Team:UCLA/Notebook/Honeybee Silk/17 May 2015

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May 17, 2015

Growing Cultures

  • Prepped 2 tubes of LB(5mL) with chloremphenicol and picked colonies of Bba-xxxx[1] to generate a starter culture for protein expression. Also prepped 2 tubes of of LB(5mL) with kanamycin and picked colonies of PET24a in order to miniprep and generate more plasmid.
  • We are growing the starter culture for the silk protein up to an OD of 0.8.
    • For the starter culture, because we started the incubation at 3pm, and we dont want to overgrow, we will put the cells in the 30 C shaker until tomorrow morning, at which point we will transfer to the 37 degree shaker.
    • The starter culture was placed in the 37 C incubator for one hour, and then transferred to the 30 C incubator at 4 PM