Current notes and guidance
May 27-28, 2008
This Wednesday will be your first chance to pass the solutions/dilutions quiz. Again: be sure you have seen: homework.
On Tuesday - for our lab break, we will discuss the results of the honey/nectar project and consider what next step(s) should be made.
Lecture will discuss three major lab procedures
(read these topics in whichever text you have):
- various ways of sterilizing things
- how to count bacteria ("enumeration")
- selective media (in our case MacConkey or EMB agar)
In lab this week: - Veronica and her assistant will be given all the supplies needed for whenever the joyous moment occurs.
- We will look at our flower plates to see if any evidence of antibiosis is present, and, if so, what to do next.
- We will then do our first "plate counts". I will give you a suspension (why not a solution?) of E.coli. These will be serially diluted and measured amounts of the dilutions will be plated on MacConkey agar, upon which only G(-) bacteria can grow. You will take these plates home with you so that you can "count" the colonies in the next day or two. You will present your data on week #4 (when Dr. V returns from Boston).
- One of you will be chosen (what an honor!) to show the DVD "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery during the next lecture evening (week #3). (No lab next week! Whoopieeee!).
Again and especially for those of you who will be needing future letters of recommendation, Dr V welcomes you to join him for lunch or supper on Wednesdays so he can get to know you better than your just being a member of a large class. (For years Dr V ignored his colleagues at W&M to eat lunch instead with small groups of his students. Those students recommend you read
How to Be A Successful Student.
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| Notes and handouts you should PRINT OUT Week #1 are:
Notes and handouts you should READ are:
Lab Notes by Date:
May: | 5/20,21 | 5/27,28 |
June: | 6/03,04 | 6/10,11 | 6/17,18 | 6/24,25 |
July: | 7/01,02 | 7/08,09 | 7/15,16 | 7/22,23 | 7/29 (FINAL EXAM) |
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