My first day in the EEZ; my first impression

Last Monday 16^th of November was an incredible day! isn’ t It?

Now we know what we are going to do. And… what is more important!!! We know each-other. All the students which participate in the project, all the secondary schools we belong to, and of course the lab where our research will occur. 

The Microbiology department in the EEZ-CSIC (our research Center).

All of you write a first impression of this astonishing day. I am pretty sure we are going to finish a good project. At least at the level of the previous years. 

Only to remind you what you did last Monday:

We want to know how many bacteria contain a single colony. 

But, what is a single colony?

We decided to distinguish three types:

-Big colonies (>2 mm), 

-medium colonies (2-05 mm) and 

-small colonies (<0.5mm).

We picked  it up 7 + 1 colonies of all these sizes and we made the corresponding serial dilutions to extrapolate how many bacteria are. We must assume that every single colony is generated by a single bacteria!!!.

We are expecting the pictures of the bacterial plates at your home-incubators (drawers of your rooms).

One picture must been taken on Friday 19th. 

Girls!!, Use cameras, cellular smart-phones and do not forget a dark background!!.

“Testing mutagens”  has just begun !!

Dr Francisco Martinez-Abarca

Estacion Experimental del Zaidin - CSIC

Department of Microbiology

C/ ProfesorAlbareda n 1

18008 Granada

Spain