Baily Hansen

The only other Biotech class Bailey has taken is Intro to Biotech, the class that precedes Advanced Biotech. They have previously done assignments involving electrophoresis, DNA extraction, and PCR. A project that was more individual and was more of an experiment, though, is the yEvo (Yeast Evolution) project that they did. They did this during Intro, over the course of a few months, with the intention of proving the hypothesis, "If the msh2d is supposed to have more mutations than the wild type, then at the end of the experiment the msh2d will have received a higher concentration of the drug than the wild type yeast." This experiment was unfortunately cut short, but they still made a few interesting discoveries during the project, including some that defied their expectations of how the experiment would go. 

Current Projects

Currently, Bailey is working on the activities included in the third chapter of the Biotechnology: A Laboratory Skills Course textbook. They already completed activity 3.A, and are preparing to do 3.B and 3.C. In 3.A, they have made LB Broth, LB Agar, poured agar plates, made LBS Agar, and done a sterility test on a 100mm petri plate. They would like to work on activity 3.D―Gram Staining―because of how interesting it seems. They would also like to get to work on activities in the later chapters. 

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