Extracting biomarkers from corals
These photos of Katie Sheline ’13 prepping samples of corals for biomarker analysis, were taken a few weeks ago, but we just ran the extracts on the GCMS. This was a quick first pass attempt to see what compounds would be obtained. The expected fatty acids and sterol biomarkers were observed. Now comes the quantification aspect to determine the quantity of material need for the Gulf of Mexico project.
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- coral samples
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- prepping for crushing
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- hammer
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- crush
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- post hammer
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- mortar and pestle
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- small enough
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- ready for extraction
