We have two S5 students working with us as part of the Nuffield Research Placement programme 2021.
Read their blog posts here:
Our first day in the lab
During our first day in the lab, we were first given a safety briefing and…
Storing soil and preparing plates
On the second day in the lab all the different soil samples that were collected…
Serial dilutions
On the 3rd day we did a serial dilution. A small amount of soil and…
DNA extraction
On the fourth day we followed a set of instructions from a kit which involved…
Was the DNA OK?
On day 5 we used a machine to find out the how much DNA was…
Looking at bacteria
On Day 8 we observed the new growth on the agar plates and wrote down…
Analysing bacteria
On day 9 we talked about how we could sequence the DNA we made on…