Safety First

It has been my first full week at BRDG Park and I'm ready to get into the labs and start learning. We have covered the basics of safety and identifying lab equipment and their purposes. It was a bit of a bumpy start with micro pipetting but I think I have mastered the skill. One micro pippeting lab I enjoyed was pipetting colored water and making a picture in the 96 well plate. My first design was the double helix of DNA and I created my own design of a larger scale double helix. I also successfully made my first gel electrophoresis! I worked on pipetting into the small wells as well as pipetting in the wells submerged in buffer solution. All together our work in the lab is off to a great start and excited to try more things in the lab!

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