Smart Water and Microtox

This past week I have been down the coast at the Smart Water centre. This centre is owned by Griffith University and used for doing water testing on many different subjects. Recently they have been doing a lot of work into estrogens and androgens in the water. Our trip down there started on Wednesday where we took our samples down there to perform microtox testing on them. This basically means using luminessent bacteria on the concentrated samples to determine whether there is anything toxic about the chemicals that we extracted.

Me preparing a plate of luminessent bacteria for the microtox assay.

For the most part the samples went well and we had all of them done by the Friday when we returned back up the coast. Now comes the fun bit. We have to analyse all the data from our samples and construct dose-response curves for all of them. The analisys of the samples will be put in to the final report that we need to write about the samples due in a couple of weeks. It will take quite a few weeks to write so I'm going to have to start soon. Unfortunatly with all the other assignments also due in the next few weeks time is one thing there won't be much of. Still, that's what uni is about.