Hello everybody!
My name is Dakota and I first heard about Steemit from a friend of mine. I looked more into the platform and thought to myself "this is one of hell of a great thing." The same friend also got me in cryptocurrencies awhile back, we are generally pretty bored while deployed...
A little about myself, I am overall science enthusiast with a background in Biology and Chemistry. I currently perform research on ticks and tick-borne infections. Aside from academia, I enjoy hiking and exploring my oldest daughter and look forward to continuing this in the spring, but with a GoPro to capture all the shenanigans and great views. I am also an avid gamer when I find the time.
I have always wanted to write blogs mainly aimed at education and research. I see Steemit as the perfect opportunity to start just that.
Ixodes scapularis (female) or commonly known as the black-legged deer tick -Courtesy of I
I wanted to keep this short and sweet, hope you enjoyed hearing about me, (I don't like bragging or talking about myself) I look forward to posting in the future and hopefully you might too.
Thanks for looking,
-Dakota
Welcome to Steemit! I'll look forward to your next posts!
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@bigdude Thank you for the wonderful words of motivation. I intend to do just that
welcome to steemit!! feel free to visit my blog as well... specially if you want to know more about Brazil!! Cheers
@samillee Thanks! I will and I have a few acquaintances in Brazil that do research, it's such a beautiful country. Hopefully, one day I will get to visit :)
@arvindkumar Thank you!
Hello and welcome to Steemit!
Looking forward to your posts, that will probably be about science, biology and hopefully ticks. I am biologist myself, working on yeast at the moment and actually never heard about anyone working with ticks, haha :D
Haha! That is fantastic, what exactly with yeast? Brewing? cultures?
There aren't many of us that work directly with ticks from an organism perspective, but there are tons that work with the diseases and other issues they cause. I'll look forward to your posts as well
Well, I am currently working with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and try to understand nucleo-mitochondrial communication. Haha, but yeast tend to get a bit boring after time. In the future I plan to maybe work with ants or some social insects. :)
Welcome to Steemit, I am also new. Great job with the post
Welcome and thank you, us little guys gotta stick together