7/16/07

Today I divided my time between Fromme's lab and Wachter's lab. In Wachter's lab, we are isolating GFP through the use of primers and a broth in E. coli with an antibiotic that the plasmid is resistant to. In Fromme's lab, we were trying to replicate experiments creating inorganic crystals using the materials that would be typical of a high school lab and Dr. Fromme commented on how much more difficult simple experiments then become. She showed us a particular catalog that would allow us to purchase better equipment- not lab quality- but certainly above rudimentary for our work creating copper sulfate crystals. We found out how to apply the terms saturated and supersaturated in the lab setting as well and will be meeting once again with Dr. Fromme at 2:30 PM to review our powerpoint thus far.