In the spirit of the holiday, I present to you a bit of information on members of the informal genus Vampirococcus.
It’s a neat little bug that nestles next to members of Chromatium, forms a cytopathic bridge, and sucks out all their yummy cytoplasm. You generally hear about it as an example epibiont when people discuss [...]
We’re halfway through the halfway point of Open Access Week 2009. The basic idea of open access is that we all benefit if results from research are published online for free. The site does a good job of explaining why this is so, and I leave it to people who deal with journals on a [...]
The most recent lab was spent testing antiseptics and disinfectants. We were tasked with bringing in something from home. I didn’t want to be student #1000 who brought in mouthwash or bleach, so I asked myself what would John Wayne do?
He’d bring in the same whiskey he just used to wash out the bullet hole [...]
My prof is big into metaphorical explanations.
She often refers to enzymes as Oompa-loompas, I think this is a perfect way to think of them.
Last week was spent putting the finishing touches on, tearing down, and re-finishing my slides on microbial bioremediation. It was pretty fun, and the first presentation I’ve prepared in a while. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up learning about topic I felt pretty solid on (well, solid enough for a 15 [...]
Just a reminder that today is Global Handwashing Day. And if you don’t think that’s important, zombie Holmes and Semmelweis would like to have a word with you.
All water is poo water. Unless you want your guts eaten, your brain eaten, or cysts in your tissues, don’t swim and stick to beer.
Tonight we’re going to be using Bergey’s Manual to identify some unknowns. It’s basically the book for bacterial identification and classification. I’ve been wanting to get a look at Bergey’s since the first time I read about it, so I’m super jazzed for lab!
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