Bites without Borders
For Chsitmas of 2014, my brother gave my dad a very small kit to brew his own beer. Since then, my dad's hoby of brewing has grown, and...
Herbal Remedies
If pills and medication isn't really you're thing, and you're looking for a more natural way to heal, herbs and essential oils might be a...
Module 6: Preparedness Plan
An Anthrax Preparedness Plan for Your Apartment Complex This topic is important to me because I live in a large apartment complex that...
Module 5: Microbes and Museums
For this project I visited the Harn Art Museam, located right here in Gainesville, Florida. For a lot of these, I wasn't able to get...
Module 5: Lascaux Virtual Tour Travel Log
For this module we took a virtual tour of cave art in France. Unfortunately, as interesting and valuable as this art is, our rediscoery...
Module 4: Extreme Living
Extremophiles are pretty cool because they live in some crazy enviornments! Here are a few examples. Halococcus - A type of halophile...
Module 3: Fungi Scavenger Hunt
This week we learned all about fungi in our Microbes without Borders class. While everyone tends to thing of strange, exotic mushrooms...
Module 2 Kitchen Lab
This week I attempted to make a homemade agar solution in order to grow a culture of the bacteria off my hand. While I didn't have the...
Module 1: DNA Replication Paperclip Activity
This activity is a great little demonstration of how DNA replicates! This is a very simplified version of DNA replication, but it's a...
Module 1: How We See Microbes - Microscopy Practice
As a microbiology major, I spend a lot of time in the Microbio building! Right now, I'm taking the lab for majors, and I'm really...
