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Team:Hawaii/Notebook/2008-07-29
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Things we did today
Wetlab work
Gel purification of ccdB PCR product
- Grace
RE digests
- Grace
- Digested pRL1383a (from last night) with BamHI
- Digested B0030 and B0024 (from last night) with EcoRI
- Sequentially digested gel purified ccdB with HindIII and BamHI
Construction of BioBricks
- Grace
- Purified RE digests on EtBr stained 1.2% agarose gel
- Extracted bands for B0030 and B0024
- Other lanes FAILED!
- SYBR Safe doesn't show up well, even under UV (arg...)
Direct Band Extraction Method
- Norman
- make two comb gels
- run test UPA band along with ladder
- attempt to pipette out DNA as it runs into the second well
- no more gel cutting???
PCR amplification of pRL1383a parts
- Margaret
- Made a reaction buffer containing {38.5ul, 20ul accusure, 10ul dNTPs, & 5ul 5XBuffer}. This should be good for 20 50ul reactions.
- Amplified with Accusure: aadA (BBa_J23012), aadaA (pRL1383a), rep region, oriV
- Amplified with Green Taq: rep region
- On 7-30 I ran a gel.
Media
- Margaret
- started to make LB amp100 plates, but autoclave room is closed. Remember to do it tomorrow.
Plasmid prep
- Krystle
- Innoculated LB+amp with pRL1383a harboring E. coli (from cryostock)
PCR
- Krystle
- PCR reactions to isolate GFP, GFPf, nir from plasmid
Discussion
SYBR Safe
- Blue light still doesn't illuminate the bands well. No bands (not even the ladder) are visible. Resolution *much* better with short wave UV. EtBr better bet for now?
Restriction enzymes
- HindIII and BamHI in the lab -20C freezer (in box labeled "TKW Restriction Enzymes") fail. They're really old and don't appear to cut well anymore. Digestion of pRL1383a resulted in a long smear.
Quote of the Day
LOL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0s0Y3-BCaw
