Visiting Microbiology

Before the tutorial on Monday we went to see a PHD student Gavin Bingley in the Microbiology department to discuss whether we could grow our own moulds so that we could use our own images to draw from and get inspiration from.

This is an image of us in Gavin's room collecting our Agar plates.
We then took these and left them in different places for an hour so collect germs and bacteria, then we took them back to be incubated so as to grow mould we could work from ourselves.

I loved doing this. It was so interesting going to a department I hadn't been to before. It was so clinical and clean and white and we had to sterilise our hands and wear lab coats. I love that we have collaborated with a different department and have actually sought out the help we needed ourselves.