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Team:Calgary/25 June 2009
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| - | + | * From the results, only one sequencing reaction was successful. The mutated site was successfully done. However, the forward and reverse reactions (both mutated and non-mutated) did not result in any sequencing. The lab is willing to repeat the sequencing reaction. | |
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| - | + | Getting BBK LuxOD47E into the psB1AC3 Vector | |
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| - | + | Objective: Now that I have LuxOD47E with BBK sites, I need to get it into the psB1AC3 vector, as it also has the biobrick sites in it. I did this through a restriction digest of the plasmid I isolated yesterday and the psB1AC3 vector using both EcoRI/PstI and XbaI/PstI for the insert as well as both EcorI/ PstI and XbaI/PstI for the vector. I left this to digest ovenright in the 37°C waterbath. | |
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Today, I called up a couple of oil and gas companies to do a follow up on our sponsorship package. Most them rejected our sponsorship proposal. I will continue to contact more companies that me and Prima found. | Today, I called up a couple of oil and gas companies to do a follow up on our sponsorship package. Most them rejected our sponsorship proposal. I will continue to contact more companies that me and Prima found. | ||
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| - | + | Sequencing results came back for construction. Analysis included VecScreen and BLAST. Glycerol stocks were made (500uL overnight culture with 500uL of 50% glycerol). | |
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| - | + | Screening more colonies of LuxPQ in psB1AK3 | |
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| - | + | Purpose: to verify the presence of LuxPQ in a BBK vector. Colonies 8, 9, 10, and 11 of LuxPQ in psB1AK3 were screened by pTaq colony PCR with the following sets of forward and reverse primers: LuxPQ, BBK and BBK CP. The following conditions were used: 94ºC for 6 minutes; 36X (94ºC for 30 seconds; 52ºC for 45 seconds for LuxPQ-F/R primers (or 50ºC for 45 seconds for BBK F/R primers, or 52ºC for 45 seconds for BBK CP F/R primers); 72ºC for 4 minutes); 72ºC for 10 minutes; held at 4ºC. The products were then run on a 0.8% agarose gel, along with a restriction digest of colonies 1-7 with NotI (see below). Looking through all of the wells, it becomes evident that there are no bands at ~3.8kb (the size of LuxPQ), and as such, we must start back from linear LuxPQ with the BBk restriction sites and clone it back into a BBK vector. | |
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| - | + | Gel Electrophoresis in Second Life | |
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| - | + | Today, I finished building necessary components and equipment for gel electrophoresis in Second Life. All that is left is the texture of the volt box and the pictures of the gels. I was also able to script the activity with Katie's PCR script as the basis of the inventory insert. | |
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| - | + | The script has been tested and I troubleshot the GELBOX saying it had the gel inside when it didn't get, and got it to communicate with the computer in order for the computer to give the picture of the gel to the user. | |
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| - | + | Retrospective Notebook: This entry was not written on this day, but derived later from working notes I made that day. | |
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| + | Initially, I was sending the display messages to each of the 120 display tiles by name, using chat messages. This was extremely slow... and because each object only has a 100 message queue, and each object received every message whether it was the intended recipient or not, some tiles would have their message dropped! Naming all of the display tiles accurately also turned out to be obnoxious, as a handful of typos didn't become obvious until much later. | ||
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| + | The basic outlines of the HUD were established: a main menu, the unbind screen, the build screen a level selection screen, as well as 'count mode'. Count mode would be renamed interaction checker, the idea being that I could check whether the user had made an error in using the biobrick simulator by checking each object for interactions it could have with other objects. The idea is that if a reaction could happen, it should. If a gene is on but it has no gene product around, it should be expressed; or if a repressor is floating about with a compatible promoter still active, the promoter should be turned repressed. Or alternatively, if all copies of a gene are turned off, then none of their gene product should be present. This is another feature that has yet to make it into the simulator proper, but I've designed the sim's objects in a way that will make it easy to implement when I get the time. | ||
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I shadowed Jamie today. He showed me how to set up sequencing. HE was sending his B-R-LuxOU-B for colonies 1 and 7 to sequencing with BBK-CP-F primers. He pipetted a 10 microL of C1 and C7 in separate tubes and put the primers in a separate tube. We put primers in separately because if we had added it to the colonies, they wouldn't be able to take it out and redo it if something goes wrong. | I shadowed Jamie today. He showed me how to set up sequencing. HE was sending his B-R-LuxOU-B for colonies 1 and 7 to sequencing with BBK-CP-F primers. He pipetted a 10 microL of C1 and C7 in separate tubes and put the primers in a separate tube. We put primers in separately because if we had added it to the colonies, they wouldn't be able to take it out and redo it if something goes wrong. | ||
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