Wojciech Rychlik is a

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and

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, born in Poland and living in the USA since 1980. Rychlik received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

. Currently, he is a president of Molecular Biology Insights, Inc. located in

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. The main focus of Rychlik's research was

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design. He is known for developing the

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., the first software optimizing conditions for PCR. Before moving to the industry sector in 1991, he was instrumental in discovery of human

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initiation factor eIF-4

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working as Assistant Res. Professor at the

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. Rychlik is a nature photographer, member of the

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. In 2007 and 2008 he was the top-ranked exhibitor in PSA stereo electronic section. As a photographer he is better known as Wojtek Rychlik, who published books about Colorado Mountains. His first book was a 230-page atlas of mountain lakes in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, "Lakes of the Sangres", and the most significant was a catalog of Front Range Mountains, a 572-page atlas "Eagle’s View of the Front Range". Some others are included in the References section.Rychlik, W (2010) Eagle’s View of the Sangres; Pikes Peak Photo, Cascade, CO;

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External links

Oligo Primer Analysis Software by Molecular Biology Insights

Nature photography by Wojciech Rychlik
Polish molecular biologists Polish photographers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Polish emigrants to the United States {{Poland-photographer-stub