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Thursday, January 30, 2014

I'm BACK!


So the first official week back on the scene has been very productive. The plan is to pick up where I left off last semester with doing my leaf pack trap. Since this involves a lot of waiting, Matt and Josh suggested that I work on a side project so Monday I went into lab and started a new project. So far we decided that I would determine the genetic similarities of bees from different locations. Prior to this I had never done a DNA extraction, and especially not with some old dried bees. The first try was not a success ( I had messed up a few steps). Let’s just say I've learned to read, re-read and read again any protocol I’m going to be using in the future.  This is a picture of the fresh bee I did and extraction on on Wednesday.