Profile

• Time Zone

  Central

  
  
• Organization

  Christian Brothers University

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  I study Queen Anne's lace, or wild carrot, genetics. I use this species to study mitochondrial dynamics within the plant and from generation to generation

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What is best about being a scientist?

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

  Science is great in that you can ask questions, design ways to answer those questions. The best part of being a scientist is when a series of questions is answered and you get to tell a cool story about what you learned.

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  When and why did you decide to go into a science career?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):

  I began school as a nursing student, but when I took Human Anatomy and Physiology I realized that I loved biology, rather than taking care of people, I wanted to discover cool things about living things.

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  Can you describe your attitude toward science when you were in high school?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):

  I loved science in high school. I took Biology II as a senior elective because I loved it so much. That class was cool because half of it was Zoology and half was Botany. I learned some really great things in that class, and my teach was pretty amazing too!

  
  
• Availability

  I am currently available for mentoring, please send me team match invitations

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

  2

  
  

Recent Posts

hvchsluccispring2018 project 3 Adam J Ramsey Apr 16, 2018

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Hi group!

Excellent news on starting your projects. Well, think about could affect growth of plants in nature. I'm sure you know the basics of what plants need: water, nutrients, and sunlight. It seems you have added nutrients as a…

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Hi group!

Excellent news on starting your projects. Well, think about could affect growth of plants in nature. I'm sure you know the basics of what plants need: water, nutrients, and sunlight. It seems you have added nutrients as a fertilizer, and I'm sure you are giving them water and sunlight, right?

So, other things do affect growth of plants. Those basic requirements allow plants to grow, but you can slow down the growth by adding things that plants don't like much, such as salt. Too much salt can kill plants, just as too much fertilizer or water can!

Alternatively, you could give your plants different amounts of the basic requirements: you could alter the amount of sunlight that the plants get, or the amount of water you give them. Too much can kill plants, and too little can slow their growth rates.

Let me know what you decide to do!

hvchsluccispring2018 project 3 Adam J Ramsey Apr 5, 2018

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Hello Amanda, Max, and Jackson! 

I'm very happy to help you out with your project this semester. Genetics and plants are pretty neat, if I may say so - you'll have a great time working on this project.

I'm in the last year of…

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Hello Amanda, Max, and Jackson! 

I'm very happy to help you out with your project this semester. Genetics and plants are pretty neat, if I may say so - you'll have a great time working on this project.

I'm in the last year of my PhD at the University of Memphis. I study carrot genetics, and in particular, mitochondrial genetics. There are some really neat things about carrots which make their mitochondria very cool to study. 

Let me know when you start the project and what sorts of questions you have; I'm here to help!

We Heart Plants Adam J Ramsey Dec 13, 2017

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Hey team!

I just read over your report, and I'm very impressed. You all seemed to have learned how to perform and experiment quite well, and your analysis of the data is spot on. Let me know how if there are any next steps for you and how…

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Hey team!

I just read over your report, and I'm very impressed. You all seemed to have learned how to perform and experiment quite well, and your analysis of the data is spot on. Let me know how if there are any next steps for you and how they go! Do you have to present your project and findings to your class?

Best,

Adam