Sarah Experimenting with temperature

This past week I exposed some Gracilaria samples to a range of temperatures between 30-50 degrees Celsius by putting them in the Thermal Cycler that we use for PCRs. One set of samples was exposed to the temperatures for 15 minutes and the other set for 30 minutes. We then cultured the samples in the wet lab for a week and checked them every other day. The samples exposed to the highest temperature (50) were completely bleached after a week, so it looks like this is the upper range of temperatures they can tolerate. We are still playing around with culturing methods and different ways of exposing samples to different temperatures.