Cathrina GeldardInterview
Naturopath, research assistant, PhD candidate
Adapted from Cathrina Geldard's interview on Uses This, published 21 October 2022. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I grow my static biofilms on Merck polystyrene 96-well plates.
After growing the biofilms in an incubator and staining them purple, the biofilm biomass is measured by reading absorbance at the 595-nanometre wavelength with an iMark Microplate Absorbance Reader.
We use the Transmission Flow Cell FC 285-AL.
With this microscope I can only see there is a biofilm and quantify how much of it there is, but I need more detail than that so we are upgrading to a ZEISS Apotome 3.
Any herbal medicines that show success at fighting biofilms will be classified and characterised by mass spectrometry using the Thermo Scientific ISQ EC Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer.
Mine is a Dell Latitude 5420 with an Intel i5 processor.
I miss the MacBook mostly because I loved having my phone (a second-hand iPhone 11 Pro) synced with the computer so I could receive texts while I work.
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Productivity
For managing citations, I use Zotero 6.0.8.
Browser
But most of my time is spent finding and reading research to keep up with developments in my field, so the software I use the most by far is Google Chrome.
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My university computer runs on Windows 10, so most of the tools I use are whatever Microsoft provides or the university endorses.
For research surveys, such as collecting information about traditional medicine use from practitioners, I use the Qualtrics survey platform.