random pics
I'm supposed to be studying for Plant Biotech on Monday but I'm quite obviously putting it off.
Here's a pic from my birthday last year featuring a delicious chocolate cake, 9 regular candles and one of those damned trick candles. I spewed my saliva and ash (from the other candle wicks) all over the cake before finally blowing it out, then everyone got to have a slice.
This is the view from the main lab on Level 9. I took this pic on Tuesday while waiting for my gel to run. It was only 3pm but it looked like 5pm. The camera in my phone sucks, because the view was actually orangey-pink, and yes, I took it through the window. We have those awesome windows that go all along the wall.
Plates from last week were incubated so I got to see mine on Thursday. I think it's some kind of mixture of microbes and the point of this one is to do the 16-streak method which dilutes the fellas down. The aim of it is to produce isolated colonies and I DID IT!
This site has a pretty good diagram of what I did, although we weren't supposed to streak it all the way to the centre of the plate, and we used more streaks in this prac as well. Also, I streaked it clockwise, but it's flipped over to incubate so the streaks go anticlockwise. But yes! Isolated colonies! You can only see the clear colonies in the pic (staph aureus) but there are smaller, opaque colonies as well - E. coli. The label says: Felicia, 37C/24h, 27/3 streak plate.
OMFG BLOOD
Don't worry, that's not my blood. That's some poor horse's blood. We add horse blood to warm agarose to test our aseptic technique again because just about anything can grow in blood. It's just so scary how vibrant the red is.
Here's a pic from my birthday last year featuring a delicious chocolate cake, 9 regular candles and one of those damned trick candles. I spewed my saliva and ash (from the other candle wicks) all over the cake before finally blowing it out, then everyone got to have a slice.
This is the view from the main lab on Level 9. I took this pic on Tuesday while waiting for my gel to run. It was only 3pm but it looked like 5pm. The camera in my phone sucks, because the view was actually orangey-pink, and yes, I took it through the window. We have those awesome windows that go all along the wall.
Plates from last week were incubated so I got to see mine on Thursday. I think it's some kind of mixture of microbes and the point of this one is to do the 16-streak method which dilutes the fellas down. The aim of it is to produce isolated colonies and I DID IT!
This site has a pretty good diagram of what I did, although we weren't supposed to streak it all the way to the centre of the plate, and we used more streaks in this prac as well. Also, I streaked it clockwise, but it's flipped over to incubate so the streaks go anticlockwise. But yes! Isolated colonies! You can only see the clear colonies in the pic (staph aureus) but there are smaller, opaque colonies as well - E. coli. The label says: Felicia, 37C/24h, 27/3 streak plate.
OMFG BLOOD
Don't worry, that's not my blood. That's some poor horse's blood. We add horse blood to warm agarose to test our aseptic technique again because just about anything can grow in blood. It's just so scary how vibrant the red is.