1/13/19 Blog

After winter break, I am coming back refreshed, motivated and ready to work hard to finish my project by the end of the year. I was unable to meet with Regina Radan, a research professor at UC Santa Cruz who works in the Kudela lab over break but am planning on meeting with her by the end of January. I have a couple more goals set for January as well. The first step I need to have completed in order to make any progress is to have a working set of methods. I am planning on looking over these with Dr. Radan as well as taking a tour of her setup and gaging the possibility of acquiring Pseudo-nitzschia from the Kudela Lab. By the end of the month I need to have a draft of an introduction, a set of methods I can work with as I start culturing and testing in February, an organized timeline to visualize my last couple months of senior year and complete my project, and I need to know where I will be getting the Pseudo-Nitzschia. I finally feel like I have enough time and information to make the big step forward and am planning to ride this wave of momentum up until the end of senior projects to complete what I set out to do and have research that others can look at and add onto after I leave.