Halima Musakarim

Back in 2023-2024, Halima’s freshman year of which she joined Intro to Biotech. One of the main labs she was required to do, in RenzLab at Foster High School, is keeping the yEvo Yeast alive for the whole school year. In this project, Halima had to keep track of the yeast evolution and reaction to different amounts of dosages, all while making sure to keep both WildType and Msh2d alive. In the beginning it was hard for her to understand the concept while having to deal with big sciency words thrown at her and her peers. But thankfully she was able to withstand it and found ways to keep up with this new routine! With that, Halima fortunately succeeded with her yearlong task and was able to move up into Advanced Biotech, to which she is currently enrolling for 2024-2025!

Current Projects

Since it is her first time having a lab to herself as an advanced student, the first lab that she successfully accomplished was making her first ever TAE and Molar solutions! Currently Halima has worked on making microbiology media and agar plates! She has successfully poured her first ever petrie agarose gel plates without any fail!! She was also able to swab her LB Broth onto the gel plate, in order to see if she had contaminated the media or not. So far these labs seem to be persistent in Halima’s lab work station.

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