Week Four: The Beginning of RBBR

So this week our group started our new experiment, the RBBR experiment. Janet, Joey and I each have about twenty different plates of fungi we are in charge of measuring and monitoring.
Like I said before, we culture fungi from mushroom specimens found in the woods and grow them in petri dishes. For this experiment we transferred plugs of the fungi onto plates dyed with RBBR blue dye. We will measure the fungi's effectiveness by watching to see if and how long it takes the fungi to turn the RBBR plates clear. (It is a lot easier sounding than it is!) It's hard because judging growth and decolorization on the plates is not always easy with slow growing fungi. We take into consideration the hyphea (the roots if you will) growth and the decolorization rate, which, more often than not, is not the same. We will be measuring the growth of the plates every other day, so it means we have to spend a little time four days a week in the lab, which is okay except it means having to work that time into my schedule. Like tomorrow I have to stop in the lab to measure, probably before my math test; which I am nervous about, because math is a hard subject for me. Anyways, have to get studying discriminates and completing the square, catch you later!!!!
-C