After another long night, we all headed to Megabites for breakfast at 7.15 am. The morning started off fairly normal, I ran more PCR arrays and also helped the group set up the new LAMBDA experiment. We decided to change our experiment to ensure that it worked this tiem and it did! We prepared serial dilutions of E.coli and added them to the apparatus. We then measured voltage for approximately 30 mins and used fluorescent microscopy to determine cell count. Although the voltage started out a bit jumpy, it was normalised in about an hour and so we started testing.
We then had a lecture from my PI for the summer, Dr. Eduardo Almeida who spoke about the research that the Bone and Signalling Lab does at NASA Ames. The talk was comprehensive but not too technical and so everyone thoroughly enjoyed it, especially after he showed us some videos of Newts flying in microgravity!
After the talk I went back to work on my individual project and then spent most of the night in Oana’s lab with the group conducting LAMBDA testing. After the testing was complete, the group who was left in the lab, Corey, Veronica, Max and I headed up to Freemont Peak to join the rest of the Academy to watch Perseids Meteor Shower. The meteors were spectacular and the number of visible stars was also incredible. Freemont Peak Observatory had one of the telescopes out and we also saw Jupiter and its moons and the Andromeda Galaxy which was beautiful. After a long time watching the stars we headed back to get some sleep before work.
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Thursday 12/08/10
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