Saludos a todos! El mes pasado los estudiantes de Bio Minds tuvieron la oportunidad de presentar sus trabajos de investigación a través de afiches. Personalmente, esto fue una gran experiencia ya que te informas sobre lo que los compañeros están investigando y su aportación científica. Pude visitar a 3 de personas microbiología y me hablaron [...]

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Progress

This semester, I have many objectives of my research project. The first one is to determine i f the bioluminescent bacteria can decompose the hydrocarbon naphthalene based on turbidity of the medium. The second one, is to determine if these bacteria can decompose naphthalene and phenanthrene analyzing the results of the medium based on nuclear [...]

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Bioluminescent Bacteria

The expecting of this new year had created in me an anxiety to begin to work in the scientific research. Last semester I obtained positive results for the experiments and I want to proof them again. The objective of this semester is still the same: Characterize bioluminescent bacteria capable of tolerate and/or decompose any hydrocarbon, [...]

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Fin del semestre

Este semestre ha sido uno de muchos retos y logros. Durante la investigación tuve la oportunidad de desarrollarme como científico, ya que tuve que inferir sobre lo que estaba haciendo. Seguí buscando en la literatura sobre la investigación y relaciones con la misma. Acerca de los últimos resultados con las bacterias bioluminescentes, encontramos una [...]

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Interesting results.

These last months I had been busy with the class works and tests, but I, always, spend time in what defines me: science investigation. Last time, I wrote that we found at what concentration of the hydrocarbon phenathrene the bioluminescent bacteria may grow doing the test of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC). Knowing this, we inoculated 6 [...]

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Progress

These months I had worked with the hydrocarbon phenantrene. A  technique that I learned and realized in the laboratory is how to know the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of the bioluminescent bacteria in this hydrocarbon.  First of all, we did many dilutions of phenantrene calculating the concentration of the medium. By this way, we found [...]

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Back to the science world.

Here we are again!! After a wonderful summer vacation I am back to the science and investigation world.  This semester is one of the most important to me because I hope to obtain some results about the experiments.  This time we are focused to obtain the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of bioluminescent bacteria from different [...]

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Logross!!

Hola!!! Se acerca el fin del semestre y estoy muy contenta de formar parte del programa Bio-Minds. El mismo ha sido de grandes retos y desarrollo academico y personal. Lo primero que aprendi fue a relacionarme con todos mis compa~eros de laboratorio con mucho respeto. Me di cuenta que todos tienen el deseo de ayudar [...]

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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 [...]

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My Experience

Hello:
I am Eva Nelly Rubio, student of Industrial Biotechnology in the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. There had been passed a month in the program Bio-Minds, and, for me, this is a unique experience. In the lab B-266 with Dr. Carlos Rios Velazquez and Josue Malave, I had learned that the most important thing [...]

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