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Personality:
Katie Brown has a passion for flora which is why she loves her job so much. The peaceful and unobtrusive mannerisms of most plants reflects her own personality and she finds comfort in their silence. At first glance, many regard Katie as a shy, quiet woman who tries hard to please everyone and they aren't far off from the truth. Around people she doesn't know, Katie will act like this, but she does have the ability to loosen up around her friends. Sometimes she feels like the odd person out - everyone else seems to have more important jobs than her. However, she often reminds herself that without plants there wouldn't be things like medicine or food, not to mention air to breathe.

She is a rather easy-going person who doesn't like confrontations and likes to give everyone a chance. This is probably due to the fact that she hangs around scientists a lot and they are usually awkward themselves. Through this she has learned never to judge a book by its covers and always believes the good in a person before the bad. This makes her a little naive and sometimes this causes her problems because she is too trusting at time. While sometimes she can come off as a little flakey, she takes her job seriously and does it with the best of her ability.

Detailed History:
Katie grew up in a middle-class family in New York City, USA. Her mother was a high school teacher and her father worked as a mechanic for a prominent car dealer. Because both of her parents worked, Katie was left alone at a young age for a few hours after school before her mother would get home. To pass the time, Katie began to grow a small garden in their small suburban backyard. She found tremendous pleasure in cultivating the flowers that her tiny garden grew gradually to include some indigenous vegetables as well. As she grew up, so did her taste for gardening.

In high school Katie began to take science class and learned the concept of cross-pollination. This fascinated her and she went home and began to experiment with cross-pollination with her own plants. After several failures, Katie was able to produce a cross-breed between a rose and a tulip and her fascination for plants was fixed. When she wasn’t maintaining her garden, she was reading or researching more things about plants. This theme continued when she attended university.

Katie attended New York University where she majored in biology with a specialization in plants. When she began her doctorate degree, she befriended Gloria Coruzzi, a professor and well-know scientist in regards to Genomics and Plant Molecular Genetics as well as the N-networks in Arabidopsis and Plant Evolutionary Genomics. Katie was one of the top five students in her class and when she graduated, Dr. Coruzzi procured Katie a job working for the university in their greenhouse.

While working for the university, Katie published several theses on botany and one day was approached by some military officers offering her a job to work at Area 51. The offer intrigued Katie and she accepted their proposal. During her work at Area 51, she was introduced to a lot of alien plant life. She was able to transplant several plants to Earth soil and she showed great potential for adaptive methods when faced with difficult tasks. This is one of the reasons why she was considered and then chosen to be on the Atlantis expedition.

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