My lab partner, Allison, and I have been assured that troubleshooting is a desired skill and that we will be grateful for our current Proteins woes later in our careers. And I'm proud to say that despite repeated setbacks, we've put our big-girl lab coats on, looked that ?-galactosidase in ...
Just kidding. We're too nerdy to be this coordinated. Allison and Holly are just good sports. Along with the hoodies, jeans and wind-tousled hair, the autumn weather has brought a slew of new classes: Molecular Biology I: This past week in Mo Bio we worked on learning to set up ...
Time flies when you're having fun. I am convinced that I had so much fun from the middle of last term to the present that I actually time travelled into the future. OK. Maybe I'm not actually convinced, but I'm highly suspicious. We have done too much for me to ...
Why are Bradford assays like Groundhog Day? You'll have to read about it to know. Apparently I'm in movie simile mode this week too because this week was like being stuck in the movie Groundhog Day. We started our week with the Bradford assay. I made serial dilutions from our ...
Chicken liver is a great learning tool! This week's adventures in Bioseparations involved homogenizing chopped liver, using it to explore the high speed centrifuge and running our old friend the Bradford Assay on it. We started by jumping into a mixed day of centrifuge lecture and preparation of homogenization buffer ...
Is it science or art? Jennifer tells us about make tubes with lovely colors, better known as Bradford and ss-galactosidase assays, and graphs with Excel. Guest speakers tell the PCC classes about technology transfer at OHSU and cell culture at Najit Technologies. This week (and a half) in Portland Community ...
Hostess is threatening to take away our Twinkies. Bravely, we forge ahead into the bioscience learning horizon with exciting guest lecturers. This week at Portland Community College's Bioscience Technology program we were treated to visits from people in our local biotech industry. Our first visit was from Jerry Thomas, PhD ...
