On Tuesday and Wednesday, Mrs. Yates’ team preformed tests on the two machines that we had discussed last Monday. Unfortunately, someone on her team did not order the staining plates to test the quantum reader, so they were only able to test the incubator.
(temperature probe attached to computer)
The incubator tests are done in 2 phases. The first phase is the empty phase where the only insert a temperature probe to be sure the temperature is uniform throughout the test and does not waiver. The second phase is the full test where her team will put cell culture dishes full of water (instead of media) into the incubator. These culture dishes have to be labeled with what they contain, the date, and Mrs. Yate (or the project supervisor’s) initials for the safety of everyone in the lab. To be sure temperature is constant, they will insert temperature probes into the water in the media plates and just laying inside the incubator. Once the incubator has run for 24 hours, everything is taken out and the temperature probes are hooked up to a system that will plot the data in a graph that shows temperature vs time (the same as phase 1). This will indicate if the temperature was consistent and if the incubator passed the test.
