Even though none of this went quite like I expected, I’ve got to say this has been one of the funnest things. It’s been a fantastic semester, everybody. I’m pumped to dive in deeper this spring.

Ok, now I’m finally moving again. Last week, I adopted Aparna’s phage. My phage had spent too much time in the lysate and apparently it all degraded, because none of the lysates I had remaining were able to revive it. Therefore, I had two options: get more soil samples, or adopt. Given that it is currently December, I chose to adopt. Since adopting, I have gone through the DNA isolation processes and I performed the photospectrometry this Wednesday. I got 1458 ng/microliter, which is apparently pretty good. In all, I am finally moving again. Nice work on your phage, Aparna, it is serving me well!