lab work

December 8, 2016

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
August 12, 2016

Information Overload!

This week Ana and Rachel attended a workshop on metagenomics hosted by Liz Dinsdale at San Diego State University. From DNA extraction all the way through sequencing and analysis, we were able to produce metagenomes from shotgun sequencing from some… Continue reading