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Week 1

Submitted by Jordan Nakayama on June 11, 2009 - 9:38pm

With my first week of work at CMOP coming to an end I can honestly say I have been enjoying myself. Working with my mentor Jon Schnorr I have been able to complete two Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplifications of Archaea DNA samples collected from the Columbia River plume by Dr. Mariya Smit. I believe the goal of this project is to study the microorganisms of the Columbia River, its estuary, and plume using the PCR method of DNA analysis. While not extremely difficult the process has been time consuming taking up a majority of the last two days with most of wednesday being attributed to getting acquainted with the lab and procedures. Also one sample had to be run twice with an increased concentration of DNA to make the amplification process more efficient. Anyway I'm stoked the weekend is here. It will be nice to enjoy a few days off before getting started again...Yatta!

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