[Reu_journal] June 29

[Tracy fanous]

Friday, June 29

Today I attended the seminar where 5 of my fellow REU partipants did 
fantastic jobs presenting.

3 of the chicks in Dr. M's incubator hatched and a 4th was making his way 
out.  Christina and I made sure to introduce the "first born" to anyone and 
everyone who passed by.

As far as work toward my project today . . .  I had one surviving tadpole, 
so I checked to see how the transfection was under the wide-field 
fluorescent microscope.  Unfortunately, it was not good.  Thus, I plan to 
inject/electroporate/transfect some more tadpoles Sunday evening when I 
return (after our planned activity).

The bacterial culture I started yesterday did not grow for some reason, so I 
placed it back in the incubator to see if it improves over the weekend.  I 
will start another culture to place in the incubator on Sunday evening while 
I'm in the lab working on the tadpoles.

I also did some more literature research today.

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