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A Typical Day-- Week 5

Posted by Vera Cecelski on 2008-07-20 in Duke, fungi, lab, mushrooms, typical-day, Vilgalys
Day-to-day in my lab is relatively routine.I arrive earlier than the other members of the team working on my project, and sort through the dozens of plates, in all different stages of growth, for contamination or any useful observations...
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The Pleurotus Project, Week 4

Posted by Vera Cecelski on 2008-07-07 in fungi, genetics, mushrooms, research-question, species, species-concept
So, remember that definition of a species you learned in your freshman bio class? That's the generally accepted biological species concept, that a species consists of individuals that demonstrate their genetic similarities by being able to successfully interbreed with each other and only each other....While we know this biological species concept works for the animal kingdom, science doesn't yet have a constant rule that can be applied across the board to all species. Speciation is still a bit of a mystery. And that's especially because we don't have enough data, so BAM! that's right where my research goes.
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In the beginning...

Posted by Vera Cecelski on 2008-06-17 in duke, first-day, lab, mushrooms, mycology, science
I'm Vera, a rising senior at Jordan High School in Durham. I've just started working in the mycology lab at Duke, helping out with a graduate student's project looking at speciation and hybrids between oyster mushroom species. Frankly, I'm a wee bit lost...
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The First Week

Posted by Morgan Kearse on 2008-06-14 in fungi, mushrooms, Pleurotus, Week-1
My first look into the world of fungi!
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