Second Entry
Sadly our current situation in our lab is very critical. In fact, if I had to be honest I’ll say that in a scale to one to five our research’s progress will be a two; we have achieved at least 10% of our goals. This may seem not so good, but it’s better than having nothing, I guess.
The humidity in our lab has a lot to do with this limiting us significantly for not letting us use certain components (including sugars), since it will surely result in contamination. While working with plants it is of great important not to exclude certain components such as sugars, because after all sugar is essential to plant’s growth. It is for this reason that we have tried remake all our experiments using sugar, especially when our aseptic methods seemed to improve greatly (our main goal from last semester). Basically we haven’t incorporated any new techniques. The results showed a few survivors (this is the part which I owe the 2 in progress), but still most of them ended up severely contaminated. Sometimes I feel (and my partner Sully agrees with me) that we should rather investigate the orchids’ parasites (fungus) given that is the only thing that seems to grow efficiently in our medium. To make things even more frustrating, the few that survived are dying for other causes.
Right now what we are doing is pointing out the possible variables that are not letting us proceed with the project. We have managed to indicate one, which is probably the main reason to our work’s failure so far. I’m counting on this, because if this doesn’t work we might have to start all over again and this kind of stresses me. On the other hand, I’m also aware that this is all part of a process that all scientists have to go through.
Hola Juan, no te preocupes que como dices al final… todo cientifico pasa por estos momentos de crisis en su investigacion. Yo estoy en las mismas se supone que estoy buscando levaduras de ecosistemas marinos que son resistentes a antibioticos y en vez de las levaduras estan creciendo muchas bacterias lo cual nos atrasa todo ya que ahora tenemos que buscar los factores que estan permitiendo el crecimiento de estas bacterias. Asi que tranquilo!! Todo estara bien, la investigacion es todo una aventura y asi se esta viendo ” con altas y bajas” … informame cuando todo mejore. Bendiciones- Isabelita
pls continue writing about ur project
im interested with it =)