Team:Cambridge/Diary/Week 9

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Tested the Ratiometrica cultures for YFP fluorescence and none visible yet... However, we remain optimistic and our current theory is that the YFP we are using produces a very poor signal. Also, there may have been some CFP fluorescence (Although this is hard to tell as there is some autofluorescence of the cells under this excitation) meaning we might have put our proteins int he wrong way around (which doesn't matter too much thankfully). In order to know for sure whats going on we restreaked one of our colonies to grow up over night in preparation for a restriction digest and IPTG induction test.
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Meanwhile Andreas and Stuart started deciphering Jolyon and Oli's information for turning the riboswitches into BioBricks. Andreas also continued work on the Arduino software. Paul and Andreas also started construction of the cuvette holders for the hardware part of the instrumentation.
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===Tuesday===

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Monday

Tested the Ratiometrica cultures for YFP fluorescence and none visible yet... However, we remain optimistic and our current theory is that the YFP we are using produces a very poor signal. Also, there may have been some CFP fluorescence (Although this is hard to tell as there is some autofluorescence of the cells under this excitation) meaning we might have put our proteins int he wrong way around (which doesn't matter too much thankfully). In order to know for sure whats going on we restreaked one of our colonies to grow up over night in preparation for a restriction digest and IPTG induction test.

Meanwhile Andreas and Stuart started deciphering Jolyon and Oli's information for turning the riboswitches into BioBricks. Andreas also continued work on the Arduino software. Paul and Andreas also started construction of the cuvette holders for the hardware part of the instrumentation.

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday