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Educational data are in…and they look good

We are in annual report time for the grant. Having a hard deadline to look at accomplishments and shortcomings once per year does wonders for a better understanding of where we are. But this year I was not looking forward … Continue reading

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Education Research Results and Presentations

Ana and I are “dividing and conquering” in terms of sharing results. I am at the American Society for Microbiology’s annual meeting presenting our preliminary results on student outcomes while Ana is at a Gordon Research Conference doing the same. … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Re-Analysis and Validation!

Thanks to your contributions, we were able to purchase the Geneious software package to validate our analyses. I’m still in the midst of pre-processing for our sequences–since we have millions of reads and low quality data can result in inaccurate species identification, it’s … Continue reading

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Sequencing data are in!

So this morning the email arrived from Omega Biotek that the sequencing data of the beach run were in. It is uploaded to the Illumina Basespace platform, and besides all the raw data files there are also all kind of … Continue reading

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