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My Research Question

Posted by Margaret Cinderella on 2009-07-07 in Butterflies, Cinderella, Geometric-Morphometrics, Image-Manipulation, Math, MATLAB, Nijhout, Thin-Plate-Spline
My question is very simple: How strongly do mitotic density and axis contribute to shape change in the imaginal disks throughout caterpillar development?
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Expectations

Posted by Margaret Cinderella on 2009-06-22 in butterflies, cinderella, dissection, nijhout, research-expectations, spaghetti
I’m becoming more passionate about my labwork without really realizing it – I dissect caterpillars at work and come home to my pet caterpillar, now a pet pupa (He/She will become a butterfly in 8-10 days!). I boil spaghetti in exactly 500 millimolar sodium concentration.
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Moving at Warp Speed

Posted by Margaret Cinderella on 2009-06-13 in butterflies, Cinderella, development, dissection, Manduca, MATLAB, Nijhout, Precis, warp
So far I have crashed Matlab at least twice, something I never managed to accomplish while writing code for anything else.
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