Onco p53

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This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on August 16, 2004 (20 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 3 days ago).

This user lives in New Zealand.

This user is a biologist.

PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

This user plays the bass guitar.

Hello, Onco_p53 is the user name for me: Bevan Weir. 'Onco' means cancer as in Oncology, and p53 is a protein involved in causing / curing cancer. I invented this name early in my university life, my first degree was in Biotechnology.

I am from Auckland, New Zealand. My interest is in microbiology and my Wiki contributions reflect this, and my general interest in science.

I did my PhD studies on the rhizobia bacteria. I then (July 2008-July 2011) did a postdoc on a fungus called Colletotrichum (teleomorph: Glomerella). I am a scientist at Landcare Research and curator of the International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP).

My personal website is at: https://rhizobia.nz

Edits

A Magpie moth on my window. It is a NZ native day-flying moth

My Sandbox

As of 18 December 2023 I have made 8,479 en edits (12,216 in all namespaces including wikidata) [1].

• My 500th edit was uploading a better image for Nitrogen cycle
• My 1000th edit was a major update to Landcare Research
• My 1500th edit was removing redundant interwiki and linking Clostridium tetani in Tetanus
• And after that I lost count.

A German Wasp that I killed and photographed

Major contributions

• Luthite
• Lake Alta
• Agrobacterium
• Rhizobia
• Proteobacteria - many of the genera within this group, focus on taxonomy.
• Diazotrophs - first article I created
• Fabaceae
• Nitrogen fixation
• Category:Nitrogen metabolism
• Phytoplasma
• Candidatus
• Green algae - latest taxonomy
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
• Category:Mythology_stubs - for some strange reason
• Magpie moth - found one of these on my window, so took a picture and wrote an article.

Useful links for me

• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Task force tohutō
• CitationBot - lists are pipe delimited
• ArchiveBot - lists are new line delimited
• External links search
• Wikipedia:Mbabel - templates from wikidata