manticore Posted July 26, 2015 Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 with october 2015 i will start a master degree in biology specializing directly on mosses. I already have more than 30 species and soon there will be more than 10 fissidens species in my colection. i would kindly cooperate with anyone that has nice fissidens species but also other aquatic mosses, and does not exactly know what he has. simply wirte me and maybe we will find a way to cooperate. MableBile, High5's, Vinn and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve R. Posted July 26, 2015 Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 Awesome. Congrats. You are already an expert. What place? Do you know what your project will be about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wygglz Posted July 26, 2015 Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 Congratulations! That is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manticore Posted July 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 hi there, the course is called sistemic ecology, but i already talked with my former professor (PhD in determining mosses with over 20 years experience). i talked clearly that the direction is "aquatic mosses, especially the genus Fissidens" and the project will be "in vitro cultures of the fissidens genus". but beyond doing this, for me is important to get there complete skills to scientifically determin any moss species. it is in Romania, we have here a good tradition over several generations (since at least 1880) on this domain of classifying mosses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve R. Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Cool. Hopefully you will learn PCR, sequencing and phylogenetic analyses to help determining the species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manticore Posted July 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 we do not have that tehnology here, i do not know what relations the university has in that domain, we had some projects with PCR on bombina hybrids with munich university almost 20 years ago, but PCR is not directly at the university where i will study. it will be the absolute classical way. but with some really good books, classical is also ok. it will be maybe difficult in the ideea that slowly interesting specimens from tropical regions are coming to me (like idduki and bhagamandala), but i am confident that the most things will be manageable. if not i wil contact some friends and we will go also on PCR analysis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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