{"id":17,"date":"2019-02-08T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/?p=17"},"modified":"2019-02-08T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:18:24","slug":"blog-week-4-2-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/2019\/02\/08\/blog-week-4-2-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog, week 4\/2\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Student number: 14407928<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eoin Dunne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday the 6th\nof February marked my first day with Teagasc in Athenry Co, Galway. Upon\narrival I received my log in details for the teagasc website and email along\nwith my security pass for access to all rooms and labs in the department. To\ncommence research and lab work I presented my completed training certificates\nfor; laboratory health and safety training, Teagasc safety course and a manual\nhandling training course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Padraig O\u2019Boyle, my\nproject supervisor gave me a tour of the department and showed me how to access\nthe Teagasc document management system (DMS) which I will need to become\naccustomed with before starting my lab work and write up. After I had acquired\nthe general basics I began to print research papers and standard operating\nprocedures which are related to my project and continued to study the papers\nwhich Galina had sent me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday the 7th, I\ncontinued reading research papers and learning SOP\u2019s under Padraig\u2019s guidance,\nI also formulated a list of equipment and materials needed for carrying out my\nlaboratory work based off the 2016 paper on identifying and studying P.\nleydeni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday evening\nPadraig and I carried out a FECPAK test for round worms in the lab which is a\nsedimentation procedure used to identify parasites in the faeces of the\nanimals. This was my first time in the lab and using a SOP which I will be\nusing later for my own research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday the 8th\nof February I scheduled my manual handling practical training and carried out\nthe FECPAK experiment for liver fluke and rumen fluke which is an extension of\nthe work I did on Thursday which involves further sedimentation and using\nmethylene blue to help identify the parasite under a microscope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student number: 14407928 Eoin Dunne Wednesday the 6th of February marked my first day with Teagasc in Athenry Co, Galway. Upon arrival I received my log in details for the teagasc website and email along with my security pass for access to all rooms and labs in the department. To commence research and lab work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/2019\/02\/08\/blog-week-4-2-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog, week 4\/2\/2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eoin-dunne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}