Week of 10/7/19

10/8

Took the plates we inoculated on Saturday out of the incubator to find that three of the medias were massively contaminated. All four plates for TSB, NA, and LB showed predominately white bacterial growth. The LB plates did not show any D. aquaticus growth at all. The NA plates showed very small pink colonies scattered among the white, however, none of the colonies were isolated from the white. The TSB plates showed very small coral colonies mixed with the white, with some isolated from the white.









10/10

Because of the setback of the contaminated plates, I spent most of my time planning out adjustments to my experiment and schedule.


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