Blog Post Week 11

Its close to the end of the semester so we are trying to wrap everything up. This week we just nanodropped our samples and took a trip down to the  ASU Tempe DNA Sequencing Lab. ( Lots of walking and trying not to get lost). We hope that next semester we will get our sequencing results and confirm the samples we found as positives.

Blog Post Week 10

I was not able to make it to the lab earlier this week so I do not have much to say. There is no update on the microplastics, there is no money to buy new equipment to try to make this project work. For Pseudomonas the plan is to make gels today (December 1, 2016) to use for tomorrows group meeting. We need a total of 8 gels since we are screening multiple samples. we started to make gels the day before to make it a little easier for the team, there are days were we have to screen many samples and it takes a long time to set the gels and actually run them and not everyone can stay to the end.

Blog Post Week 9

It was a slow week in the lab. For microplastics there is nothing I can really do at this point. I spent this week trying to catch up on all the work that I need for Stem and my classes; I am currently really behind in almost all of my classes. For the Pseudomonas project we ran PCR on the samples that were collected from the microbiology classes, something happened to the thermocycler where our samples were not held at the right temperature so we have to redo PCR on some of the samples. Since the campus was closed on Thursday and Friday we did not have our regular Friday meeting. The plan is to screen the samples through gel electrophoresis next week.