Progress Report Oct. 25th!

25/10/2008

Progress Report: 2/5 with respect to proposed goals in August.

 

Note: Due to a personal and professional offense previously posted this post has been edited 9/12/2008

One major goal that I did accomplish was not in the lab but actually cleaning up our model alot. My project has mostly been geared by myself and my model for Neuropeptide-Y function was way to broad including many Kinase Families such as ERK, CamKII and PKA. Yet I found an awesome article where they were analyzing pathways in a very similar receptor and they used a number of techniques to reduce these Kinases to only one family, ERK. This really helps me, because since I am characterizing the receptor by intracellular signaling, I now have more detailed target proteins to Western Blot for.

As for the wet lab work. I have made plates for both bacterial and nematode growth, but I ordered both a while ago and still haven’t received them. In addition, last semester we concluded that we needed antifungals to reduce contaminations.