- Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry
- School of Environmental Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich
- NR4 7TJ
- UK
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Theoretical biology and ecology
PhD - 'The Virtual Prokaryote'
As a PhD student working in evolutionary biology at UEA I have build a model of interactions between an evolving community of prokaryotes and their environment. The goal of the model was to simulate the evolution of the genome size of a free-living prokaryotes. The focus was to investigate can the level of turublence in abiotic conditions alter the number of genes (see the poster and the ESEB congress talk). My thesis is awaiting reviews and I am looking forward my to doctoral exam.
I was supervised by Dr Thomas Mock and Dr Cock Van Oosterhout. I also worked with Dr Hywel Williams and Professor Tim Lenton.
Aquatic Ecophysiology
Before my PhD studies and in the last few months of non-stipendiary period of PhD studies I was working on impacts of exogenic hormones and pharmaceuticals on aquatic organisms. My work involved laboratory
in vivo experiments on fish and planktonic crustaceans (paper one, paper two and a conferense poster).
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 where I switched to theoretical evolutionary biology.
Contact
bentkowski.piotr /at/ gmail.com
