Transmitters had been placed on three bats two days before hand. We used telemetry to try and find the bats. We only located bat 2. It was in tree 49. The myotis bats in tree 49 could be seen clearly, it was the best view i had ever had of them in the day time. [...]
We decided to try to check the trees before the storm hit. The area was still flooded. We found two big ear bats. We got to see a tree fall and my waders filled up with water.
3/13/08 was the first day back in the field. The area was still flooded so we had to wear waders. We found two big ear bats.
So today i went into the lab and got all excited b/c i thought that i saw a colony of cells that had grown up. Later, I discovered that it was no more than a spot of dirt on the bottom of my petri dish. All the tissue culture cells were dead too. Sad day! So [...]
January 26, 2008
The cells were placed in AB free medium. One of the plates just had the medium changed. One plate was treated with a plasmid that only contained the drug resistance protein. The last plate was treated with a plasmid containing the drug resistance protein and the CPAK2 protein. All three plates continue to [...]
January 25, 2008
So, the cells grew a little too well. There were several dead cells found when we took the plate out to split cells. On this day, the goal was to make 3 new plates with about 100,000 cells each. To get a rough estimate of how many cells were in the plate, we [...]
Today was the first day that I have ever worked in a real lab. It was amazing. It was just a small step in the direction my major will take me. This semester I am going to be working with tissue cells. The goal is to change the DNA of the cells to make them produce a specific protein and a [...]
The wetland flowers have been hit by the frost, and they look pretty drab now. Currently work is consisting of writing up the report and I am looking forward to working in the wetland next semester.
We left Freed at about 6 that morning to got to the Bat Conference near Nashville. Our group did well and we learned a lot form the 10 different presentations that were given.
Me and Tristan went out to the site. There was a little water near but we decided to go in anyway. We were only able to get to 7 trees and there wasn’t any bats in any of the trees.
