Tim Beard

Postgraduate Researcher at Prifysgol Bangor. Plant geneticist, pathologist and microbiologist. Currently working with tomatoes and fungi of the genus Alternaria

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Two years ago today I collected my wee loveable instigator of chaos and adventure buddy 😍💚🥰

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@Debashi42744155 Already beginning to - the darkened circles towards the middle usually contain the conidiophore!

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Todays view through my microscope: The conidiophore of Alternaria solani. They're quite pretty, really...

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@Debashi42744155 Happens. I found it'll usually happen faster by reducing the amount of V8 in the agar. In terms of publishing, you might be able to get a paper out based on genetic data, but ideally you'd want conidiophore images. I'd just keep them growing - those images look like they're

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@Debashi42744155 Hi Debashish! I generally used agar plates containing V8 vegetable juice. 250 ml/litre juice/ddH2O. I found they sporulated a bit quicker if I reduced the amount of juice to 125 ml/litre. They'll do it quite happily on PDA too though. Sometimes it just takes waiting a while!

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Nice bit of woad down the allotment.

Resisting the urge to get naked and paint myself blue.

For now...

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@love_kitkat Me too! 😎

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

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MOTD no longer wants Centre forwards, just right wingers instead...

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@love_kitkat Awesome! You got this in the bag! 😎

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@tweetingnav Alan Mullery?

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@FYPFanzine 13 years ago we'd have willingly given assorted body parts for consistent Premier league "mid-table obscurity" whilst the club gets developed off pitch. It's a long term project, that's admittedly taken longer than anticipated, but we are gradually getting there!

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@AmieElle Who do they want to start ahead of him though? 😐

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@FYPFanzine Paddy Mac

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@ZJAyres Am on a boat on the thames and definitely feeling it!

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There's been a severe shortage of maths teachers for many years. Just who exactly will teach all these extra maths classes in Sunak's vision?

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@love_kitkat Llongyfarchiadau!!!

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Our new paper in @NewPhyt: Mapping the root systems of individual trees in a natural community using genotyping-by-sequencing https://t.co/x7RPHOivHP 1/8

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@ZJAyres I've done a few, but didn't charge. They've all been schools, charitable events, cultural/arts festivals though. As much as anything, a lot of the work I've done has been funded by the public, so the least I can do is talk to them about it. It would be different with corporate

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Am only still on here to watch the utter shitstorm continue...

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Buddy McGirt played a dangerous game there. That fight could have easily been scored against Whyte. Looking to improve your game is all well and good, but Dillian was missing everything that he does well...