🧪 Lab life week 3! With my amazing PhD mentor Lee, we filtered, plated, and streaked bacteria to hunt for E. coli, Salmonella & Pseudomonas. DNA’s extracted & ready for sequencing next week—our ecosystem’s molecular profile is coming together! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

🧬 After extracting DNA from water samples, Mia checked quality via gel electrophoresis—success! The 16S region was intact. Now she is running Nanopore sequencing to ID bacteria & explore microbial diversity. Results coming soon… stay tuned! #EnvironmentalMicrobiology #WeAreNCL

Hello! I’m Mia, a 2nd-year Molecular Cell Biology student at the University of York. Over the next 6 weeks, I'll be at Newcastle University, researching bacterial diversity with Dr. Matt Bawn using Nanopore Sequencing. Excited to explore local ecosystems and develop my lab skills! 🧬🔬 #Microbiology

Summer Research Placement – Investigating Environmental Microbes in Newcastle Using @nanoporetech.com Sequencing! Join us at @newcastleuni.bsky.social to explore environmental microbiomes More info & application: generationresearch.ac.uk/studentships... #Microbes #Bioinformatics #Genomics