Monthly Archives: April 2021

Our Progress with Flavobacterium psychrophilum

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Yongtao Zhu

April 16, 2021 Emily Schmidtbauer and Kaela Wierenga Introduction: In this blog post, we will further analyze our endonuclease gene and look at what our next steps have been in our research since April 1, 2021. We are still looking … Continue reading →

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Lab Progression

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Allison Land

By D’Aaliyah Johnson & Matthew Trenne April 13, 2021 Introduction: During the past few weeks since our last blog post — February 27, 2021 — we have continued to work with our miRNA’s, Hsa-Mir-4297 and Hsa-Mir-1207 3p, in the Cancer … Continue reading →

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Bacteria Growth Since Ligation

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Yongtao Zhu

4/7/21 Abby Mueller and Marley Fuhrman Introduction: In our previous blog post the last procedure we did consisted of ligating our gene with the plasmid. Since then, we performed a transformation procedure and then grew the bacteria. We have seen … Continue reading →

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The Beginning of Our Research

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Yongtao Zhu

April 2, 2021 Emily Schmidtbauer and Kaela Wierenga Introduction: In our Bacteria and Disease stream with Dr. Zhu, we are looking at the bacteria Flavobacterium psychrophilum. This bacterium impacts cold water fish and can be seen in the wild but … Continue reading →

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Construction of a Recombinant Plasmid

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Yongtao Zhu

By: Reika Hallett & Zach Leaf Introduction We are part of the “Bacteria and Disease” research stream led by Dr. Zhu in Minnesota State University Mankato. Our primary purpose is to investigate the pathogenic mechanisms of Flavobacterium psychrophilum, which causes … Continue reading →

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