Team:WashU/Week7

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We went to the YLC for our initial visit today. After giving our talk, we ran the experiment and brought the plates back to incubate them until Wednesday, when we will return to conclude our experience with the YLC students.
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After two days now, we returned to the YLC with the students' plates to show them their results and conclude with a  talk on our project. Pictures of the children's plates can be seen on our [PUT A LINK TO MEDIA PAGE HERE].  
After two days now, we returned to the YLC with the students' plates to show them their results and conclude with a  talk on our project. Pictures of the children's plates can be seen on our [PUT A LINK TO MEDIA PAGE HERE].  
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==Ligation from Tuesday==
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We examined the transformed plates, picked a colony from our one successful plate, and grew it up in LB. At the end of the day, we miniprepped the result and nanodropped it. Tomorrow, we will run a gel on it and digest it to see if the colony had the correct ligation.
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Digest CS42S and PSL2131 and the ligation from Tuesday that we grew up <br>
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The digestion of the miniprep from Wednesday, when run on a gel, revealed that the colony was not the ligation that we wanted. [GEL PICTURE]
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Thus, we digested our construct CS42S and plasmid PSL2131 anew, gel purified the two, and performed a second ligation.<br>
Gel purified the above <br>
Gel purified the above <br>
Ligate the gel purification results <br>
Ligate the gel purification results <br>

Revision as of 16:47, 12 July 2012



Monday, July 9

Saffron in a Kan

Today, we maxi-prepped our construct CS42S, digested both CS42S and our plasmid PSL2131, and ran them both on gels. We made one-well gels in order to allow us to gel purify the constructs and recover DNA. construct%2520extraction.jpg

Then we gel purified the construct and plasmid and nanodropped them. [TABLE OF NANODROP RESULTS]

YLC

We went to the YLC for our initial visit today. After giving our talk, we ran the experiment and brought the plates back to incubate them until Wednesday, when we will return to conclude our experience with the YLC students.

Tuesday, July 10
We learned that the biobrick protocol for ligation was not optimal for our conditions. Thus, using a different protocol [FOUND HERE PUT IN LINK], we performed a ligation of our construct CS42S and plasmid PSL2131. Then, we transformed some E. coli with the results of our ligation and put the plates in the incubator. In addition, as an extra check, we ran a gel of our ligation results to see if the procedure had worked. The gel reveals that we have several different ligations going on, including the ligation that we expect to see, at around 9 kb.

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-LABEL THE GEL PICTURE WITH PROPER LABELS

We finally proceeded to transform <E. coli> with our ligations and put the plates in the incubator to check the next day.

Wednesday, July 11

YLC

After two days now, we returned to the YLC with the students' plates to show them their results and conclude with a talk on our project. Pictures of the children's plates can be seen on our [PUT A LINK TO MEDIA PAGE HERE].

Ligation from Tuesday

We examined the transformed plates, picked a colony from our one successful plate, and grew it up in LB. At the end of the day, we miniprepped the result and nanodropped it. Tomorrow, we will run a gel on it and digest it to see if the colony had the correct ligation.


Thursday, July 12

Ligation (cont.)

The digestion of the miniprep from Wednesday, when run on a gel, revealed that the colony was not the ligation that we wanted. [GEL PICTURE] Thus, we digested our construct CS42S and plasmid PSL2131 anew, gel purified the two, and performed a second ligation.
Gel purified the above
Ligate the gel purification results
Miniprep new parts + glycerol stock of new parts
Started a maxiprep culture of zeaxanthin E. coli construct



Friday, July 13

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