Hey finally round to my second of these.
The catchup is that we have cleared our plan with Clare for the micro, and have poured a couple of Agar plates and are now waiting on results of our negative control (Blank sponge) hopefully tht will come back as expected and we can begin processing our samples next week.
Learnt how to use the stomacher with Sophie and had a good time in micro, fascinating what some of the guys are doing research on even if some of it is murdering caterpillars!!!!!!!
The fiskerton skull that Jacob is working on is now free of the massive lump of clay, and the skull is nearly clean and ready for analysis. It took 3 days to extract the clay!!!!
Sophie and i also trialed swabbing bones with ethanol to disinfect them, as reccomended by a guy at the university of Indianapolis, glad to say the bones were not damaged in any way (Dread to think what Gillian would have done if they were damaged)
Overall very good time on this research and the things in between like school visits. We had people from two of the three school groups pass out in gen lab 3, starting to think the room is cursed?!?!? I myself believe am getting very good at talking about the bones and how to analyse them, Gillian emabarrased me slightly by testing how to side bones and i failed; so will now work on that for next time.
Hopefully be living in SB209 from next week, so see you then