• Question: How did you get interested in this and what are you planning to research in the future?

    Asked by james chao to Canada Goose on 9 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Canada Goose

      Canada Goose answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      Hi James, I got really interested in birds when I was about 9 and started bird watching, joined guided walks and started going to local YOC (young section of the RSPB) group meetings.
      I got interested in phenotyping because I always wanted to find out how things worked, this led me to physiology (how the body works) and neuroscience (how the brain works – but this was restricted to how the spinal cord works, how oxygen receptors work and how the auditory – hearing – system works). This took me to phenotyping ‘how does the body work without a specific gene’?

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  • Photo: Tree Lichen

    Tree Lichen commented on :

    Not the way that normally is the case! I enjoyed taking photos of Lichens in the first instance but what really ignited my interest was finding a colony of Cup Lichens growing in my Lawn about 20 years ago (see my photo in my Profile page- I describe them as looking like a Radio Telescope). I even tried to transplant them when I moved house but they did not like that! From there I read about their long evolutionary history and my interest really kicked off once I realised how ancient they were!