Team:British Columbia/Protocols/Beetle

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iGEM Tips for Success
Things to think about when designing your project and experiments, as well as general safety rules.

Site Directed Mutagenesis
A molecular biology technique in which a mutation is created at a defined site in a DNA molecule.

Bacterial Standard Operating Protocols
How to prepare competent cells, transform your construct into competent cells, and express your protein from a lac promoter.

Yeast Standard Operating Protocols
How to transform your construct into yeast, obtain crude extract for SDS-PAGE, and perform GFP fixation for microscopy and fluorescence-activated cell sorting.

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
A method that combines the features of gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify different substances within a test sample.

Beetle Transfer Experiments
Preliminary experiments to probe the efficiency of transferring yeast via beetle vector.

Yeast-Fungi Co-culture Experiments
Preliminary experiments to investigate the competitive interactions between yeast and the Bluestain Fungus.


Beetle Transfer Experiment

In this experiment, we wanted to find out whether the beetles could carry yeast. To do this, we followed the following procedure.

1)Obtain beetles 2)Place beetles on plates with appropriate yeast (GFP, Clonat resistance, wildtype, sporulating, nonsporulating)