Tuesday, June 06, 2006

WEB days

Today and tomorrow are WEB days which is for demonstrating to 13 year old students what DNA work would look like. My roster is from 9:00-10:00 and 14:00-15:00. What we (demonstrators) actually did are to see those students get kiwi fruit pulp and add salt and detergent, water bath for 15 min and precepitate the DNA with ice-cold methylated spirit (hell, I didn't know that the spirit can be used in this way before). Meanwhile we also showed them how to use dispenser and autopipettor, and also let them try to load DNA sample (actually it's just a blue dye) into agarose gel. Overall the process was seamless, except those students were somewhat unorganized and the process was also a bit in rush. Oh, and I found somebody had dumped the used kiwi pulp down the sink. I hope it wouldn't get blocked... -.-; (not my fault not my fault...)

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