Bryan Duoto
bryanduoto.bsky.social
Bryan Duoto
@bryanduoto.bsky.social
"Full Stack" Biologist, NanoEngineer, and Data Scientist. Professional fish, recovering surfer, golf addict, and nature freak. Opinions are my own.
I've always struggled with understanding other scientists who only like their specialization and little else.

Do other people like to be "generalists" or "generalist-specialists?" What are your sub-specialities and other insterests?
December 23, 2024 at 5:29 AM
It's likely that it was also transported to Europe after the 15th century. Check out one of the papers here 2/2

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The Phylogeography of Potato Virus X Shows the Fingerprints of Its Human Vector
Potato virus X (PVX) occurs worldwide and causes an important potato disease. Complete PVX genomes were obtained from 326 new isolates from Peru, which is within the potato crop′s main domestication c...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 12, 2024 at 8:13 PM
@neuronick.bsky.social had a great post on how potatoes were the first GMO tech, which helped the Incan empire flourish.

Their domestication also coincided with Potato Virus X, the subject of my thesis. It coemerged with the domestication of the potato 9,000 years ago 1/2.
December 12, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Anyone have those days where you wake up and are baffled by some of the weirdness in biology?

Like how most viruses have converged into just a few shapes over millions of years but some of these weirdos out here looking like candy corn?

Rabies is definitely the scariest candy corn. 🌽
December 4, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Hey Bluesky, what's up? I'm Bryan and my background is a combo of Bio, AI, and NanoEngineering. I'm an epiphany junkie, a tool builder, and a relentlessly curious life scientist.
November 24, 2024 at 4:01 AM