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Latest revision as of 01:54, 19 September 2015

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Our 2015 Lab Notebook!

Week of 6/1

First week in lab!
Microbiology boot camp.
How to pour plates,
PCR, miniprep, gel electrophoresis.
Researched project ideas.



Week of 6/8

Settle on bacterial adhesion.
Further background research.
Plasmid design, primer design.
Chose fusion peptides.
Ordered gBlocks from IDT of Rhamnose, Lac, and Arabinose promoters.



Week of 6/15

PCR backbones and fim proteins.
Poured Chloramphenicol and Ampicillin plates.
Gibson assembly of operon plasmid and fimH plasmid.
Pili purification assay development.
NEGEM Meetup #1.



Week of 6/22

Redo failed PCRs.
Redo failed Gibsons.
Transform and plate operon Gibson.
Pili purification and agglutination assay development.
Microscopy on control strains.



Week of 6/29

Miniprep operon plasmid.
Sent for sequencing.
Unsuccessful- redo operon PCRs.



Week of 7/6

Induction.
Operon Gibson.
Agglutination assay development.



Week of 7/13

Induction.
Edit out illegal PstI cut site from fimH.
Mutagenesis to add binding peptides.



Week of 7/20

Induction.
Transform measurement study parts.
Mutagenesis to add binding peptides.



Week of 7/27

Induction.
Nickel binding assay.
Made biobricks for pRha-fimH and fimH. PCR-ing out from parts we were using with low-copy backbone, Gibson with pSB1C3.



Week of 8/2

Induction. Induction. More Induction.
Nickel binding assay.
Stainless steel binding assay.
Cancer binding assay.
Made biobricks, sent for sequencing.





Week 8/9

Induction. Induction. More Induction. Nickel binding assay. Stainless steel binding assay. Cancer binding assay. Retried failed biobricks.



Week of 8/16

Break from lab.



Week of 8/23

Break from lab.



Week of 8/30

Wiki and presentation planning.



Week of 9/6

Retried failed biobricks. Obtained results for Rhamnose-GFP inductions. Made presentation. NEGEM Meetup #2!



Week of 9/13

Worked on parts pages. Worked on wiki.



9/24 - 9/28

iGEM Giant Jamboree!!!