Author Archives: Ryan

The small RNA paper is completed and out for early access! Find it here.

After graduating last June, I hightailed it to my new position at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was pretty sure I had moved as far away as possible from National League baseball. Since the the poor hapless … Continue reading →

Another old photo that I have come across while going through some  things. This is Selaginella moellendorffii, a plant that I spent the first couple years of my Ph.D. studying. There are a number of attributes that make this plant scientifically … Continue reading →

And on a paper that was submitted only 8 days after ours was first published online. It is all grown up!

 Last monday we published our paper describing our gene activity in the developing seed of Arabidopsis.  Thanks to everyone who worked on this. We bit off quite a bit with this project, and as a new grad student I had … Continue reading →

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One of the side effects of being hip deep in writing your dissertation is that you run across material from your research that never made it into a publication. What gets published is usually just the tip of the iceberg. … Continue reading →

I originally pasted this on my Facebook account in response to some friends who asked my opinion on Prop 37 (The GMO labeling law in California). Some people were looking to share it more easily so it has a more … Continue reading →

Today while writing something up. I had to look up how to spell the word gobbledygook. At which point I realized that if there is a word where how you spell it really dosen’t matter, this would be it.