Going away dinner for Munira Ali. We will miss you Munira and good luck with medical school!
Emily Morgan works with a videographer from JOVE to shoot our protocol describing how to enrich for microbiome bacteria in wild-caught nematodes
Check out her paper and video here:
Selective cleaning of wild Caenorhabditis nematodes to enrich for intestinal microbiome bacteria
Sampling rotten leopard plant stems, Farfugium japonicum. We found both Pristionchus and C. elegans here!
Sample processing
We can’t get one of our microbiome bacterial strains to grow in vitro, so we’re trying to make media out of rotten apple sauce. If this doesn’t work, on to rotten bananas. BTW the only reason they’re all smiling is because they know I’m taking a picture. Its actually pretty disgusting!
Sampling the spotted leopard plant by the music building.
Processing the samples in the lab.
Jonah Faye finds a wild C. elegans (nuclei stained blue) that is coated around the cuticle with an unknown bacteria (stained green).
The tail end of a worm coated with bacteria (green).
We’ve gone sampling again with Shrek’s lab. Hope we find some new Pristionchus and new bacterial infections!
Tuan sampling some disgusting rotten fruit from what looks like Philodendron bipinnatifidum.
Tuan, Jonah Faye, and a visiting undergrad Davin Lee.
Emily Morgan presenting her poster at the 22nd International C. elegans meeting at UCLA
The Luallen Lab in front of Jonah Faye Longares’ poster at the 22nd International C. elegans meeting
Our lab and members of Shrek’s lab from the Salk went sampling around the SDSU campus for wild nematodes in rotting fruits and stems. Let’s hope some of them are infected!
Day 232 (Jan 28, 2019). We’ve got scopes, incubators, PCR machine, freezers and fridges. Its time for experiments!
Day 173 (Dec 1, 2018). We have our Nikon fluorescent upright and stereoscopes ready and set up. Now we can take pretty pictures and do mutagenesis screens.
Day 121 (Oct 10, 2018) The incubators have arrive. Now the worms can get off the benches and into a more stable environment.
Day 103 (Sept 22, 2018). We’ve got stereomicroscopes coming in so we can see the worms. Now we can go sampling!
Day 45 (July 26, 2018). Demoing a Nikon fluorescent upright microscope. These worms have GFP expressed in the muscle.
Day 36 (July 17, 2018). Got a bunch of boxes to store our worms. Small victories!
Day 1 (June 12, 2018) of the Luallen Lab. An empty lab and office.
