Happy Thanksgiving!

To say this past couples of weeks have been pretty busy would be an understatement. So I crammed for my chemistry test and I did pretty well. Better than I thought I’d do so that is definitely a high point for the week. As for Calc., I’m feeling like I was feeling 2 weeks ago about chemistry; not very good at all. So over the weekend I will be reviewing notes and doing homework… I wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving! And be cautious on the roads as this is the time of year more people tend to drink more. As for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the paper is currently under construction. I need to review the articles I selected, and I am also missing additional data that I am hoping to stumble across in a new article. Be safe everybody.

Project X

So Friday 11/15/13 I went with Matt and Danielle to the park on 7^th Ave. S. of the I10. Danielle is trying to catch a crawdad. I was pretty interested, more so than I thought I’d be. I’ve already talked to Matt about doing something similar, and I got approval. I’m a huge discovery fan, so a project similar to this is perfect for me. Initially, I thought Danielle was going to try and catch critters with food. Turns out they have all the food they need out there to survive; late connection. This Friday 11/22/13 we have made arrangement to head back out there in the morning so I can areas to collect samples or set traps. I will get concrete procedures tomorrow, but for the meantime I have to get back to homework…Danielle should have something good on her next visit; the place is crawling with bugs.

The spiders are everywhere!

Running to make it!

Where to start? I think the hardest thing for me to do is to get started. I’ve been here many times before and I don’t like it, but things get done when I’m in this situation. Time crunches! Feels like as soon as I get up I start working and it feels like I’m barely moving. My fellow STEM buddies are holding it together and in my head I running in circles. So I quickly looked at stress relievers and affirmations came up, but I don’t have time to affirm anything. Ahhhhhh! My next posting won’t be so stressful...I hope. Got to go time is ticking. See you all in lab!

EUREKA!

Well this week has been very busy. Currently, I am in the middle of two review articles. I was not ready for all the science talk. My first couple articles were not too reader friendly. So I had to search the website for more options, and I am so glad I did. I found an article that made more sense, and so much more interesting! I have been learning so much about P. aeruginosa; talk about system overload. The article I’m reading now has promising results. According to an article published in BioMed Central journals, active immunization using exotoxin A confers protection against P. aeruginosa. In this article an experiment was conducted using mice and rabbits that were infected with the P. aeruginosa bacteria. The animals were immunized and became resistant, and the ones that didn’t died, and this is just the beginning of what I found. Next step is to find out if similar test yielded the same results.