At MSUM I participated in undergraduate research each semester. This was a great opportunity to do some independent work in the lab and receive credits for working on a project with a professor.

One of the semesters I worked with another student running DNA extraction assays on liverworts. From what I remember, we cleaned the liverworts well, processed the plant material down and then centrifuged with silica beads. I don’t remember the process exactly, but we probably used a kit similar to this one.

We also amplified the DNA we extracted using PCR.