Hi!

This semmester I’m back to school for one last semmester and back to Dr. Arturo Massol’s lab. After my last summer experience, we have decided to give our project a little twist.

Since it has been so difficult to isolate the DNA utilizing culture independent methods and we do not have a genomic filing of the microbial comunnities, we decided to do both, culture dependent and culture independent. This approach is virtually opposite of the previous one but will provide more quantities of DNA that can allow us a more effective screening of the cultivable microbial communities. 

I hope to achieve my previous goals with this new approach. I know this experience will be different from other beacuse of the techniques I will use and so I’m looking forward to it. This project has a  great potential for a master’s student, so I’ll try to make it work so someone else can keep on with it.

I’ll keep you posted!!