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We used 2 samples of original Colony 6 and 2 samples of plate cultures.  
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| '''Plasmid''' || '''260/280'''    || '''260/230''' || '''Concentration [ng/μL]'''
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| ''Lux OD47A -plate  || 1.88 || 2.25 || 92.7
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| ''Lux OD47A -plate|| 1.84 ||  1.84 ||84.8
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| ''Lux OD47A - liquid culture|| 1.91|| 2.20|| 69.6
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| ''Lux OD47A - liquid culture|| 1.98|| 2.37|| 56.6
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Revision as of 07:48, 21 August 2009

University of Calgary

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY



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JULY 10, 2009


CAROL

Descriptive Title of What You’re Doing

WIKI CODING HERE

CHINMOYEE

Looked at Markov Models ( Part of Optimization)

WIKI CODING HERE


EMILY

Colony PCR for Verification of J13002-LuxOD47E-B0015 Construction

  • Performed a colony PCR of J13002-LuxOD47E-B0015 to see if the B0015 terminator was seuccessfully cloned in, using BBK-CP forward and reverse primers and p Taq. Cycling conditions were the same as used for the last Colony PCR (see July 9th 2009 for details). PCR products were visualized on a 1% agarose gel and run with Generuler 1 kb+ DNA ladder along with J13002-LuxOD47E and LuxOD47E as size controls. See photo of gel below.
  • Analysis: Lanes 1-4 are J13002-LuxOD47E-B0015 trial 1 (treating B0015 as the Insert). Lanes 5-8 are trial 2 (treating J13002-LuxOD47E as the Insert). Lane 9 is J13002-LuxOD47E (a size control), Lane 10 is LuxOD47E BBK (another size control) and Lane 11 is a negative control.
  • This gel seems ot be kind of slanted, which isn't very good for size comparison. It looks like some of the first lanes of Trial 1 may have worked (contain the B0015 terminator) as they appear slighlty higher than other lanes, however we will run a new gel with the PCR product to be sure.



FAHD

Marketing for July 10th 2009

TODAY, I concentrated my energies on marketing our iGEM project. The following are the companies I had contacted:

1) Contacted Sigma Aldrich

2) Contacted Nexen

3) Contacted Neuroimage Inc.

I will make follow up phone calls next week.

I also worked on my US visa application and attended our weekly meetings with my supervisors.

IMAN

Descriptive Title of What You're Doing

WIKI CODING HERE


JAMIE

Descriptive Title of What You're Doing

WIKI CODING HERE


JEREMY

Descriptive Title of What You're Doing

WIKI CODING HERE


KATIE

Descriptive Title of What You're Doing

WIKI CODING HERE


KEVIN

Weekly meeting: Second life

Each sectional members are now put on the spot for weekly updates, so we get more in-depth look at each accomplishments.

MANDY

Descriptive Title of What You're Doing

WIKI CODING HERE


PATRICK

Descriptive Title of What You're Doing

WIKI CODING HERE


PRIMA

Mini-prep Lux OD47A from original plates and liquid cultures

Purpose: purify upto 20 (microg) of high-copy plasmid DNA from 1.5ml overnight cultures of E.coli in LB medium.

Procedures: followed the Qiagen mini-prep procedures.

I shadowed Vicky today. Colonies 1 & 2 - Lux OD47A BBK from original plates Colonies 3 & 4 - Lux OD47A BBK from liquid cultures

We used 2 samples of original Colony 6 and 2 samples of plate cultures. The following chart is showing the Nano-drop results (concentration of DNA) obtained after isolating the plasmids.



Plasmid 260/280 260/230 Concentration [ng/μL]
Lux OD47A -plate 1.88 2.25 92.7
Lux OD47A -plate 1.84 1.84 84.8
Lux OD47A - liquid culture 1.91 2.20 69.6
Lux OD47A - liquid culture 1.98 2.37 56.6


STEFAN

Robots!

Yesterday, time was spent on building a robot (Biobert) that will act as a guide to our lab and also the rest of the island. It had to be built from scratch because the first one wasn't very good and creeped people out because it transformed from a pipette and had an empty soulless expression. Once it was built, Mandy added the script so it could talk to people (including several secret phrases!). I designed it to move its arms and mouth when touched and optimized to use the least prims possible in order to make sure we have enough left for other things on the island. Today, a second robot was also made in the same fashion (Synthia) because Biobert was lonely and she needed a friend.


VICKI

Plasmid isolation

…was also done exactly as I described in my July 8 update. One of my tubes struggled through the lyse stage but the rest seemed to work better. The plasmid yield was not as lucrative as last time – around 70 ng/uL (100 uL sample), but it’s an improvement on the 7 ng/uL present the first time I conducted this procedure with these cells.