Team:KULeuven/14 August 2008

Wet Lab
The PCR samples of the T7 polymerase with UmuD tag were put on gel. The results were not good. It is still a smear.

Some more ligation products were cut: J23109+J23032, C0062+B0015, E0022+B0015 with XbaI and EcoRI; R0084+J23022, R0062+B0032, J23100+B0032 with SpeI and EcoRI. Only R0062+B0032 and J23100+B0032 were not properly cut. It is possible that the ligations were not correct.

The ligations that failed were set up again: C0040+B0015, K145015+B0015, C0012+B0015 and C0060+B0015.

Modeling
Nick transferred all his assets to us today. He delegated heavily and provided us with workable stuff for next week :) The wiki was also updated and remarks are all around, so a lot of work still to do.

Today, we implemented auto-activation of the Lux repressor, mimicking the original Vibrio Lux system. After a lot of messing about and a lot of long kinetic laws we finally managed it and it seems to be working correctly. It's very hard though to keep track of all the correct/changed parameters in such a large system :/

It's been said before this week, but things are looking quite good. We might have reached some sort of end point here where everything should be final. (hopefully)

Anyhow, time for a long weekend. See you on monday!

Wiki
Homepage code reformatted, and content added. Maarten made a image map of the team picture. IE fixes for tabs and picture gallery added.