I had to redo my second round of purification because the second round came back without any presenting plaque colonies. However, it was redone and there were many plaque/phage colonies this week and I prepared my third round of purifications today and they are incubating now until Wednesday’s lab. About half the phage group has found their phage, so far. In all honesty, it seems that it was a “luck of the draw” sort of deal in terms of who cultivated a phage. However, new soil samples are being made and the search continues both with arthrobacter sp and with micobacter sm hosts.