Directory

Here you can browse my collection of posts on the major topics I write about in my blog.

• Marine biology research (video)
• Balancing class work, lab work, and finals (video)
• Juggling different class projects at once (post)
• Research seminar: studying fishy behavior (video)
• Designing animal behavior experiments (post) 
• Diatom culturing and fish work (post)
• Discussing my project at Fall Fest (video)

• The gist of post-transcriptional regulation (video)

• Culturing bacteria with LB-AMP plates (video) 
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• Running gels to check for plasmid fragments (video)
• Building plasmids to transform into diatoms (video)
• Cloning with bacteria (video)
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• Transforming bacteria (post)
• DNA sequencing (post)
• Using DNA sequences to help design plasmids (post)
• Using digests for analytical purposes (post)
• Completing my second set of plasmids (post)
• Ligating and cloning plasmids (video)
• Midi preparation of plasmid DNA (post)

• Preparing materials for genetic transformation (video)
• Cell counts (post)
• Diatom media (post)
  
• Practicing diatom culturing techniques (video)
• Diatom plates (video)
• When it all happened: diatom transformation day (video)
• Go-to post on my diatom transformations (post)

• Culturing transformed diatoms and selecting for eGFP-positive clones (post)
• Emergency diatom maintenance (please don't die, diatoms!) (video)
• Emergency maintenance (post)
• Maintaining discrete diatom lines (video)
• Diatom culturing: from agar plates to liquid cultures (video)

• Designing primers for PCR (post)
• Diatom colony screen by PCR protocol.
• Diatom colony PCR (video)
• Post and graphics on diatom PCR

• Running experimental assays (video)
• Assay post and graphic

• RNA extraction 1 (video)
• RNA extraction 2 (video)

• Mapping out real time-PCR experiments (post)
• Designing real time-PCR primers (post)
• The gist of real time-PCR (video)
• Real time-PCR (post)