On 9/28 we took 3 mL of TGY broth and placed it in a 15 mL flacon tube to prepare for inoculation on Saturday. Chad did a 4 way streak to begin growing the Gobi and allow to inoculate over night.
On 9/29 we heated up the TGY broth that has agar to begin plating. The plates had some growth visible but no individual colonies. We did a gram stain on the culture that grow to look for grape like clusters of cells. Rebecca took a cluster of cells straight from the plates into a slide that has 5 micro-liters of TGY broth. The gram stain showed gobi was present but the heat fix caused the cells to turn black instead of purple.

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  1. Kassandra BarreraOctober 18, 2018 at 7:48 PM

    Great progress! Can you say that you have been learning a lot along the way? How will you will be using what you are learning right now and use it to apply it to your project that you plan on working with during the semester?

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