Hi! My name is Madina! I am from Kazakhstan. I love chemistry. Nice to write about my day!
After delicious breakfast at the Forest Centre, we headed to the lab where our bacterial colonies should have been waiting since yesterday. For the first time in a long time in the history of Biochem IU, we failed to grow bacteria, but that’s okay. I guess we can do it again.
Photo: Unsuccessful bacteria :(((
Then, we headed to the lectures where Dr James and Dr Hollenbeck explained to us how recombinant DNA technology and recombinant protein expression works. The lectures, by the way, were in the Chemistry building, where I have noticed Hamiltanion operator signs on the wall outside and a couple of other signs from the Schrödinger equation.
Photo: Schrödinger signs on Chemistry building
Next, we went outside the perimeter and tried some coconut bubble tea.
Photo: bubble tea
Then, we went to the park where we played volleyball. It was awesome to play as a team.
After that, we headed to the Science Library where we familiarised ourselves with Scopus, Zotero and other tools for academic research writing.
Then, in groups of 5 we discussed how cultivating uncultured bacteria can be prototypical of how people with different backgrounds interact in society. After reading the article, we rethought some things from a different aspect.
To get our bacteria colonies, we – Talija and Charlie headed to the lab at 9pm. Tomorrow we will find out if we succeeded this time.
Photo: lab
