I do sincerely apologize for the extended hiatus. I have been dealing with some personal and mental health issues for the past month. I won’t go into detail here. Also, not much has happened for much of May that is actually relevant to my project. I’ve been working an internship at the Kaufman Music Center […]

Apologies for the lack of blog posts! Throughout these past few weeks, I continuously performed experiments with the droplets where I varied either volume fraction or ferrofluid concentration and allowed the droplets to align at 50C for an hour, in order to determine the optimal conditions for creating chains of a certain length. Because of […]

Last week’s experiments found that changing the ferrofluid concentration had interesting effects on the rate at which the droplet chains began forming, so we decided to continue exploring that this week.  During the entire week, I tested samples with ferrofluid diluted 4 and 8 times. Instead of only aligning the droplets for 5 minutes and […]

Hey blog! It’s nice to see you, welcome to the trials and tribulations of week 9– I’ve got lots to share today! Previously, we sterilized and plated a few groups of alfalfa seeds for a germination test. Additional to those, I worked with Matias to select and plan a genetic map of our fluorescent Azospirillum […]