Week 13 Spring 2019: Ursa Student Leadership Awards

Tonight two of my colleagues, Kassandra and Amanda, and I were awarded The Ursa Student Leadership Award. I am so honored that Dr. Cotter nominated me. It feels amazing to be recognized for the hard work that I do for our amazing research project and STEAM club. I am dedicated to my work and I feel so lucky to be part of the amazing community that is Phoenix College. Thank you to Dr. Cotter for mentoring me and believing in me! And also a big thanks to the whole bioscience department Josh, Matt, Amber, and Dr. Chapman for helping to run this amazing TRAIN Program at PC. You guys are amazing ❤️

Week 12 Spring 2019: finishing up

So we have just a few weeks left to collect the rest of our data. Today the rest of the team is doing SEM analysis on our disks and tomorrow they will be finishing up our remaining FTIR samples. Unfortunately I won't be in the lab tomorrow due to Good Friday my kids have no school. I'm sure the team will have some awesome results. I'll share what I can.
Image above is everything that we have to finish not including SEM analysis

Week 11 Spring 2019: Winners 🥇

The Arizona/Nevada Academy of Sciences Conference went great! We won first place for poster presentation! I am so proud of my team and all of the hard work that we put into our research and of course our posters. The conference was in Yuma, Arizona. We took a nice long hike along the Colorado River on Friday before the conference. My family came out to the conference so it was overall a great experience. I shared an image above of my partner Kassy giving her lighting talk, she did amazing. Two more team members were also able to present at ASU West Symposium this past Tuesday. I think we have one last presentation in a couple of weeks. 

Week 10 Spring 2019: Yuma bound

So I promised to tell you guys about our ASU Tempe Symposium and above are images of the spread they laid out for us. Everything was delicious. The team did amazing and we met other people working with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The key note speaker was also an expert in 2D IR and was very helpful when the team had questions about analyzing our plastics with FTIR. Networking was great. The conference room was a little crowded but overall it was a lovely conference and I would be happy to go back. Now this Friday we head to Yuma for the Arizona Nevada Academy of sciences!

Week 9 Spring 2019: ASU SOLS Conference

So the poster has been printed and today we had our first mock presentation. Of course with  five team members it was not pretty but we will continue to practice up to the conference on Friday after noon. I have to say thanks to all my team mates, even though our poster format was not ideal you all made it look great. This picture is from our practice today, just an outline of how and who will present what. I'll let you all know how it goes next week!

Week 8 Spring 2019: Conference Season!!!!

Hey guys, hope everyone had a great spring break! We are in poster building mode this week. We have our first conference of the semester next Friday. We need to have our poster ready for print by noon tomorrow.  We just started to work on the poster Tuesday. Luckily we are a five person team now so I know we will get it done. Tomorrow we take the rest of our media controls to the FTIR and we get to take aeruginosa by itself to the fFTI as well.

Week 6 Spring 2019: Allergies are the worst

Mold!!!!!!! That is mold contamination on our plate along with something else around our plastic disk. We are still working out protocols and figuring out some background stuff with our FTIR analysis. We will be running analysis on our media tomorrow, should be very interesting considering one of our medias is a custom stock. Stay tuned!