I’m off interstate to attend a scientific conference. ✈️ I’ll do a post later about what it’s like to attend a scientific conference as a Ph. D student, but in the mean time, please enjoy a photo of a Panda that encapsulated the Sunday arvo feels so eloquently. (Yes, I […]
Bacteria need food too, just like we do. Some bacteria don’t require much. Give them your basic, bare minimum foods (carbs, proteins/amino acids, salts, etc) and they’ll grow happily. Most bacteria we use in the lab like growing at 37 degrees (our average body temp) under normal atmospheric conditions… And […]
Nothing like weighing 20 different amino acids for your bacteria to grow big and strong… #PhDLife #Science
What does a typical day as a Ph. D student look like? Short answer is that it can chop and change, but this a little snippet of what life is like in a lab… Writing as a wet-lab based Bacteriology Ph. D student residing in Australia I feel like there […]
Part of my Ph. D involves growing up wax moth larvae (Galleria mellonella) to infect them with bacteria. Every time I grow these guys up and sort through them for infections, I just see things wiggling everywhere. I close my eyes, I can see larvae wiggling. I eat dinner, I […]
This post talks about my journey through from third year undergrad to now. I’d gotten into a brand new award offered by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. I was just about to start working in a real research lab alongside actual scientists. Writing as a wet-lab based Bacteriology Ph. […]
Okay, days like today, I’m glad to be indoors… #PhDLife
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