I am currently taking the Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease course at UW Friday Harbor Labs until July 19th. It’s been super fun and has really made me even more excited to be in this field and studying disease!
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Sampling for D-hinge development
Today I sampled the buckets for D-hinge development. Overall numbers were low, considering that we put 300,000 eggs in each bucket. The best group was treatment group 2: no KCl exposure, but fertilized. Details in post:
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Day 1 of Trial 2 of Geoduck Stripspawn experiment - KCl dose + duration
Today was Day 1 of the second trial of geoduck stripspawn. We created an experimental design that takes into account both KCl dosage, and duration of the dose exposure. Overall things went pretty well (details in post), and on Wednesday, I’ll check for D-hinge development.
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Geoduck Egg Development - 3 days later
Today we took a look under the scope of the eggs in the silos from Friday’s egg development trial (Notebook post).
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Geoduck Egg Development Test at Taylor Hatchery
Today I looked into trying to figure out why we saw polar body development as early as we did last week during the first trial of KCl-dosage experiments (Day1, Day2). Details of the experiment are below, but there was egg development in the negative control (no sperm, no KCl), so...
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