Much of my working time yesterday was spent „chunking“ worms.
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
October 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Much of my working time yesterday was spent „chunking“ worms.
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday).
#Caenorhabditis
Seriously though do not pour LB agar plates from a 5 L Erlenmeyer you will make a -
*puts sunglasses on*
hot mess.
*puts sunglasses on*
hot mess.
August 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Seriously though do not pour LB agar plates from a 5 L Erlenmeyer you will make a -
*puts sunglasses on*
hot mess.
*puts sunglasses on*
hot mess.
Or pour 8 sleeves of agar plates, therapeutically.
May 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Or pour 8 sleeves of agar plates, therapeutically.
Okay, the agar agar is cooked on the stove with sugar and water and citrus peels for flavor and now we have poured most of it into 3 pie pans with different shades of green and blue to make our ocean.
We're saving the remaining agar agar to pour over the top, but these have to set first.
We're saving the remaining agar agar to pour over the top, but these have to set first.
January 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Okay, the agar agar is cooked on the stove with sugar and water and citrus peels for flavor and now we have poured most of it into 3 pie pans with different shades of green and blue to make our ocean.
We're saving the remaining agar agar to pour over the top, but these have to set first.
We're saving the remaining agar agar to pour over the top, but these have to set first.
January 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Note that both the classes I teach have a heavy lab component. For example, this term I had to pour 2800 agar plates myself (no tech), and this week I’m giving the class 17 hours of additional microscopy assistance. These are not “fluff” courses.
BIOL 2260 Fall 2024 Syllabus.pdf
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November 29, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Note that both the classes I teach have a heavy lab component. For example, this term I had to pour 2800 agar plates myself (no tech), and this week I’m giving the class 17 hours of additional microscopy assistance. These are not “fluff” courses.
Inhibitors in the agar. Interesting story for those that pour agar plates. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
A Simple Lab Ingredient Derailed Science Experiments
A scientist in Arkansas couldn’t get her experiments to work. Then others started saying the same thing.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Inhibitors in the agar. Interesting story for those that pour agar plates. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Better late than never. This week I learned a new method to set and dry agar plates in a hood from a visiting postdoc! The plates dry faster with the stacking method near the back of the hood and saves space to pour more in one go! #microbiology
April 12, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Better late than never. This week I learned a new method to set and dry agar plates in a hood from a visiting postdoc! The plates dry faster with the stacking method near the back of the hood and saves space to pour more in one go! #microbiology