Week 6

 Week 6 was highlighted by the tuesday project presentations. I had been pretty nervous since I had only recently started my individual project but overall I feel that things went well. As for working on my project I had a busy week running various PCR reactions trying to get primers to work. Early on I had trouble doing so and had begun to worry that the primers were no good but from reactions run thursday at a lower temperature of 48 degrees I was successfully able to amplify. I also ran a reaction with Amoa primers and will run a gel for those products on monday. The other thing I was able to accomplish this week was the designing of 3 primer sets using the CLC sequence designer software. Hopefully these arrive by next week so I can test them out.