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Hey Everyone! I just thought I'd update my blog. This past weekend I drove home to work at my restaurant and spend some time at home with my family for Father's Day. It felt so great to be back at the shore once again. I can't wait till I go back for good! I drove back to JMU early Monday morning to work in the lab. So far this past week we have clean-cut-clean our PCR and transformed them into competent cells. For those of you who do not know what competent cells are, they are cells which can accept extra chromosomal DNA. Following this, my partner and I minipreped our samples to assure that our DNA was still present and digested it with restriction enzymes. The purpose of the digestion is to assure that our minpreps were correct and the DNA is present. Unfortunately our results did not come out as planned. All of our results turned out to be negative which means that our minipreps failed and there were no clones. Because of this tomorrow will be spent re-PCRing and hopefully everything will work out better next time. So that is a little update on how everything in lab is going. To anybody who is nervous about working in the lab, have no fear. The professors assure that everyone is properly trained and familiar with all procedures being conducted in the lab and will walk through everything until you understand what it is that's being done.
I'm looking forward to this upcoming weekend for a couple of reasons. First, it is my birthday on Friday. I can't believe I'm turning 22. Next, on Saturday I will be driving to Richmond to where I will meet up with the girls who I lived on my hall freshman year to celebrate another birthday. Lastly, on Sunday I will be driving to Nissan Pavilion in Northern Virginia to go to a Dave Matthew's Band concert with some friends. Hopefully next week, I'll have some good pictures to post for all of you…
Posted by Kristen on June 24, 2005 08:26 AM | Link | Email Kristen
