The astrobiology and astrogeographrapy crews aboard Port60 orbiting Earth had recently been established and our mission was to work along side Alien Ports established in the system to continue our human efforts to understand origins of life from bacteria through lizard in our solar system and trace lineage from several foreign microbes found on asteroids throughout the system and galaxy. Port60 was designed to be studying one specific specimen of interest abducted from an asteroid surrounding Neptune in the rings. I'm John, and I helped to discover, harvest, and study some of the most promising bacteria specimens found recently. Although I cannot accept all the credit for the research, it was the entire crew's effort. For the first 5 years after I'd gotten my laboratory certificate, I'd done what most graduate scientists did, which was world for themselves in what was usually a home-based lab. I was educated in Center City and relocated to Arizona State City a few years after I'd began my home laboratory. It wasn't difficult to become respected in any field while living in Center city, any accomplishment seemed to be granted an award of some kind, and I felt that my work on in-rock bacteria was prematurely awarded after a new species discovery before I was 30 years old. Almost every independent scientist had won an award for a new discovery, idea, …show more content…
I'd seen one acting as receptionist at one of the retail centers I'd visited. I was intimidated still at their size and scales and teeth. I couldn't compose myself around her, I was jittery and probably acted embarrassed. I smiled and waved and then left with some information leaflets on available
Throughout history humanity has been fascinated by the existence of extraterrestrial life. Today such ventures are in the development process and the discovery of life beyond our solar system, no matter how primitive, may soon become a huge(important?) scientific breakthrough. The three basic things that are required to consider a place even remotely habitable are water, a source of energy, and organic materials. Habitability also depends on other factors that must also be taken into consideration such as how close the planet is to its star (in the case of our solar system, the sun), how long the water and organic materials existed there, and the size and mass of the planet. One must not confuse habitable with inhabited. The term
When my parents met me after the graduation ceremony, I recognized how proud they were; they came to this country for their children to be successful, and seeing my diploma, they knew they made the correct decision. Of course, I alone would not have been able to get to that point; along the way, I recognized the importance of community and teamwork. The support from my community in the government-subsidized projects of Starrett City enabled me to integrate effectively into American society. Consequently, they encouraged me to dedicate myself to a career that assists the underserved, which I began doing through a program such as Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. My curiosity as a child to learn about American culture and integrate my Bukharian Jewish values with it allowed me to develop a passion for research and discovery, compelling me to explore novelties at Hunter College and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Furthermore, the determination and resourcefulness I showed to excel academically taught me the value of initiative and leadership, which manifested itself through my efforts to reopen the Chemistry Club at Hunter College and also my organization of shadowing opportunities for fellow research associates. The culmination of the lessons that I learned and qualities that I developed, combined with the compassion and empathy that my mother’s
There are many reasons for knowing the identity of microorganisms. The reasons range from knowing the causative agent of a disease in a patient, so as to know how it can be treated, to knowing the correct microorganism to be used for making certain foods or antibiotics. This study was done by applying all of the methods that I have been learned so far in the microbiology laboratory class for the identification of an unknown bacterium.
Microbes are bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. The earth was formed 4.6 million years ago. And a few million years later, by 3.5 billion years ago, earth was already inhabited by a diversity of organisms. The earliest organism is Prokaryotes and within the next billion years, two distinct groups of prokaryotes called bacteria and archaea diverged. Eukaryotes cell evolved from a prokaryotes community, a host cell containing even smaller prokaryotes .The microbial world accounted for all known life forms for nearly 50 to 90% of Earth's history. We are still researching microbial organisms today in marine environment, extreme environments. A microbial observatory is an NSF-funded project dedicated to the discovery and characterization of novel microorganisms and microbial communities of diverse
The main objective was to identify an unknown organism by utilizing skills we learned in our labs this semester. The purpose was to attain the possible identity of the unknown organism by actually performing biochemical tests and staining techniques we learned in lab. After performing and analyzing the results, we were able to use Bergey’s Manual of Systemic Bacteriology as a guideline to narrow down the genus of our organism test by test.
Special Event 1 will require you to watch a video from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lecture Series titled Microbe Hunters. The video is 1 hour in length. You may start and stop the video as you answer the following questions. When you have completed the questions please submit your answers via email to your instructor for Special Event 1 points.
Being a Cancer Biology Research Assistant was by far my most meaningful achievement. This meant so much to me because I was finally able to do life changing research. Through my research I was able to know I am bring a smile of hope to cancer patients across the world. Research is the basis of our society today. Everything achieved in history is achieved through research based off of a question.
Thereafter, I decided to pursue a career in the biological sciences with an emphasis in Microbiology/Molecular Biology to further understand how postharvest diseases affect many crops, and why foodborne pathogens infect humans. While continuing my general education at the College of the Sequoias, I became involved in various clubs and organizations in my community college, including the Science, Engineering, Technology, Association (SETA), and the Alpha Gamma Honors Society where we make collaborative efforts to raise funds for student scholarships and provide valuable volunteer opportunities such as providing food for needy families and accomplishing local ecological restorations.
During the final experiment for Microbiology will have to figure out the unknown organism given to us. The organisms will be narrowed down by using skills we have learned throughout the lab this quarter and the test results will narrow down to a single organism. The reason to perform experiments that determines the identity of bacterium is to find out how to treat it or what infections it is causing. In a controlled environment, students learned how to use various methods to determine how to differentiate between multiple bacteria. This lab report will be detailed steps explaining how to determine the identity of my unknown organism number 12.
The extraordinary film 'Life of Pi' directed by Oscar-Winning director Ang Lee has caused responders to feel empowered with its wide-eyed spirituality and magic realism. A film that was deemed 'unfilmable' can change everything you thought you knew about yourself. The physical, emotional and spiritual discoveries the main protagonist Pi encounters throughout the unimaginable story is what changes the responders perception. The film ultimately conveys how an individual's discovery can change their perspective of themselves and the world. The related text 'Time and Tide' by Tim Winton also explores a similar concept of discoveries.
The next group of students are still buzzing with anticipation for this award! Some of this work was met by opposition throughout the year, but in the end, it served to change the landscape for our EL population. I sincerely hope those changes last. I learned that 50 students can be easily overlooked, but they don’t have to be.
The author of the article is John Bohannon who wrote under the pseudo name of Johnannes Bohannon. He has a PhD in molecular biology of bacteria. He is a journalist who conducted a sting operation for Science on free changing open access journals in which he aimed at bringing to light the irresponsible publishing of scientific articles without any background investigation or scrutiny of reputed journals.
He first took interest in the world of microbes at age 11, and stopped never since. His undergraduate studies were completed with excellence at the University of Maine, followed by PhD research at Brown University. In the following years, he continued his work on bacteria in several institutes including the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Georgetown University, University of Washington, and today he is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in the department of Microbiology.
TEXAS- Ceres, the not so popular dwarf planet, grabs the attention of many when scientists find bacteria on it. Yesterday the NASA rover Strawberry found bacteria on the planet’s surface. Scientists can now see if there is life that can grow and develop on another planet besides Earth. Making this discovery lead many to think that sooner or later Ceres may become a habitable environment with new species.
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