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Blog Post Week 1

I am so happy to start the new semester of STEM. This time we said goodbye to a couple of old faces and hello to some new ones. For the last few weeks, I have been teaming up with WAESO to work on a group project pertaining to pseudomonas and their growth on microplastics. Water and biofilm samples were collected from a different areas across the Phoenix College campus. Areas such a the North Gym’s Men Locker Room Sink shown traces of Pseudomonas. We organized the samples that held live culture and Nanodrop them. From there we incubated the samples before we could use an extraction kit and comparing the extraction methods to other kits. My group is using a extraction kit that cost 200 dollars! The extraction method was longer than ahy I done before. It involved use these tube tops call columns that are suppose to filter out DNA particles to them while leaving contaminants in them. In this section of the project, we are determining my favorite shopping hobby of all time: “Is the price worth it?”

I’ll keep everyone updated if it does work.

Figure 1. A Pseudomonas culture (M. Merenghi, MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

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