Welcome

Dear students, parents, teachers, coordinators and people in general:

First of all, give a warm welcome to a New PIIISA Project. The Project of the 2015-2016 scholar course. This project is a natural ongoing of a research-line dealing with mutagenesis on soil bacteria which begun three years ago in the 2013-14 course. The project will be performed in the Microbiology Department of the Estación Experimental del Zaidín belonging to National Research Council Foundation (CSIC).

Previous PIIISA’s studies have shown that we can measure the mutagenesis speed (evolution speed) of the soil bacteria (Sinorhizobium meliloti). In this new project and under this background we will evaluate if S. meliloti can sense the putative mutagenesis effect of substances or processes. It is a real question and we do not have all the answers. Results of this project, although expected, are unknown for the moment.

Everything related with the Project during the course will be shown on this blog. We also uses resources, links, … . In summary we use all the tools which allow us to finish a fantastic project. Project in which all must feel very proud and aim to participate all around us: our parents, our classmates, teachers, friends, colleagues ... . 

This kind of communication is not completely new. Examples of previous PIIISA project-blogs you can find by clicking the links to the right.

In resources section you can find proceeding articles of the PIIISA job of previous editions. In all of them you can come up that all previous PIIISA Projects were finished as we expected in this new one.

And… , for the moment  nothing else. 

Only,  remind and ask for your invaluable collaboration in this blog.

Come on! Together we will make a great project

Dr Francisco Martinez-Abarca

Estacion Experimental del Zaidin - CSIC

Department of Microbiology

C/ ProfesorAlbareda n 1

18008 Granada

Spain