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From 2012.igem.org

Labjournal

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Week 1 (04/30 - 05/06/12)

• Start of our WET LAB time.
• Generating new competent E.coli KRX cells.
• Cultiviation of Xanthomonas campestris B100 and E. coli BL21(DE3). The bacterial strains we got from a working group at our University. After cultivation we isolated the genomic DNA. The DNA was needed as template for PCRs to purify the wanted laccase ORFs.
• Sending requests to working groups for different plasmids , which have already worked with laccases and described them in their papers. Unfortunately just one answer came back (thanks a lot to them).So we got a vector with the laccase-ORF CotA from Bacillus pumilus ATCC7061 from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Biomaterials in Switzerland.

weekly seminar:

• Do we want to order strains of Trametes versicolor and Trametes villosa?
• Gathering information about signal sequences in yeast
• Decision to create a database, so that we can easily number and inscribe our lab results
• Decision to arrange a summer school for pupils in their last year before the final exams
• Discussion about how to meet a member of the german Bundestag (the german parliament)