Questions Not Answered by team Invertebrate Investigators

• What part of the Mallee fowl’s beak allows it to test the temperature of their nests? (No answers)
• What is the species you are most excited to investigate? (1 answers)
• What’s the most interesting species you’ve studied? (1 answers)
• What size does Team Marine’s samples pieces need to be? (No answers)
• What is the Devil’s Coach Horse’s closed relative? (1 answers)
• What is everyone’s favourite bug? (1 answers)
• What are the potential uses of sequenced DNA in medicine? (No answers)
• What drew you the species that you study? (1 answers)
• What A-Level results did you get? (1 answers)
• Is this always what you wanted to do?? (1 answers)
• how does nitrogen and dry ice preserve dna ? (1 answers)
• What degree did you study at university and how long did it take? (1 answers)
• What is the most interesting thing you have seen under the microscope? (1 answers)
• How could I study species from my home (1 answers)
• What are the further career opportunities after studying and researching? (1 answers)
• what adaptation of any animal interests you the most? (No answers)
• Are there any documentaries about this you could recommend? (No answers)
• How are protists such as malaria isolated for experiments? (No answers)
• what is your favourite practical experiment that you have completed? (No answers)
• if you could investigate one ecosystem what would you choose? (No answers)
• How would you encourage others to raise awareness about certain problems? (No answers)
• What would you consider to be the biggest breakthrough so far? (No answers)
• What further research could be done in the future and what are you currently working on? (No answers)
• How do you extract DNA? (No answers)
• What areas of the UK is the project focusing on? (No answers)
• What is your favourite species (No answers)
• What methods are used to sample wildcat? (No answers)
• what university did you attend? (No answers)
• Why is it important that we are always studying species (No answers)
• what is the most effective way of extracting genetic material from viruses? (No answers)
• what is the most effective way of extracting genetic material from bacteria? (No answers)
• what is the most effective way of extracting DNA from mammals? (No answers)
• what is the most effective way of extracting DNA from fungi? (No answers)
• what is the most effective way of extracting DNA from protists? (No answers)
• Why do the green algae carry excess sugars in their cells? (No answers)
• What is your favourite microorganism? (No answers)
• Which species genome has been the most interesting to work on? (No answers)
• What is the most interesting place your work has lead you to? :) (No answers)
• Hi! What was the first species genome you ever worked on? (No answers)
• how did you get into this job? (No answers)
• What is the most complex stage of genome sequencing? (No answers)
• How did you end up in this career path? (No answers)
• is there any specific training you take or have taken in this project? (No answers)
• Would you recommend young people to become more interested in our planet? (No answers)
• What was your most important scientific finding? Your most surprising finding? (No answers)
• What area of biology do you specialise in?? (No answers)
• What methods do you use when getting the DNA of grey squirrels? (No answers)
• why was biology your fav subject at school? (No answers)
• How do you collect the DNA sequences? (No answers)
• How many species would you say there are left to discover? Will we ever be able to identify all of the world’s (No answers)
• What did the early type of DNA extraction look like or has the same technique been used since it’s discovery? (No answers)
• How often do you travel from one area to a new area of research? (No answers)
• Why would be the best and worst parts of your job? (No answers)
• Why do you think conservation is important (No answers)
• Why do you think the work you are doing is important? (No answers)
• What’s the most challenging problems you’ve faced while carrying out your research/work? (No answers)
• Which type of DNA sequencing is most efficient and provides a more in depth analysis? (No answers)
• What has been the biggest set back you have faced with your research so far ? (No answers)
• Where’s the most interesting place you’ve been when researching? (No answers)
• How can we actually identify which bases are which in a DNA sequence? Do they each have specific parts that stand out (No answers)
• What extraction methods do you use? (1 answers)
• How do Bass cave snails (Otina ovata) reproduce? (No answers)
• how did you get into a career in research? (No answers)
• How long can a brain live while detached from its body? (No answers)
• How do red squirrels survive in the wild? (No answers)
• How long does it take to map a genome (No answers)
• How do red squirrels survive through winter? (No answers)
• What did you study at University? (No answers)
• How do you extract DNA from a moth? (No answers)
• How do you get DNA from an otter? Is it from their blood or fur? (No answers)
• what is the most interesting part of your job? (No answers)
• where do animals get there scientific names from (No answers)
• how important is chemistry at a-level when it comes to becoming a biologist (No answers)
• What specific event or thing inspired you to become a biologist? (No answers)
• What inspired you to become a part of the Darwin Tree of Life project? (No answers)
• If dealing with species able to quickly run or fly, such as a garden bumblebee, does it take a while to catch them in (No answers)
• If the future population size of the grey wolf was too increase further, would this become a threat to species such as (No answers)
• What would say is the best part of your position as a researcher? (No answers)
• How often do you find new species? (No answers)
• What are the steps you take to identifying a species and if it’s a new species how do you approach the situation and (No answers)
• If you had unlimited time, money and space to build the perfect garden, which biome would you put it in? And why? (No answers)
• As humans evolved from a single cell into multi-cellular organisms, is it possible for protists to evolve and become (No answers)
• On average, how long is the process on DNA barcoding? Does it differ depending on certain species? (No answers)
• What happens to the specimens you obtain, are they killed? (No answers)
• what made you want to do what you do? (No answers)
• What is the most interesting thing you have worked on? (No answers)
• what is the Darwin Tree of Life about? (No answers)
• do we really share DNA with a banana (No answers)
• Hi, why is it important to find out the genome sequence of different organisms? (No answers)
• What is your research project? (No answers)
• How do you sequence genomes (No answers)
• Do you currently own a horse? (No answers)
• What does a conservation biologist do? (1 answers)
• Is there any specific obstacle you really hope you do not have to face? (1 answers)
• How long have you worked in the field you work in? (2 answers)
• When did you leave your parents? (3 answers)
• Have you ever worked with an endangered species? (2 answers)
• What got you into science? (2 answers)
• What is the most important animal to you and why. (2 answers)
• Hello Laura! I was on the talk yesterday about Preserving biodiversity through genomes and I asked a question about (No answers)