Author Archives: Ana
Did you try to contact us? Please do it again…
Technology is our friend until it is not…We received notifications of contact forms submitted, but turns out we had to upgrade the form program in order to see the entries. And when it was upgraded, it erased the existing entries. … Continue reading
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Virtual Presentation for EB2020
Well, EB2020 (ASBMB 2020) did not happen in sunny San Diego as planned due to Covid-19. I was looking forward the conference both for myself, my students (one of them was going to the student poster competition), and my wonderful … Continue reading
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Updates in Covid Times
This is a quick update of where we are at now with the Covid pandemic. Needless to say, pretty much everything is on standby now. Conferences we planned for presenting data were canceled (was really looking forward EB2020 being in … Continue reading
2020: New Year New Phase New Goals
As we enter the second year of our NSF grant, new opportunities and challenges are coming our way. With the logistics of regular SIO field trips and student assessments established, the focus is now on both deepening the science and … Continue reading
And we are rolling!
As Rachel announced in a previous note, we are collaborating with Jeff Bowman from SIO in the deployment, collection, and analysis of samples, as well as in the educational experience. The gist of the NSF grant is to develop a … Continue reading
We were awarded an NSF grant!
We found out today that we received a $249,978 NSF grant for the submission: Using Ocean Plastic Research to Increase Student Engagement and Persistence in Biology. Needless to say, we are absolutely ecstatic. Here is the announcement: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832545 and here … Continue reading
Day 40 and rolling!
Last Thursday Wendy and I went out to collect our day 40 samples! So far so good- we have collected at day 12, 24, and 40, with one more to go. Here we are, returning with the treasures. What we do … Continue reading
New Deployment!
We have been quiet but we have been busy. After the FTIR analysis (showing signs of degradation in the plastic) and PCR of the colonies grown from the plastic on ChromAgar Vibrio (showing interesting but not pathogenic Vibrios), we decided … Continue reading
Poster presentation accepted for ASM2017!
ASM Microbe conference! Needless to say, we are very excited. Just received some preliminary FT-IR data (this is a chemical analysis technique that can expose changes in the structure of materials) for one of the plastics, LDPE (that would be the … Continue reading
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Extracting DNA
Few days ago we used the MOBIO Biostic kit to isolate DNA I extracted from microbial colonies grown on ChromAgar Vibrio with the goal of identifying them using PCR. Colonies had been collected and frozen at -20 oC. Super excited … Continue reading
