Adaptive Modelling Club

Phd student in Earth system science

Piotr Bentkowski

Grand Vizier

Theoretical biologist

PhD - 'The Virtual Prokaryote'

I am a PhD student working in evolutionary biology now. My project aims at building a model of interactions between an evolving community of prokaryotes and their environment. The goal is to simulate the evolution of the genome of an autotrophic prokaryote. The main focus of this work is investigating possible reasons why some of the marine algae genomes are strongly streamlined and others are not (see the poster and the ESEB congress talk).

I am currently supervised by Dr Thomas Mock and Dr Cock Van Oosterhout. I also worked with Dr Hywel Williams and Professor Tim Lenton.

Biography

I studied Environmental Biology at the University of Warsaw for both my B.Sc. and my M.Sc. My speciality since then is the fresh water ecology. Near the end of my undergraduate studies I became interested in a hardcore theoretical ecology what lead me to simultaneous studies in biology and... physics! (Computational Methods of Physics, B.Sc. program). Well, studying physics took me a bit longer than I had initially planned... But in the mean time I was awarded M.Sc. in ecology and I have been working part time as a junior research assistant (still dealing with the fresh water zooplankton). Since October 2008 I am a PhD student in the School of Environmental Sciences, UEA.

Contact

P.Bentkowski /at/ uea.ac.uk

Last updated at 21:25 on 05/02/2012 by Piotr Bentkowski.

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