I am so grateful to be able to attend the EIMD RCN Meeting. It was really nice to see familiar faces (Bette Willis, Katie Sutherland, Melissa Garren) and of course it was good to meet new people and put a face to […]

The day started with me wanting to do some PCR, but, alas, the Laby WC primers were left in Seattle during Team Laby’s Epic qPCR Adventure. So instead, I did what I prob should have been doing in the first place, […]

Today, Rachel, Casey,Cody and I set up the second round of the Oyster Filtration Experiment.

The collection of Laby was alot more efficient this time around and I tried to use pipetting of the Laby off the […]

qPCR data! It’s pretty cool. Also, today I learned that error bars and log scales don’t get along. The graph below is just the water samples that were collected at these 3 time points. We didn’t qPCR the other […]

Today, we traveled back from Seattle with some lab supplies. So no lab/data to report yet. Tomorrow, I am going to examine the qPCR data thoroughly. Which means tomorrow’s post should be much more exciting. Lisa […]

Data!…coming soon to a classroom near you! Here is a mere taste of the data we have. Check out the R^2 on that one!

Today was spent in the lab at UW doing science (see title above). Then we got to […]

TEAM LABY!!! I streaked out Laby strain 8.16.D cultures onto 8 plates of SSA. Hopefully, by Sunday we will have enough Laby to do an infection trial with different concentrations of Laby. I hope that this will […]

Sorry everyone. I meant to past this about two days ago and just now got a chance to do so. R: Below is a gel of PCR (with Laby WC primers) on the serial dilution of Laby + SW as well as the water samples at T0 […]

But I am not sure that python loves me.

Between not being able to install the R package onto Ipython before lunch and then the David webserver not processing my data input, I have no pretty graphs/charts/etc to […]

I  have a lot of cool stuffs to post today because we are doing so much cool stuff.

BIOINFORMATICS! We continued our plunge into python and the Seastar transcriptome data. Yesterday, we BLASTed the contigs that […]

I hope that everyone saw and thoroughly enjoyed the PCR Song from my previous post. This comic expresses perfectly how I feel today.

http://xkcd.com/353/

This comic is particularly relevant because I am pretty […]

Many PCRs will ensue in the upcoming days. In regards to that, here is a video for your enjoyment.

M:          Yesterday Casey and I extracted DNA from the gill […]

Today, went much more smoothly.

We took one more water sample. The oysters at this time have had a full 24hr to eat Laby to their heart’s content. We took out the oysters and dissected each one (60 total). We […]