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Monday, April 8, 2019

S2 Week 10

So I took a few weeks break because school has been hectic right now. Sadly I was not able to actively work on my wonderful bacteria :(. But in the meantime,  I had taken more samples. What sucks is that there is a lack of skin type diversity. Oily and combination tends to be the most common skin type and with my samples it shows. This week, I also made media (TSA and TSB). I made it too late in the day and had to put them all in the fridge. The TSA was solid af. Matt suggested that I put the it on the melt cycle on the autoclave. So the next day I did exactly that, except one of the flask needed to be put on the melt cycle twice. Each melt cycle is 48 minutes each. So moral of the story, make sure you have enough time to pour your media.
(I forgot to take a pic of the solid TSA but it literally looked like that tube but except in a flask)
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