Happy New Year!

Whew! The lab sure is BUSY! This past Monday the whole lab got together to work on "tip isolation".  This means they were removing the "tips" (ends) of Gracilaria they had grown or collected for "assaying".  The simplest definition of an assay is a kind of experimental method.  Sarah let us know that it took 4 people 3 hours of nonstop work to complete this task. Wow! That is 12 man hours!  We also met Glauco Machado, a visiting scientist from Brazil working with Dr. Sotka. What a day!