Techniqes

Hi!!! The last month and during this semester I had learned some laboratory techniques. One of them is how to inoculate bacteria in petri plates and to diffeent tubes. The most importatn part is to do it in a hood with the necessary aseptic methods. By this way, different particles in the environment can not interfer in the medium.  Other technique is how to do an electrophoresis with DNA samples and we can know their concentration. For this tecnique we need restriction enzymes and the enzyme depends on the sequence of DNA.  Our Professor, also, was interested to teach how to clone. For this, we need a plasmid with a multiple clonning site, replication origin, a selection gene , and a gene that is resistant to an antibiotic. This technique is very important in my investigation because if I have the sequence that makes possible the hydrocarbon degradation I can replicate it.

Before doing this post I visited other students’ blogs and their investigations are very different to mine but all of us have the same purpose. We want to collaborate to make different biotechnological advance. Some students are investigation medicinal plants and others are concentrated in how to reduce the environmental contamination. It is good to know about other investigations because we would have different points of view. At the same time, we are knowing each other and making friendship with students that mey work with us in the future.