Dr. Michelle Quigley

Assistant Research Professor at Center for Quantitative Imaging at Penn State. Views are my own.

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Citrus CT work.

[Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 @plantspplplanet]

And we published a virtual issue, Fruit in Focus. Check out the Editorial by @zoemig, @phylofeast, and @ewarschefsky 👇

https://t.co/XSF4JtJE7P

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@jackcschultz Interesting!

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@CherrityG Yes. It happened with my PhD set. It was a data read problem, where it was not reading the data correctly for some reason. I had to pull my data into Excel, delete them from the data, save the new dataset, and then re-input it into R-studio.

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Is this some weird alien landscape? The surface of an asteroid? Nope, this is a CT scan of a Brazil nut. I love how the crevasses in the nut really show in the scan.

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@CherrityG @aeharkess @hudsonalpha Congrats, @CherrityG! Well deserved.

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@elizabethmunch Well deserved congratulations to Erik!

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CT scan of an almond. The fibrous material in the shell shows up very nicely. There is also a double nut in this almond. Almonds are not true nuts, but drupes.

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CT scan of a hazelnut, one of my favorite nuts. Much to my disappointment, this nut failed to develop.

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@CADL_LocalHist @elizabethmunch @GardensMsu Crassula Gollum is the genus and species name.

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@CADL_LocalHist @elizabethmunch @GardensMsu Sure looks like the one I scanned, only smaller.

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@elizabethmunch @CADL_LocalHist @GardensMsu This might be one of my favorite succulents. I called it Shrek ears when I first saw it, but its common name is Ogre ears.

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@elizabethmunch @CADL_LocalHist Like this cool succulent. Many thanks to @GardensMsu for access to their awesome collection. #DigLansing

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In the language of flowers, a dark crimson rose is a sign of mourning. Classes may have restarted, but we are still mourning. The three lives needlessly cut short. Our sense of normalcy. The students who may never come back.

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@elizabethmunch Howl's Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones and the other two books in the series. It is very different from the Ghibli film, but Sophie and her sisters are the main characters and Howl is fairly useless.

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A CT scan of a nut that out of its shell looks very similar to a walnut, the pecan. Inside their shells, there is no mistaking a walnut and a pecan.

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@elizabethmunch @dccmath Price of living in the 'burbs...slow internet. lol

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@elizabethmunch @dccmath Just upgraded my internet and the tech said AT&T is in process of bringing fiber to Lansing in the next year...not sure if that includes East Lansing, though.

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I just finished spending a large amount of time looking at walnuts scanned via CT for a project with Pat Brown at UC Davis. Although this walnut is a higher resolution scan than the ones I was looking at and I got to eat this one after it was scanned.

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CT scan of a sprouting potato. In the scan you can see where the new sprouts and roots growing along with how the potato is shrinking as resources are being used to feed the new growth.