Hi parents!
Since your girls may not have gotten a chance to email or call you yet, I'd
like to first assure you that they're all alive and well - and having tons of fun! You can rest assured that they're very busy enjoying themselves, and nothing can be better evidence for that than the (unfortunate) fact that they've forgotten to contact you. :)
On the Bioengineering side everyone got a chance to work in our biosafety hoods both yesterday and today. We've been culturing fibroblast and muscle cells which can be seen in the top two pictures. Yesterday the girls also learned about recognizing different types of tissue and looked at them under the microscope. Today they made muscle models out of spaghetti, straws, Kool-aid, and Nerds - they'll be more than willing to show these to you when they get home. Go ahead and ask them about what everything represents. Also today your girls transfected some cells - added DNA - so that the cells will glow green under fluorescent light. Though your girls haven't actually viewed their glowing cells yet (that's on tomorrow's agenda), I'm adding a picture of what they'll look like (bottom picture).
A sneak peak at tomorrow: We're going to look at the role and location of actin in cells. This means your girls will be staining the actin in real cell cultures to glow red under fluorescent light. Also on tomorrow's agenda is using everyday craft materials and some toys to model actin.
Just one more thing I'd like to share with you - we're all so busy here at camp that it's hard for me to find time to call my parents, too. :)
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