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* Made an 1% agarose gel in a BIORAD box(ladder test, by CMR) and an Owl box(ethidium bromide+nah operon PCR product from last night, by DPW)(9:50)
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* Set up gel for electrophoresis (9:50am, DPW + CMR)
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** 1% gel in BIO-RAD Mini-Sub Cell system for continuation of ladder test using SYBR Green(CMR)
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*** Running NEB 100 bp ladder, NEB 2-log ladder, Promega 1 kb ladder
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** 1% gel in Owl box using ethidium bromide (DPW)
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*** Running nah operon PCR product from previous night

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June

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June 29th, Friday

  • Vent PCR at 11:00 (DPW)
    • Amplifying both previous Phusion PCR band and original p21 template
    • Dylan's magic triple anneal method (55/60/63)
  • Gel purified PCR product from Phusion template (~1:20 pm) (DPW)
    • Quantified product at 22.4 ng/uL
    • Set up digestion of p21 PCR product with EcoRI-HF and AscI (~9:00 pm).
      • 22 ng/uL --> 45.5 uL sample for 1 ug digest
      • Buffer 4
    • Ran digestion on gel. (~11:00 pm)
    • Sliced out relevant band on gel, stored overnight at -20.


  • Miniprepped overnight cultures of PL14-PL20 (~1:00 pm, STC)
    • Using C1015 rotor, 6666 x g, the Corning culture tubes only fit in the centrifuge with the lids off


  • Made LB, 3x 60 mL in 100 mL bottles (~ 3:00pm, SS)
  • Made LB Agar, 4 x 250 mL LB Agar in 500 mL bottles (~3:00, CS)
  • Autoclaved LB, LB Agar, and milliQ (~3:30 pm, SS)
  • Made LB plates with Kan (~6:30 pm, CMR)


  • CUGEM movie outing at 8:00 pm.


  • Phusion PCR at 10:00 pm (DPW)
    • Dylan's magic triple anneal method (57/65/70, 35 cycles total)
    • Amplifying nah operon from Gibson 1
    • Appending BioBrick cutsites for ligation into pSB3C5


June 30th, Saturday

  • Took PCR out of thermal cycler at 9:00 am (DPW)
    • Set up gel using NEB 100bp and 2-log ladders (10:00am)
    • Gel extracted PCR product, quantified at ~10ng/uL
    • Set up new Phusion PCR using Gibson 1 as template
      • Dylan's magic three-anneal method (57.6/65/72)
      • Extension time of 3 min.


  • Continued gel extraction of p21 PCR digest from previous day (SS)
  • Set up ligation of p21 PCR digest extraction and dephosphorylated pBBRBB+mtrB (11:11am, SS)
    • Desalted ligation using Millipore membrane paper
    • Transformed 2 electrocompetent DH5alpha stocks at 5:30 pm and 5:50 pm, respectively.
    • Observed time constants for electroporation of 4.38 ms and 4.24 ms, respectively
    • Let cells recover for 1 hour, plated on LB + Kan.


  • Set up two ligations of pSB3C5 into PNNL electrocompetent Shewanella strain JG700 (6:30 pm, Sp.C and St.C)
    • First transformation performed at usual PNNL voltage of 0.75 kV (time constant of 9.30 ms)
    • Second transformation performed at Myers and Myers specification of 0.55 kV (time constant of 9.34 ms).


July 1st, Sunday

  • Set up gel for electrophoresis (9:50am, DPW + CMR)
    • 1% gel in BIO-RAD Mini-Sub Cell system for continuation of ladder test using SYBR Green(CMR)
      • Running NEB 100 bp ladder, NEB 2-log ladder, Promega 1 kb ladder
    • 1% gel in Owl box using ethidium bromide (DPW)
      • Running nah operon PCR product from previous night