<p>I really don’t know</p>
<p>^Are you SURE? I’ve never heard about this.</p>
<p>And I just realized that I used blood agar (using defibrinated rabbit blood from a biotech company) and didn’t put a IACUC number for my lab. I’m not sure if I’d even need one for it since I didn’t prepare the agar plates and it wasn’t used in the experiment for testing purposes etc. But if what mianahrs said is true…YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES im not disqualified lol</p>
<p>unless the disqualification notification comes by mail…</p>
<p>Semifinalists and Regional Finalists are posted on the website. RFs get a phone call later in the day to get info so they can start arranging transportation and sending info about the backboard and presentation rules.</p>
<p>Can someone verify what mianahrs said?</p>
<p>I called CB and they replied that not notification of disqualification has been made.</p>
<p>oh wow so my advisor was wrong. Sorry guys!</p>
<p>lol, I seemed to use an irregular type of reference method, but I hope my project won’t get disqualified for its oddness</p>
<p>@crimsonuser Why are you even worrying? If you are using established cell lines or already processed tissues/cells, you don’t need an IACUC. The IACUC approval is mainly for live animals and or tissue from euthanized animals, like in the lab you were in.</p>
<p>^well, for one, I used commercialized rabbit blood for blood plates. blood is technically not an established cell line. But CB said it was fine since it’s commercial blood. Also, my project involves infecting live animals with an agent (that is asymptomatic in them so don’t kill me PETA). Except, while this is a part of my project, I didn’t carry this out since I’m not entitled to. This was done in another lab by an associate of my mentor. And it was done several years back. I used bacterial isolates taken from the animals’ bloodstream. Thus, it’s a big part of my project but I had no contact with these animals/their fluids etc. (since I wasn’t allowed to in the first place) and it was done a while back (but I’m publishing the data as a part of the project since I basically extracted the data from the bacteria growing from the blood that was extracted and analyzed the data). So yeah.</p>
<p>^ So you used samples collected from your lab’s previous experiments? What did you discover or improve on? Because thats what Siemens is looking for.</p>
<p>yeah…ur just recycling your mentors work right there.</p>
<p>^No. I didn’t repeat what my mentor did. What I did was take the samples and discover something from those specimen. Besides, its not a repetition. The data in my project spans a few years and it’s original. My mentor had the raw isolates and I analyzed and refined the data. That was just one part. The other was that I took isolates at different time points and ran experiments on them then analyzed the results. So, no, I didn’t recycle my mentor’s work.</p>
<p>I actually discovered something very significant.</p>
<p>What was it on? And what is its applicability in the real world? I haven’t understood your project yet, lol.</p>
<p>future Nobel Prize expected for my project.</p>
<p>I’d rather not say. I can, however, tell you that it does very much have an applicability in the real world.</p>
<p>^Wow. That’s great! What region are you in?</p>
<p>Why like it matters now? = =</p>
<p>^No. Just in case I do make it to regionals etc. and someone finds out my identity, no matter how slim the chance is. I’d rather not risk that happening lol</p>
<p>“in case I do make it to regionals etc”
I think it’s rather premature to worry about such matters</p>
<p>Lol they don’t even tell you the projects of regional finalists…unless you make it to nationals. -_-</p>
<p>^^There’s no such thing as premature precaution. It’d be stupid to put the info here and worry about it later.</p>
<p>^Who knows? Maybe I’ll get to nationals maybe I won’t. Besides, there’s still Intel and ISEF left</p>