User:Onco p53

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Hello, Onco_p53 is the user name for me: Bevan Weir. Onco means cancer as in Oncology, and p53 is a protein involved in causing / curing cancer. I invented this name early in my university life, my first degree was in Biotechnology.

I am from Auckland, New Zealand. My interest is in microbiology and my Wiki contributions reflect this, and my general interest in science.

I did my PhD studies on the rhizobia bacteria. I then (July 2008-July 2011) did a postdoc on a fungus called Colletotrichum (teleomorph: Glomerella).

My personal website is at: http://www.rhizobia.co.nz

Edits

A Magpie moth on my window. It is a NZ native day-flying moth

My Sandbox

As of 3 October 2010 I have made 5,372 edits.

• My 500th edit was uploading a better image for Nitrogen cycle
• My 1000th edit was a major update to Landcare Research
• My 1500th edit was removing redundant interwiki and linking Clostridium tetani in Tetanus
• And after that I lost count.

A German Wasp that I killed and photographed

Major contributions

• Luthite
• Lake Alta
• Agrobacterium
• Rhizobia
• Proteobacteria - many of the genera within this group, focus on taxonomy.
• Diazotrophs
• Fabaceae
• Nitrogen fixation
• Category:Nitrogen metabolism
• Phytoplasma
• Candidatus
• Green algae - latest taxonomy
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
• Category:Mythology_stubs - for some strange reason
• Magpie moth - found one of these on my window, so took a picture and wrote an article.

Useful links

• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags

Reminders for me

• Taxobox all Actinobacteria
• http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/externe/English/Projets/Projet_HF/organisme_HF.html
• add genome size info? from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genomes/index.html
• Taxbox New Zealand Trees
• http://doc.govt.nz/Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/006~Threatened-species/index.asp - conservation status NZ species