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!align="center"|[[Team:WashU|Home]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:WashU/Team|Team]]
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!align="center"|[https://igem.org/Team.cgi?year=2010&team_name=WashU Official Team Profile]
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!align="center"|[[Team:WashU/Project|Project]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:WashU/Parts|Parts Submitted to the Registry]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:WashU/Modeling|Modeling]]
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!align="center"|[[Team:WashU/Notebook|Notebook]]
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==Notebook==
==Notebook==
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You should make use of the calendar feature on the wiki and start a lab notebook.  This may be looked at by the judges to see how your work progressed throughout the summer.  It is a very useful organizational tool as well.
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[[File:Lab Notebook.jpg|300px|thumb|right|]]
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===May 31===
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*Preliminary Shopping List
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##PCR buffer w/o MgCl  - 5ML - $45.00
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##M8787- 5ML -MgCl Reagent- $49.30
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##D7295-.5ML - dNTP - $73.00
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##D4184-250UN - Taq Polymerase - $150.00
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##D8045-250UN - AccuTaq - $300
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##E1385-5ML – Ethidium Bromide – $23.70
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##T8280-1L – Tris Acetate EDTA Buffer – $45.10
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##NA1020-1KT – PCR Clean-Up Kit -$102.50
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##NA1111-1KT -  Gel Extraction Kit - $102.00
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Subtotal: $890.60
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*Met with Cohen Lab grad students to finalize plan and get cassettes.
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*Received Leu2 cassette in pRS305 plasmid.
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*Received Ura3 cassette in pRS306 plasmid.
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===June 1===
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*Lesson from Bert Berla on how to design primers
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*Codon Optimized the four genes using tool at: http://www.encorbio.com/protocols/Codon.htm
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**Double checked gene and restriction sites to make sure enzyme does not cut in the middle of the gene
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*Design Primers for cassettes
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**Ura3, Leu2, KanMX4, and NatMX4
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===June 2===
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*Made two liters of LB solution
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**25g of LB Broth per Liter (10g Tryptone, 5g Yeast Extract, and 10g NaCl)
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**Autoclaved solutions: 30 minute sterilization.
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**Refrigerated after cooling.
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===June 3===
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*Made YPD
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##      In 800ml water in 1 L bottle dissolve 10g of BactoYeast extract
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##    Dissolve 20g of BactoPeptone in the above solution
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##      In 200ml water in 500ml bottle dissolve 20g Dextrose
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##      Autoclave both, combine after autoclaving. (30 minute sterilization)
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*Made 1000X Ampicillin Stock
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**Added 2g Ampicillin to 20ml water.
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**Added NaOH until dissolved.
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**Sterile filtered.
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**Frozen in -20C Freezer
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*Made cultures of E. coli strains with KanMx4 and Natmx4 inserts.
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[[Team:WashU/Notebook/May2011|Lab Notebook-May]]
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**In culture tubes, added 5ml LB and 5ul 1000X Ampicillin Stock.
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**Transferred one colony per strain from plates to culture tubes.
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**Incubate at 30 degrees Celsius shaking at 225rpm overnight.
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*Made cultures of Yeast strains BC177 and BC178
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[[Team:WashU/Notebook/June2011|Lab Notebook-June]]
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**Added 5ml YPD to two culture tubes.
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**Transferred one colony per strain from plates to culture tubes.
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**Incubate at 30 degrees Celsius shaking at 225rpm overnight.
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[[Team:WashU/Notebook/July2011|Lab Notebook-July]]
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*Making freezer stocks of yeast culture
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**Add 1.25mL glycerol to yeast culture
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**Freeze yeast culture in -80 degree freezer
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*Make E.coli mini-preps
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[[Team:WashU/Notebook/August2011|Lab Notebook-August]]
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**Transfer to E.coli culture tubes
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**Centrifuge for one minute at 12000g
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**Pour out supernatant
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**add 100uL of resuspension solution with RNase
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**add 200uL of lysis buffer
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**add 350uL of neutralization buffer
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**Centrifuge for 10 minutes at 12000g
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**Insert a Miniprep Binding Column into the microcentrifuge tube and add 500uL of Column Preparation Solution to each miniprep column.
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**Centrifuge at 12000xg for 1 minute. Discard the flow-through
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**Take the flow-through resulting from the 10 minute centrifuge and pipet it into the binding column
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**Centrifuge at 12000xgfor 1 minute. Discard the flow-through
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**Add 500uL of Wash Solution 1 to the column and centrifuge at 12000xg for one minute. Discard the flow-through.
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**Repeat the previous step
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**Add 750uL of diluted Wash Solution 2 to the column and centrifuge at 12000xg for one minute. Discard the flow-through.
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**Centrifuge at 12000xg for one minute.
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**Transfer the column to a fresh collection tube and add 100uL of Elution Solution to the column
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**Store the eluate at -20 degrees C
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*Repeat the protcol for making E.coli cultures of KanMX4 and NatMX4
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[[Team:WashU/Notebook/September2011|Lab Notebook-September]]

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