On Monday, July 22nd, I met with Dr. Gedalanga at our lab and was advised to finish my online training for laboratory safety. So I went to the library to work on my training. It was long and tedious, however, I finished. I proceeded back to the laboratory where Dr. G was and continued shadowing the water filtering and DNA extraction process. My day was rather relaxed so I enjoyed it and later that night I sent an email to Dr. G of my training certificates.
On Tuesday, July 23rd, I was finally allowed to work in the laboratory. I was given instructions to practice my micropipette skills. I was given deionized water to work with. I micropipetted numerous liquid amounts in milliliters (ml). The first experience with the micropipette I had I wasn’t as accurate as I wanted to be. However, the second micropipette exercise I did significantly better and was I very accurate in my skills. I was very pleased.
On Thursday, July 25th, for the majority of the day, I worked on the mid-program powerpoint presentation. In between, I did work on my micro pipetting skills. Next week I will see my results.
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