Author Archives: Yongtao Zhu

By: Nikita Damyan, Losel Baro, Zhelah Guzeh Introduction:  We have come to the end of our group’s part of the research and process to create a deletion mutant of the adhesin and motility gene, sprB, in the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum. … Continue reading →

James Hawco and Jake Lohn Introduction: The majority of our time from the last post to this one has been waiting for various colonies to grow since conjugation is a process that takes place on different media for it to … Continue reading →

Zhelah Guzeh. Losel Baro, and Nikita Damyan Introduction                   We were selected for the Bacteria and Disease research stream at Minnesota State University Mankato, led by Dr. Yongtao Zhu. The purpose of our stream is to delete the sprB gene … Continue reading →

October 4, 2022 James Hawco and Jake Lohn Introduction: Since our last blog post, we have successfully obtained the fpsY deletion mutant from a wildtype background of F. psychrophilum. The mutant has shown a few differences (phenotypes) compared to the … Continue reading →

Losel Baro, Nikita Damyan, Zhelah Guzeh Introduction: Over the last couple of weeks, we have finished working with the cloning of upstream region of the sprB gene and have begun work on the downstream region. The work we have been … Continue reading →