Imperial College London/Notebook/2 October 2009

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Latest revision as of 11:58, 12 October 2009

Contents

Testing team update

Harvard-GFP

  • There is a difference in fluorescence between 28°C and 37°C after compensating for OD.
  • Need to adjust the gain so that fluorescence doesn't saturate
  • 23rd September
  • 30th September

OD calibration

  • Preliminary results show that cell number varies with OD. However, the right dilution and enough replicates to overcome the huge variation are required.
  • 17th of September (up)
  • 23rd of September (awaiting results)
  • 25th of September
  • 2nd October (awaiting results)

Secondary carbon sources

  • There appears to be a plateau in cell number after 6 hours with 0.05% Glucose. However, more data is required to determine if this is the switch point.
  • 8th September (up)
  • 10th September (up)
  • 1st October

GFP pH

  • 18th September (awaiting data analysis)

IPTG growth

  • IPTG has no effect on cell growth under the concentrations tested (100uM to 5mM)
    • This is despit the dual effects of possible toxicity and protein production stress by IPTG on Lac-RFP constructs
  • 16th September (up)

Testing

OD calibration 4th run 2nd Oct

Protocol considerations

  • Cells were grown overnight in 10ml of M9 media
  • The cells were allowed to grow until a high OD in the late morning, then placed in cold room
  • OD of around 0.4 to 1.2 was made up, and subsequently diluted up to 10-4 to 10-6
  • 100ul of cells were inoculated into each plate
  • The OD of the overnight cells were measured again after 3 hours on ice to check if cell number changes during dilution process

Results

II09 OD calib0210graph.jpg



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Conclusions

  • After 3 hours on ice, the OD stays relatively constant
    • Shows that number of cells during OD measurement and during plating stay the same. Therefore, OD correlates with the number of cells that are plated.

Suggestions/Improvements

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