Brown: Team Resistance/23 June 2008

23 June 2008
Update Meeting with Professor Wessel, Adrian, Diana, Team Limiter
 * To create apparatus, consider talking to Ed Mullen in Biomed Machine Shop
 * Contact Jill Kreiler in Microbiology (Imaging Faciltiy)
 * Better to use copper wire rather than steel because it has a more constant resistance

Test if the ions are what is causing change in resistance! (means of linking our novel results to something that is already proven)
 * Voltage sensitive dyes?
 * Refractometry?

Meeting with Professor Jerry Daniels Lent us: LABVIEW PASSWORD: M21X38773 Suggestions: In terms of what causes our resistance change Apparatus:
 * Breadboard (2)
 * Labview CD-rom
 * PCI-6024E
 * Connection board
 * Connection cable
 * Be aware that every solder connection that we make and temperature will affect our readings
 * Use an AC current (high voltage sinusoidal current)
 * Mix solution during lysis
 * Volume change before and after lysis?
 * Fewer large particles in way of electrodes (whole cells) after the cells burst so there is less resistance→ would help us
 * 22 gauge solid core hook-up wire in bread board
 * gold/silver chloride electrodes (can get from Grass Telefactor)