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About me I am a
medicinal chemist with a PhD in
organic chemistry. I have worked in both academic and industrial settings doing teaching, basic research and applied research mostly in the area of
drug discovery.
I currently work for a small company that collaborates with academic labs to pursue drug discovery research and to help them secure funding, such as
SBIR grants, that would be otherwise unavailable to them.
I have been actively editing Wikipedia for more than ten years. I try to improve Wikipedia by creating, updating, correcting, organizing, and copyediting articles related to organic chemistry, particularly
heterocyclic compounds and natural
organic compounds. To get a better idea of my interests, just take a look at some of the
articles I have started or this
list of the most recent of the ~8000 chemical structure images I have uploaded, or see my
contributions.
With my wife and kids, I live in suburban
Pennsylvania.
Viviparus georgianus, commonly known as the banded mystery snail, is a species of large
freshwater snail in the family
Viviparidae, the river snails. It is native to North America, generally found from the northeastern United States to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and thrives in
eutrophic lentic environments such as lakes, ponds and some low-flow streams. The snail has
two distinct sexes and
reproduces more than once in a lifetime, with females laying eggs singly in albumen-filled capsules. It feeds on
diatom clusters found on silt and mud substrates, but it may also require the ingestion of some grit to be able to break down algae. This image shows five views of a 2.1 cm high (0.83 in) V. georgianusshell, originally collected in the U.S. state of
Georgia and now in the collection of the
State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany.Photograph credit:
H. Zell
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