4126 Blog

This was out first week of 4126, it was very nice getting to know everyone in class. We began our diversity project by recording the colony color of each strain as well as determining which type of media each grew best on. We then transfered a colony from each of these well grown plates onto a new plate and incubated them at 25C. Wednesday we made marine agar, plate count agar, 1/10 plate count agar, and 1/100 plate count agar. I enjoy making our own media rather than getting it from media prep. So far this class is great and I am very interested in finding out what species we have and comparing them to the known species descriptions. Maybe, hopefully, we have something new!