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Week 7 - 8/12

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On Tuesday, I learned about mitochondrial DNA. This is something I want to do a scholarship video on.

On Wednesday, I continued to learn about mitochondrial DNA compared to Nuclear DNA. I checked on my cells, they have been growing really slowly and I needed to make sure they were still doing okay. Then at the end, I learned how to graph IncuCyte data.

On Thursday, I continued to work on my mitochondrial DNA video. I also added new media to my cells so hopefully by tomorrow or early next week they will be ready to split.


On Friday, I helped Bea with a Western Blot. I have come to really enjoy these, the proteins are so cool. I have so far only had one that went really badly which seems to be kind of like a record so knock on wood! I am sad that next week will be my last in the lab since I have had so much fun.

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