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Spring 2024-Week 11

Hi Everyone, Another week, another post. I can't believe we're almost done with TRAIN, let alone the semester. My research has just started picking up. On Tuesday, I had to hunker down and spend 2+ hours in the lab on one experiment. I'm really excited about my results. For the first time, I was able to definitely prove that the pseudomonas does grow biofilm. However, the biofilm only stuck to the sides because I used plates with u-bottom wells instead of flat-bottom. This is going to make it hard to put the data into numbers. I'm debating whether I want/have time to redo the experiment with flat bottom wells. If not, this might be the end of my research this semester.

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