PIIISA secondary students in search of valuable molecules of the olive seed

A group of five secondary school students hold a short stay in our laboratories at the EEZ to work in the identification and characterisation of valuable protein molecules in the olive (Olea europaea L.) seed. They are using basic SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting approaches, with antibodies to molecules putatively present in the olive seed extracts, i.e. antibodies to Seed Storage Proteins of the 11S-type, catalase, peroxidase and others. They take part of the PIIISA (Project to Introduce Research and Innovation into Secondary Schools in Andalucia) initiative