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Team:EPF-Lausanne/Todo
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Todo
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General
- Prepare antibiotic aliquotes
- Edit the Google doc inventory, SPECIFY THE NAMES you put on the tubes if they are not straightforward!
Preparing the parts
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Sequence the lysis cassette -
Double-check lysis cassette sequence
All the parts are verified, we can now assemble them!
Assembly
Plasmids
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Research plasmid backbones. Is there one that already contains Tet-repressed LacI or GFP? -
Design Gibson primers to assemble the three different plasmids. -
Receive said primers - Determine which sequence on LacI-plasmid and Lysis-plasmid should be used to create the "mega-plasmid".
- Think of new assemblies we want to make (pTet with RFP, for example)
- J61002 plasmid:
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adding pTet: OK -
adding tetR with const promoter: troubles with amplifying the parts => left aside for the moment - adding LacI under Ptet + RFP under Plac: only one colony, but has a strange plasmid size
- adding LacI under Ptet + lysis cassette under Plac: no colonies for the moment
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J23019 plasmid: PCR failed so far => test new plasmids for the LacI plasmid pSB3C5 plasmid: glycerol stock, pconst-TetR added, transformation failed => try with pSB3K1- pSB3K1 plasmid: glycerol stock, primers ordered
Specifically:
- Run PCRs and gels on existing sequences (plasmid backbone, TetR gene, RFP) to prepare the parts
- extract the correct parts from the gel and purify (or use directly PCR products)
- Make a Gibson reaction
- Transform cells -> plates -> liquid cultures
- Miniprep the plasmids from cultures, check if Gibson is ok by doing a digestion
TetR mutants
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determine required sequences -
order primers - [Mutation-inducing extension PCR for MITOMI: ] <-- Temporarily left to the side, in favour of site-specific mutagenesis
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Possibly rerun PCR; until decent results are obtained for all 6 mutations -
Extract by gel purification
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- Site-specific mutagenesis:
- Receive primers
- Run mutagenesis
- Finish preparing media
MITOMI
For wtTetR
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repeat MITOMI with wtTetR His-tagged (linear template) and wtTetR GFP-tagged (plasmid), for consensus and negative control sequence. DNA spotted in different concentrations - experiment with de Brujin library spotted on His-wtTetR or/and wtTetR-GFP (this will yield PWM)
experiment planned on July 6
- 1-off library on wtTetR linear template
Further, check the ordered muTetRs (determine position weight matrix)
- determine position weight matrix for muTetRs, compare with de Brujin results
Microfluidics and chemostat chip
- Continue alignment training
- Repeat experiments to check design
- Grow E. Coli from spotted arrays
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[No microfluidics] Setup a plate and test tween concentrations -
Determine growth rate as function of tween concentration (say 0.075% +- 0.7, as many increments as will fit on the chip) - Adapt design of "chemostat" chip for e-coli
Wiki
Assembly
Make a page that explains the assembly strategy, and sequence of assembly: what plasmids were made in what sequence, and where all the components come from. For example, when we make J61002-LacI-Lysis, how many parts are we assembling? Where were those parts taken from in the PCR step? Use copious illustrations.
Protocols
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Describe cell cultures in miniprep protocol -
Create protocol Template, with "Back to protocols" link at top- Include an easy printing option seriously work on printing template.
- Write a new protocol!
- Upload "chemostat" protocols
General
Make sure we comply with the Requirements!
- Write-up team presentation
- Upload our initial research about transcription factors
- Fill-in attributions and contributions and decide where it should go on the wiki
- Create data page
Front Page
Eventually (i.e when the project is approaching completion), the following should be present on the front page:
- Project abstract
- Link to the Data Page
- Sponsors
- Pretty layout...
Clean room
- Order lab notebook
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Order storage box
