• Question: is there any more things you would like to study apart fronm the thing you doing know

    Asked by hannah27897 to Daniel, Derek, Ian, Phil, Upul on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Derek Mann answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Well we are now starting to study cancer which is a new thing for me and the lab. But if it was something completely new and if I could have a better head for maths then it would be astrophysics!

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      Daniel Mietchen answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Sure, many. For instance, I would like to know whether some species of snow algae – which occurs in both the Arctic and Antarctic as well as the Himalaya – also occurs in the snow fields on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. And if so, how did they get there? A research proposal on this topic has been rejected, as have others on what anatomical structures allow some species of birds and mammals to imitate sounds, or on how the brain of the ancestors of living primates looked like.

      Still largely unexplored is the deep sea, and it would be interesting to find out how some species that can live both on the bottom and near the surface of the sea change their behaviour with depth, and whether all of these changes are purely due to the shifting conditions of the physical environment or at least in part due to changes in behaviour of the other species they interact with in different depths.

      We currently do not have a precise idea why only a rather small portion of our DNA codes for genes, and what the functions of the remaining portion are.

      On a more general note, I would like to study what the best system would be to organize science efficiently on a global scale.

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      Ian Sillett answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I’d love to study more environmental science and or evolutionary biology. I read about these things a lot in my spare time but actually studying them would be a big commitment.

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