Lab Notebook

Today marks day 5 of the multi-species experiment. We’ve done one time-series sampling day (Day 3). We also had some disease sign sampling (Day 5), and added in a little extra sampling for Melanie’s pathogen discovery work. Details on sampling scheme plan and other observations in the post. [Read More]

Today, we started the multi-species experiment! Very exciting! Details in post below. [Read More]

Likely to start soon!!! Waiting for the adult that has been exposed to another wasting adult to show signs of twisting, then the coelomic fluid from that star will be used to inject into the Friday Harbor stars (raw for exposed, and heat-killed for control), and then the Friday Harbor... [Read More]

Today we co-housed the three species that will be part of our multi-species experiment. [Read More]

Hello! I’m back! I have been working for Drew Harvell as a technician on two projects: Sea Star Wasting Disease and Eelgrass Wasting Disease. I am turning the three-years-worth of work I did on the sea star project into an upcoming PhD, and will also be doing one chapter on... [Read More]