Team:Cornell/Week 6

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July 10th - July 16th

Sunday, July 10

Lab work done by: James Mathew, Charlie Chung

Worked on website

- Preliminary design of banner, safety content, and temporary lab notebook spreadsheet

Ligation product was transformed in electrocompetent cells
Culture plated on agar plate treated with ampicillin
Plasmid containing the Vio operon was transformed and plated on agar treated with kanamycin
Overnight PCR reaction for RFP

Monday, July 11

Tuesday, July 12

Finished final design of team logo

Wednesday, July 13

"Website Team" meeting to continue design and construction of website

- Designed and constructed final banner design

Thursday, July 14

Lab work done by: James Mathew, Charlie Chung

Sequencing revealed no GFP in the ligation product
Will retry the 3-piece ligation of GFP + Annealed Primer Pair A (half of biotin tag) + Annealed Primer Pair B (other half of biotin tag & iGEM suffix)
PCR to amplify vector backbone containing RFP
Met Prof. Lucks -- prospective iGEM advisor and coolest man alive

Friday, July 15

Banner was updated to include Flash animation of moving gears.

Team Meeting

Ligation didn't work -- retry over the weekend
- transform and plate today
- inoculate and colony PCR on Saturday
- Miniprep and prepare for sequencing on Sunday
Prepare more culture of backbone plasmid
- inoculate today
- Miniprep on Saturday
Order primers today for other methods of ligation: (1) longer primers (2) two-step PCR with shorter primers
Order primers for our pathway enzymes: VioA, VioB, VioB
- Primers should come Wednesday
- If ligation this weekend fails, we can try these other PCR methods
Animations and website construction are continuing

Lab work done by: James Mathew, Charlie Chung, Youjin Cho

Running low on pZE vector backbone, so fired up two cultures
Miniprep to purify out the plasmid. Followed standard Qiagen Miniprep protocol for microcentrifuge
Verify if PCR amplification of RFP worked using gel electrophoresis. If yes, then proceed to gel extraction and purification

- NOTE: Thermocycler did not keep our rxn tube at 4°C

Electroporation method of transforming our 3-piece ligation product and control into DH5α (competent E. coli = made porous for uptake of outside DNA)
Plated transformed bacteria onto agar plates treated with ampicillin

Saturday, July 16

Lab work done by: Youjin Cho, Nicholas Kramer

Growth of numerous colonies suggests the ligation reaction worked

- Will pick 2 colonies off the plate in the evening and inoculate overnight

PCR to amplify vector backbone containing RFP

- Melting temperature of 57°C leads to non-specific binding

- Ran 2 PCR reactions with melting temperatures 59°C and 61°C

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-==Sunday==
+==Sunday, July 10==
+Lab work done by: James Mathew, Charlie Chung
+:*Worked on website
+::- Preliminary design of banner, safety content, and temporary lab notebook spreadsheet
+:*Ligation product was transformed in electrocompetent cells
+:*Culture plated on agar plate treated with ampicillin
+:*Plasmid containing the Vio operon was transformed and plated on agar treated with kanamycin
+:*Overnight PCR reaction for RFP
-==Monday==
+==Monday, July 11==
-==Tuesday==
+==Tuesday, July 12==
+:*Finished final design of team logo
-==Wednesday==
+==Wednesday, July 13==
+:*"Website Team" meeting to continue design and construction of website
+::- Designed and constructed final banner design
-==Thursday==
+==Thursday, July 14==
+Lab work done by: James Mathew, Charlie Chung
+:*Sequencing revealed no GFP in the ligation product
+:*Will retry the 3-piece ligation of GFP + Annealed Primer Pair A (half of biotin tag) + Annealed Primer Pair B (other half of biotin tag & iGEM suffix)
+:*PCR to amplify vector backbone containing RFP
+:*Met Prof. Lucks -- prospective iGEM advisor and coolest man alive
-==Friday==
+==Friday, July 15==
+:*Banner was updated to include Flash animation of moving gears.
+'''Team Meeting'''
+#Ligation didn't work -- retry over the weekend
+#::- transform and plate today
+#::- inoculate and colony PCR on Saturday
+#::- Miniprep and prepare for sequencing on Sunday
+#Prepare more culture of backbone plasmid
+#::- inoculate today
+#::- Miniprep on Saturday
+#Order primers today for other methods of ligation: (1) longer primers (2) two-step PCR with shorter primers
+#Order primers for our pathway enzymes: VioA, VioB, VioB
+#:- Primers should come Wednesday
+#:- If ligation this weekend fails, we can try these other PCR methods
+#Animations and website construction are continuing
+Lab work done by: James Mathew, Charlie Chung, Youjin Cho
+:*Running low on pZE vector backbone, so fired up two cultures
+:*Miniprep to purify out the plasmid. Followed standard Qiagen Miniprep protocol for microcentrifuge
+:*Verify if PCR amplification of RFP worked using gel electrophoresis. If yes, then proceed to gel extraction and purification
+::- ''NOTE: Thermocycler did not keep our rxn tube at 4°C''
+:*Electroporation method of transforming our 3-piece ligation product and control into DH5α (competent E. coli = made porous for uptake of outside DNA)
+:*Plated transformed bacteria onto agar plates treated with ampicillin
-==Saturday==
+==Saturday, July 16==
+Lab work done by: Youjin Cho, Nicholas Kramer
-__NOTOC__
+:*Growth of numerous colonies suggests the ligation reaction worked
+::- Will pick 2 colonies off the plate in the evening and inoculate overnight
+:*PCR to amplify vector backbone containing RFP
+::- Melting temperature of 57°C leads to non-specific binding
+::- Ran 2 PCR reactions with melting temperatures 59°C and 61°C