Tag Archives: data
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
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
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
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