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Team:UC Chile/Cyano/Notepad
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In this page we shall write what is being done and what remains to be done. <- (yeah, right)
Ok, let's start by saying that the other guy (the one in charge of bactomithril section) is the serious one. I see myself more like a sort of crazy engineer type of person (thereby my code name is crazyengineer42). While reading the following pages you'll probably stumble on things that don't make much sense and many references to star wars, x files, lost and García Márquez. Oh, and dragons, there's gonna be lots of dragons. But don't despair, some ideas are intelligible if you make the effort to think as I think. If it's impossible for you to do so, well, at least I hope you have some fun (otherwise it may be better for you to stick with bactomithril section and never come back here!).
I make up for my lack of artistic style with entertaining writing, funny pics and unnecessary smilies.
Week 1
Week 2
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 1
Check out our constructs!!!
Week 2
Hey, it's just me at SJ library.
Monday: weekly meeting. We came up with three solutions for the sustentability problem. The formal proposal must be ready next Tuesday afternoon. Also, we designed primers for the integration biobrick experiment.
Tuesday: we prepared synechocystis culture media and lots of other pretty things :) I ate ice cream and pizza for example (seriously, need some help here!).
Wednesday: I am supposed to be studying proba instead of doing this. Can't concentrate though, too boring for me still.
Week 6
Sat 04.14
Horrible day. Nothing worked.
The one good thing:
FLYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Week 7
Tuesday 04.17
We purified parts for Construct 1 and then assembled them by Gibson. Hope everythings works out. Simon was wearing his Gibson Les Paul T-shirt so we kinda hope that the power of rock leads us through the good side of the force.
Also, have you ever seen a centrifuge dance? It's pretty funny actually.In one step of the purification, the protocol stated "centrifuge with lid open"
So we did...and it danced...
Pic of the day
Thursday 04.19
Construct 1 is ready!!!
Conclusion: absolutely nothing is more powerful than rock!
Friday 04.20
Seven a.m., waking up in the morning. Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs...
hahaha i'm just messing with your head
Sat 04.21
Started preparing parts for Construct 2 by PCR.
Here is Simon heroically diminishing his life span for the success of Construct2.
Although he actually seems to be enjoying it...
To do:
Assemble C2.1 and C2.2. Characterization of psAB and psbA2 promoters.
Week 8
Tuesday 04.24
Did a restriction digest of construct 1 to check if it is really what we wanted to assemble. We believe it's not. We are strongly considering to start work from scratch. (Order primers again and so on).
Simon confessed that he didn't like classic rock, Bernardo tried to fix his headphones with a soldering gun and Carla quit Proba.
Getting ready for Ingenia fair at engineering faculty tomorrow!!!
Wednesday 04.25
Spent the morning talking about our project at engineering faculty. At least 30 people are interested in participating next year. For details check out our human practices section.
Today is Carla's birthday. In the spirit of celebration, we ordered pizza-cake and she could blow out her candles. Happy 20 years!
Finally, run 42 PCR's to check if the parts assembled by gibson were correct. We included the digested contructs. Waiting for tomorrow's results.
Thursday 04.26
Weird things are happening. The desired parts have wrong weights so clearly they are not what we want. The constructs don't have all the parts. Some have two or three and none is complete.
Second day at Ingenia fair.
Had a few gourmet drinks to cheer up the team!
Friday 04.27
Did one last PCR run with parts that correctly assembled. We are going to build our desired construct from the good parts of the former ones. Frankenson is on! (Frankenstein Gibson).
First rainny day of the season! Brace yourselves, winter is coming.
Saturday 04.28
Checked the PCR results and they are not what we expected. Parts that supposedly were together are not in the right weight. Still, we did the corresponding Frankenson.
Week 9
Monday 04.30
Did a massive PCR run. We amplified every part of Construct 1 using as template old PCR purifications and PCR products. We'll build C1 from scratch. Hoping everything works out well this time.
As an inspirational motif:
Muchos años después, al frente del pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella remota tarde en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.
Tuesday 05.01
We decided to transform e. coli with the expression plasmid pPMQAK1. Also, as the mentioned plasmid contains ccdb toxin, we took it out by a digestion/ligation procedure and transformed again. Transformed e. coli with GFP coding device.
During the afternoon, we checked yesterday's PCR's under UV light. Luckily, all parts amplified except for KanR u.u Did a PCR run for KanR alone. We tried with different master mix combinations, some containing GC buffer and some with DMSO.
Existential Question: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE A GREMLIN PLAGUE IN THE LABORATORY??
Got it!! The next protocol can be used,
Protocol to get rid of gremlins: http://christalawler.com/2010/06/05/bits-how-to-kill-a-gremlin-as-seen-in-gremlins/
- The previous protocol needs to be adapted to laboratory conditions!!!
Wednesday 05.02
Checked PCR runs. KanR didn't have the strenght we'd have liked, but still we used it. All parts were assembled by Gibson. Also, every part has its neg. control. After Gibson, we transformed coli in kan, chlor and both resistance plates.
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