Congratulations to this Gateway sophomore and her family, on the occasion of her successful team research presentation on "Bacteria in Our Environments" at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT this past Saturday. During this project, students grew bacterial cultures from samples taken from their own living environments; replicated, purified and sequenced the bacterial DNA using PCR and gel electrophoresis; identified the DNA sequences using the BLAST database tool; and then constructed phylogenetic trees to characterize the evolutionary relationships among their various bacteria types.
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