Started the morning off by streaking nutrient agar plates from cultures thought to be ‘dead’ and put them in the incubator til tomrrow. Stock cultures from the lab were previously streaked on agar plates, today my task was to isolate single colonies and make up streak plates, these were placed in the incubator until tomorrow when they will hopefully have grown so they can then be gram stained and identified. Then i chose a project to conduct over the summer, If a pure sample of soya can be located then i hope to design a working PCR test to detect GM soya in non GM foods.
Started the morning off by streaking nutrient agar…
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Yes, we must get in touch with the John Innes centre to get some positive control stocks – do you want to draft an email, Deborah?
yeah, i’ll give it a go, will email it to you over the weekend