I woke up this morning and realized that I did not post a blog yesterday... But we had a great day yesterday because we got really positive results back. The western blot that we have been running for the past three days with bloodfed vs. nonbloodfed showed phosphorylated tyrosine in the bloodfed mosquitoes and it was not seen in the non-bloodfed mosquitoes which is what was expected.
It was also good because I took a lot of pictures for my presentation next week and everyone thought that was fun. I was also able to take some pretty cool pictures of dissections through the microscope lense which I didn't think was going to work. This was my favorite of the dissections. From the left to right is the head, thorax, and abdomen of an Aedes aegypti mosquito. We seperate these parts in order to test the presence of peptides in certain areas of the mosquito.
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