts

Scientific Seedums Brian Kvitko Mar 22 at 01:38pm

Hi! I think for this data a line graph would be perfect. You'll want to figure out the number of days after you planted the seeds for each of your measurements.

Scientific Seedums Brian Kvitko Mar 22 at 01:16pm

Overwatering seems like a good hypothesis. While it's easy to just give the plants the same amount of water, it's not as controlled as it seems. The real goal is to have the same amount of soil moisture. Maybe you could weigh the cups and…

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Overwatering seems like a good hypothesis. While it's easy to just give the plants the same amount of water, it's not as controlled as it seems. The real goal is to have the same amount of soil moisture. Maybe you could weigh the cups and see if the "normal light" plant is heavier which would be consistent with there being extra water there. It's also possible the "normal light" is still not as much light as the plants would prefer so even they are a bit unhealthy.

Scientific Seedums Brian Kvitko Mar 19 at 01:23pm

Very neat. what do you think it means? Also I know it's too late for setting up another control but how could your test your hypothesis that the light is responsible for the soil drying out and that it isn't the larger plant taking more…

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Very neat. what do you think it means? Also I know it's too late for setting up another control but how could your test your hypothesis that the light is responsible for the soil drying out and that it isn't the larger plant taking more water out of the soil?