Hey Guys, just checking in to tell you what's up with the fungi group. The last two weeks have been full of fungal activity! We have started another round of soil experiments and have finished up another RBBR and half way through with a sawdust. It's very interesting to see how some strains act in different experiments! Some of the ones that were really good the first time around are not so good the second.
What we are working on now is a master list of all the strains we are in charge of and what experiments they have been in. It's a lot of work and I am not super fond of Excel. That being said it's interesting to look at the data we have collected over the year and see trends, or see just how little the data helps with one strain or another. I can tell that data management along the way is very helpful, now we have to set up smaller scale experiments to replace some of the missing data with. Or Thom will have to without us. Either way much more work has to be put into what work we have already done to make our data useful. Anyways, it's busy around here and the weather hasn't been helpful! Have fun in the sun!
-C
Friday, July 31, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
July Update
Happy Summer!
Yay; now that the weather is finally good our work has really picked up its pace and Joey and I have completed our presentation requirements for the program! We presented to a couple of sections of the Upward bound Program, a program to encourage education for youth at risk, usually these kids are very bright but have bad family lives or no post high school experience in their family. The two groups we presented to were great kids full of good questions and interesting insight into what we are doing in the lab. The learning curve is always really steep when we present because most people don't know anything about fungi but by the end of our session these kids had all sorts of ideas for experiments and some pretty hard questions to tackle. Regardless we have a lot of fun with them and are really happy to be done with our presentations.
In the lab, things are going well, our new sawdust experiment is going good and we just set up a new soil trial(After some minor water content difficulties,) I should be ready to transfer my plugs to soil tomorrow. So between the three experiments we're running right now and the ever so fun worksheets that go along with them, we are keeping ourselves pretty busy.
Well that's about it, I'll catch you later!
-C
Yay; now that the weather is finally good our work has really picked up its pace and Joey and I have completed our presentation requirements for the program! We presented to a couple of sections of the Upward bound Program, a program to encourage education for youth at risk, usually these kids are very bright but have bad family lives or no post high school experience in their family. The two groups we presented to were great kids full of good questions and interesting insight into what we are doing in the lab. The learning curve is always really steep when we present because most people don't know anything about fungi but by the end of our session these kids had all sorts of ideas for experiments and some pretty hard questions to tackle. Regardless we have a lot of fun with them and are really happy to be done with our presentations.
In the lab, things are going well, our new sawdust experiment is going good and we just set up a new soil trial(After some minor water content difficulties,) I should be ready to transfer my plugs to soil tomorrow. So between the three experiments we're running right now and the ever so fun worksheets that go along with them, we are keeping ourselves pretty busy.
Well that's about it, I'll catch you later!
-C
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