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Instructor: ZHE LYU
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'''Tasks completed before 2013/02/20'''  
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'''February 2013'''
-Training on anaerobic skills, i.e. use of anaerobic glassware, gassing chamber,  
-Training on anaerobic skills, i.e. use of anaerobic glassware, gassing chamber,  
anaerobic chamber, etc.  
anaerobic chamber, etc.  
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-Transferred and grew Methanococcus transformants with the geraniol synthase
 
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gene encoded in the plasmid that was stored via glycerol stock from Summer
 
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2012. Transformants containing only the pAW42 vector (control) were also
 
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transferred and grown.
 
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-Cell samples from the cultures listed above were harvested, resuspended in
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'''March 2013'''
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buffer and stored at -20C for running SDS in near future.
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-Cell samples from cultures listed two above were harvested, flash-frozen and
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stored at -80C formRNA extraction in the near future.
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-Both liquid and solid anaerobic medium was prepared for future use. Refer to
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-Purification of GS, AT and GS+AT via revival of frozen stocks and plating of sub-cultures.
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Appendix of protocols, I Preparation of Complex Medium for Methanococci
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(McC).  
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'''2013/2/20'''
 
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-Further preparation of media tubes via inoculation of Puromycin and
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'''April 2013'''
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pressurization to 40 psi using H2/CO2 gas. Stored at -20C.
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-Preparation of samples for SDS gel.
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-Further continuation of purification of GS, AT and GS+AT via picking colonies, creating sub-cultures and plating.
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-Vector (control) samples made at 1x dilution and 5x dilution
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-Geranyl Synthase (GS) plasmid samples made at 1x and 5x dilution
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-Test of Puromycin strength.
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-An SDS gel was run using both dilutions of vector and GS samples, along with a
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-Creation of frozen stocks of purified GS, AT and GS+AT transformants.
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protein marker.
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'''2013/2/26'''
 
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-Four media tubes were treated with 0.1 mL Na2S solution each. Two of the tubes
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'''June 2013'''
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were used for inoculation of GS transformant, and the other two were used for
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inoculation of GS + AT (geraniol acetyltransferase) transformant.
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-200x dilution of Puromycin solution was created and properly dispensed.
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-SDS gel from 2013/2/20 was imaged. Gel image quality was lacking, so it was
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-Extraction of Geraniol from extra-cellular and intra-cellular content of samples and preparation for GC/MS evaluation
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decided to perform a second gel.
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'''2013/2/27'''
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-Sequencing of pAW50-mCherry vector
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-Reflecting upon first SDS gel, new sample dilutions were created in aim of  
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-Analysis of pAW50-mCherry sequence
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creating an easier to read gel. 2x dilution sample of GS was created and leftover
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5x GS sample from first gel was also used.  4x, 6x and 8x dilutions of vector
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samples were created, and leftover 5x dilution vector samples from first gel were
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also used. Lastly, a protein marker ladder was used for size reference.
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-Gel was run, stained, de-stained and imaged (see below). No evident expression
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-Transformation of pAW50-mCherry vector into Methanococcus
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of GS protein. Next verification of this will be to run an mRNA extract for
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conclusive evidence of GS gene being transcribed 
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-Testing Fluorescence of pAW50-mCherry
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-Purification of pAW50-mCherry cultures via plating of transformants, and creating sub-cultures of colonies picked
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-Creation of frozen stocks of pAW50-mCherry in Methanococcus
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'''July 2013'''
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[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[Fig 1. ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
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-Creation and analysis of the "killing & inhibiting" experiment where we test the maximum amount of product a 5ml culture of Methanococcus can tolerate in cultures with high OD (killing of grown cells) and low OD (inhibiting of growth).
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-Innovation of an adapter to allow the use of syringe needles on micropipettes.
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-Expanded upon the original extraction protocol for higher efficiency of extraction of geraniol from Methanococcus cultures.
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- GC/MS Evaluation and analysis (see results tab)
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'''August 2013'''
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'''2013/03/05'''
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-Revival and PCR of all GS and AT frozen stocks to confirm insert.
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-6 tubes of McC media created, added Na2S (0.1mL 2.5%) and Puromycin (0.5mL of  
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--Extraction of Geraniol from extra-cellular and intra-cellular content of all GS frozen stocks and preparation for GC/MS evaluation
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10x)
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-Inoculated vector strain Methanococcus into two tubes and GS + AT into other two
 
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tubes. 
 
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'''September 2013'''
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'''2013/03/06'''
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-Transformation of V4 into Methanococcus
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-Solid McC media was autoclaved so gel would melt, so we could add Na2S and
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-Testing Fluorescence of V4
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Puromycin to all solid media bottles for plating. Puromycin was added to all but two
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bottles. These two bottles will be used as control for Puromycin.
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-GS and AT cell cultures were measured for their optical density (OD). A cultures OD
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-Purification of V4 cultures via plating of transformants, and creating sub-cultures of colonies picked
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can tell us how well its growth and reproduction is. There is a direct correlation between
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OD and cells/mL, so we will use this to determine how much we must dilute to achieve
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around 150 cells/ml for optimal plating.  Appropriate dilutions were measured and
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created.  These samples were added to solid media bottles is various quantities (0.3mL,  
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0.6mL and 0.9mL), allowed to rest on the agar media for half an hour, then placed
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vertically into a 37C incubation room.
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'''2013/03/19'''
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-Creation of frozen stocks of V4 in Methanococcus
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-4 media tubes were prepared with 0.1 mL of 2.5% Na2S solution. These tubes
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-GC/MS Evaluation and analysis (see results tab)
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were then pressurized to 40 psi using H2/CO2 gas.
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-Puromycin solution was prepared: 7.5mg of 200x Puromycin was added to 30
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== '''E. coli Lab''' ==
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mL of de-ionized water and sparged in nitrogen gas. The 30 mL was then
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transferred to 6 tubes, each with 5 mL of 100x Puromycin.  
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-6 solid media plates were prepared for future AT Methanococcus. The 6 bottles
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Instructor: Rachit Jain
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were autoclaved, and treated with 0.1 mL 100x Puromycin and 0.2 mL 2.5%
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Na2S solution each. 
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-1 GS (CK or control) colony, and 1 GS colony was slected and inoculated to
 
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media containing 0.1 mL 2.5% Na2S. Note that these 2 colonies were not well
 
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separated.  The 2 cultures were added to a 37C incubator.
 
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'''2013/03/20'''  
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'''February 2013'''
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-200 mL liquid media was created, dispensed into 40 tubes, stoppered and capped,
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-Training on PCR and heat shock transformation
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pressurized to 15 psi using nitrogen and carbon dioxide, autoclaved and placed in the
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anaerobic chamber.
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-Frozen transformants of AT and GS+AT were placed into two properly treated media
 
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tubes and placed into 37C incubator.
 
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-Various appropriate dilutions of GS and AT cultures were created relative to OD
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'''March 2013'''
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readings as described in the process from 2013/03/06.
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-These dilutions were inoculated into 8 solid media bottles for plating, and stored at 37C
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-PCR of GS gene
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incubation room.
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'''2013/03/26'''
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-Cloning of GS gene into pAW-50.
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-8 media tubes were treated with 0.1 mL of 2.5% Na2S solution, 0.05 mL of 100x
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Puromycin solution and pressurized to 40 psi with H2 and CO2. Two of these tubes were
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inoculated with 0.2 mL of AT transformant , while 2 other tubes were inoculated with 0.2
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mL of AT+GS transformant.  The remaining 4 tubes were inoculated with colonies that
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formed from the GS transformant after Puromycin purification.  
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-6 solid media bottles were autoclaved, treated with 0.2 mL Na2S and treated with 0.1
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-Transformation of pAW-50 GS into species XL1-Blue. Transformed species spread onto ampicillin plates
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mL of Puromycin for future plating.
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'''2013/03/27'''
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-Re-pressurize H2/CO2 culture tubes to 40 psi
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-Place 1 mL of 60% glycerol/40% media solution into 20 three-mL serum bottles. These
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20 bottles were stoppered and capped for future frozen culture stocks.  
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-Check OD of cultures, and decided they were not sufficient enough for proper plating.
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-Verification of GS transformants via digestion and gel verification
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'''2013/03/28'''
 
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-Re-pressurize H2/CO2 cultures tubes to 40 psi.
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'''April 2013'''
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-Measure OD of cultures tubes hoping much better growth since 2013/03/27. The OD
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-Colonies for GS, AT, and GS+AT were selected from Methanococcus and corresponding genes were extracted. PCR and gel verification of GS, AT, and GS+AT genes. Results concluded successful in locating vectors from Methanococcus.
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measurements provided results satisfactory for plating.  
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-Various appropriate dilutions of AT and GS+AT cultures were created relative to OD
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-PCR and gel verification of mCherry gene
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readings as described in the process from 2013/03/06.
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-These diluted samples were inoculated into 6 solid media bottles for plating and plates
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-Cloning of mCherry gene into pAW-50 vector
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were placed into 37C incubation room.
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-3 autoclaved glycerol stock bottles made 2013/03/27 were used to create frozen culture
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-Verification of cloning via digestion and gel verification. After positive verification, ligation of digested products and heat shock transformation into XL1-Blue. XL1-Blue transformants spread onto ampicillin plates.
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stocks of biological replicates of GS. Namely, GS-1, GS-2 and GS-3 which were derived
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from 3 different GS culture tubes. These 3 GS-inoculated glycerol stock bottles were
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placed in -80C freezer.  
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'''2013/04/02'''
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-XL1-Blue colonies picked and screened. Purification of pAW-50 mCherry from colonies, and stored in -20°C freezer.
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-400 mL of liquid media was created.  
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'''2013/04/03'''
 
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-Liquid media created 2013/04/02 was dispensed into 40 tubes, stoppered and capped. All
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'''June 2013'''
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tubes were pressurized to 15 psi using nitrogen and carbon dioxide then autoclaved.
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-Agar was weighed out for 20 solid media bottles. Liquid media was then dispensed to
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-Transformation of pAW-50 mCherry into XL1-Blue and creation of stock
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these solid media bottles in addition to the agar. These bottles were stoppered, capped,
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pressurized and autoclaved like the previously mentioned 40 tubes.
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-All tubes and bottles were moved to anaerobic chamber.  
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-PCR of two mCherry sequences: one without RBS sequence (V2) and one containing RBS sequence (V4). Gel Verification of tools 1 and 2.
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-Colonies were picked from an AT and AT+GS plate. Four colonies were taken from
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-Digestion and cloning of V2 and V4 into pAW-50 mCherry vector
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each plate and inoculated into respective media tubes.
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-Samples from the GS-1 and GS-2 frozen stock cultures were added to respective media
 
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tubes to test if the previously created frozen stock cultures are actually viable.
 
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-The 10 tubes including the AT colonies, AT+GS colonies, and frozen stock samples
 
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were added to an incubator for growth.
 
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'''2013/04/09'''  
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'''July 2013'''
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-1 mL of two different GS cultures (labeled GSF-1 and GSF-2) were inoculated in a 1 mL
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-Purification of digested vector, ligation, and transformation of vector into XL1-Blue. Transformants plated onto ampicillin plates.
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media/glycerol solution and stored at -80C for future use as a frozen stock culture.  
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-6 agar bottles were autoclaved, treated with 0.1 mL of 100x Puromycin and 0.2 mL
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-V2 and V4 colonies extracted and screened. Permanent stocks of V2B and V4B stored in -80°C freezer.
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2.5% Na2S. These bottles will be used for future plating.
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-A test of Puromycin strength was started. 2 media tubes were used, one with 0.05 mL of
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Puromycin and 0.1 mL Na2S, while the other was not treated with anything (to serve as a
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control). From there, 0.2 mL of Methanococcus was added to each tube, and the tubes
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will be compared for Archaeal growth in the future.
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'''2013/04/10'''
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-Measure OD for AT and AT+GS cultures
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-Various appropriate dilutions of AT and GS+AT cultures were created relative to OD
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readings as described in the process from 2013/03/06.
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-Make three plates for AT and three plates for AT+GS
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-2 technical replicates at 10^-6 dilution at 0.6mL and 0.9mL per plate (using the
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tube with the higher OD measurement).
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-1 biological replicate at 10^-5 dilution at 0.6mL (lower of the tubes OD
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measurements).
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-Create 9 glycerol stock serum bottles as described in 2013/03/27 for future frozen
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stocks. 1 mLof glycerol was added, the bottles were then stoppered, capped, autoclaved
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and moved into the anaerobic chamber.
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'''2013/04/16'''
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-The two media tubes containing Methanococcus from 2013/04/09 were measured for
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OD values. The Na2S + Puromycin containing media had on OD of 0.049A and the
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control has an OD of 0.795. This data suggests that Puromycin is indeed still an effective
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antibiotic.
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-200 mL of liquid media was prepared.
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'''2013/04/17'''
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-Liquid media created 2013/04/16 was dispensed, stoppered, capped, pressurized to 15
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psi using nitrogen and carbon dioxide, autoclaved and placed back into the anaerobic
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chamber.
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-1 plate of AT+GS and 1 plate of AT samples created 2013/04/10 were used for creating
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cultures.
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-Four colonies from each plate were inoculated into respective media tubes for plating,
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and these plates were added to the incubator for growth. 
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2013/04/19
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-Colonies were picked from the plates created 2013/04/17 and inoculated into media
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tubes. These tubes were added to a 37C incubator for growth. The success of these
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colonies ends the purification process for all of our vectors.
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[[[[[SUMMER SEMESTER]]]]]]]]]]]]]
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'''2013/06/07'''
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'''Creation of Transformation Buffer (TB), Cysteine-HCL/DTT solution, and Mc media'''
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Smith, Peyton. Rodriguez, Nicholas. Burroway, Brandon.
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transformation.
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-Creation of 20ml of Cysteine-HCL/DTT solution in preparation of mcherry plasmid
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transformation
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-Creation of 400ml of formate liquid media - to be dispensed in 40 tubes @ 5ml each and
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20 agar bottles @ 10ml each
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-All three of these were sparged for an appropriate time and placed inside the anaerobic
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'''2013/06/10-2013/06/14'''
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'''Sequencing, Laundry and Transformation Preparation'''
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Smith, Peyton. Rodriguez, Nicholas. Burroway, Brandon. Fetchko, Travis.
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-mcherry plasmids were received from E. coli lab, and immediately sent to the sequencing
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center on campus.
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-All necessary buffers and solutions for methanococcus transformation were prepared.
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-Washing of all lab glassware.
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'''2013/06/17'''
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'''Review of GC/MS Protocol, Extraction, GC/MS Preparations, Transformation Prep'''
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Smith, Peyton. Fetchko, Travis. Hampton, Michael.
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-Extraction of AT and wild type cultures for future GC/MS analysis of geraniol
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production
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-Creation of six S0001 culture tubes to be used as the recipient methanococci for mcherry
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transformation
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'''2013/06/18'''
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'''Creation of Future GC/MS-Evaluated Cultures, Extraction, GC/MS Prep'''
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Smith, Peyton. Fetchko, Travis. Brandon, Burroway. Hampton, Michael.
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-Inoculation of GS, AT, and AT+GS into 10 media tubes (2, 4, and 4, respectively)
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-Geranyl acetate, originally created 2013/06/17, was added to two AT and two AT+GS
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tubes previously mentioned
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-Creation of geraniol and geranyl acetate solution to be used when creating GC/MS
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standards.
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-Extraction of supernatant from GS and GS+AT cultures for future GC/MS analysis of
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geraniol production.
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being resuspended
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of geraniol production 
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'''2013/06/19'''
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'''Sequence analysis & Transformation Prep'''
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Smith, Peyton. Hampton, Michael.
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'''2013/06/20'''
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'''MCherry Plasmid Transformation into Methanococcus'''
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Smith. Peyton. Hampton, Michael. Rhode, Benji. Fetchko, Travis. Rodriguez, Nicholas.
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Burroway, Brandon.
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majority of the transformation was completed inside the chamber in 1.5ml
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microcentrifuge tubes that could be centrifuged inside the chamber. The volumes of
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media and DNA were proportionally decreased according to the protocol. Four
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microcentrifuge tubes were made and proceeded through the protocol until the first
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addition of TB. Here, we combined the four microcentrifuge tubes into two to increase
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the number of recipient cells as OD values are expected to decrease during the
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transformation process. For TB and TB+PEG, one microcentrifuge tube received the
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amount according to the protocol, whereas the other microcentrifuge tubes received 60%
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the amount of TB and TB+PEG as the protocol indicates. These tubes were labeled A and
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B, respectively. Due to microcentrifuge tube B’s inability to form a proper cell pellet, A
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and B were combined into one balch tube, labeled AB, before being taken out of the
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chamber where we added 1ml of media, pressurized, and added to the incubator
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overnight. 
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'''2013/06/21'''
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'''Plating of Transformants and Creation of Puromycin Enriched Transformant Cultures'''
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s0001 as a positive control.
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enriched cultures in parallel to growing colonies.  A puromycin enriched tube was also
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'''Transformation Results, GC/MS Sample Creation, GS, AT and GS+AT Inoculation/Revival'''
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Smith, Peyton. Fetchko, Travis.
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available.
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'''Fluorescence Testing of MCherry, Creation of Media'''
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Smith, Peyton. Fetchko, Travis. Rodriguez, Nicholas
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use of fluorometer. See Rachit for raw data.
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'''2013/06/26'''
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'''Picking MCherry Colonies & Dispensing Media'''
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Smith, Peyton. Fetchko, Travis. Rodriguez, Nicholas.
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10^-2, 1 colony was picked from sample C 10^-2, and 3 colonies were picked from
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sample C 10^-1 and placed into respectively labeled tubes. These tubes were placed the
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'''2013/7/02-05'''
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LZ. Those cultures were further subcultured. 
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'''2013/07/10'''
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'''Creation of Sub-Cultures for Feeding Experiments'''
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Smith, Peyton. Rodriguez, Nicholas.
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o GS without any feed x2 (one was inoculated from room-temp culture, and the
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o AT fed with geranyl acetate (GA) x2 (GA diluted in hexanes)
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o AT fed with GA x2 (GA diluted in ethanol)
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o AT+GS without any feed x2 (derived from room temp cultures)
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o AT+GS fed with geranyl acetate (GA) x2 (GA diluted in hexanes)
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'''2013/07/12'''
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'''Extraction of AT and AT+GS and Creation of Killing/Inhibiting Experiment'''
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Smith, Peyton. Rodriguez, Nicholas.
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-Extraction protocol was completed for AT and AT+GS subcultures without any added
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feed that were originally created 2013/07/10. This extraction was completed for the sub-
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cultures’ supernatant.
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-The fed cultures’ inability to grow in the same amount of time from biological replicates
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as those that did grow without any feed lead us to create another experiment, where we
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shall test Methanococcus’ reaction to the exposure of all possibilities that could have
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caused it to not grow.
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inhibiting experiment. After inoculation of sub-cultures, the six original cultures were
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-List of samples and treatments: Inhibiting
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'''Analysis of Killing/Inhibiting Experiment and Creation of Maximum Boundary
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Experiment'''
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Smith, Peyton. Rodriguez, Nicholas.
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inhibiting to the growth of a culture and also enough to be lethal to a grown
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culture.
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o Hexane at the dilution used to introduce GA to a culture has no effect on the
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growth or lethality of a culture.
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o Geranyl Acetate (GA) introduced to a culture at a concentration of 10ng/5ml has
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o Geraniol inoculated cultures showed significantly higher OD readings in the
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growth cultures compared to their respective negative controls, but geraniol
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inoculated cultures with initially high OD values, had no change. Geraniol may be
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beneficial to the growth of methanococcus, but this observation is inconclusive.
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methanococcus culture could handle, also as a test to determine methanococcus’ highest
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possible production yield, at least in its current condition.
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was created for al. These samples were placed into the incubator for growth
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Smith, Peyton. Rodriguez, Nicholas. Hampton, Michael.
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created from, it is very unlikely that 5ml cultures are able to produce the 2ng/ul of
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geraniol that is necessary for detection in GC/MS. We decided to create three 100ml
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cultures of AT, GS, and AT+GS so that we may break the 2ng/ul detection limit.
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and AT+GS without any feed that was originally created 2013/07/10. This inoculation
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process should be completed through use of a vacutainer needle. Note: repressurize the
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5ml culture tubes before inoculating via vacutainer needle!
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'''Further Investigation of Maximum Boundary Experiment and GC/MS Booking'''
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Smith, Peyton. Rodriguez, Nicholas. Burroway, Brandon. Rahul.
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from the experiment somehow was exposed to oxygen, so the culture was pink, dead and
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not usable. All of the remaining tubes which had 10ng of GA grew with high OD values.
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labeled to have added 1000ng of GA did grow, could this have been the one that actually
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received <500ng? The result it this is inconclusive because we did not mark which tube
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received <500ng GA
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tolerance in methanococcus. 12 tubes were taken to create a similar experiment using 2
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samples, 3 treatments, and 1 replicate. The samples were AT and AT+GS, the treatments
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were 100ng, 500ng, and 1000ng of GA, and 1 replicate of each to ensure results. Note:
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== '''E. coli Lab''' ==
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Latest revision as of 23:26, 22 September 2013

Notebook

Methanococcus Lab

Instructor: ZHE LYU


February 2013

-Training on anaerobic skills, i.e. use of anaerobic glassware, gassing chamber, anaerobic chamber, etc.


March 2013

-Purification of GS, AT and GS+AT via revival of frozen stocks and plating of sub-cultures.


April 2013

-Further continuation of purification of GS, AT and GS+AT via picking colonies, creating sub-cultures and plating.

-Test of Puromycin strength.

-Creation of frozen stocks of purified GS, AT and GS+AT transformants.


June 2013

-Extraction of Geraniol from extra-cellular and intra-cellular content of samples and preparation for GC/MS evaluation

-Sequencing of pAW50-mCherry vector

-Analysis of pAW50-mCherry sequence

-Transformation of pAW50-mCherry vector into Methanococcus

-Testing Fluorescence of pAW50-mCherry

-Purification of pAW50-mCherry cultures via plating of transformants, and creating sub-cultures of colonies picked

-Creation of frozen stocks of pAW50-mCherry in Methanococcus


July 2013

-Creation and analysis of the "killing & inhibiting" experiment where we test the maximum amount of product a 5ml culture of Methanococcus can tolerate in cultures with high OD (killing of grown cells) and low OD (inhibiting of growth).

-Innovation of an adapter to allow the use of syringe needles on micropipettes.

-Expanded upon the original extraction protocol for higher efficiency of extraction of geraniol from Methanococcus cultures.

- GC/MS Evaluation and analysis (see results tab)


August 2013

-Revival and PCR of all GS and AT frozen stocks to confirm insert.

--Extraction of Geraniol from extra-cellular and intra-cellular content of all GS frozen stocks and preparation for GC/MS evaluation


September 2013

-Transformation of V4 into Methanococcus

-Testing Fluorescence of V4

-Purification of V4 cultures via plating of transformants, and creating sub-cultures of colonies picked

-Creation of frozen stocks of V4 in Methanococcus

-GC/MS Evaluation and analysis (see results tab)

E. coli Lab

Instructor: Rachit Jain


February 2013

-Training on PCR and heat shock transformation


March 2013

-PCR of GS gene

-Cloning of GS gene into pAW-50.

-Transformation of pAW-50 GS into species XL1-Blue. Transformed species spread onto ampicillin plates

-Verification of GS transformants via digestion and gel verification


April 2013

-Colonies for GS, AT, and GS+AT were selected from Methanococcus and corresponding genes were extracted. PCR and gel verification of GS, AT, and GS+AT genes. Results concluded successful in locating vectors from Methanococcus.

-PCR and gel verification of mCherry gene

-Cloning of mCherry gene into pAW-50 vector

-Verification of cloning via digestion and gel verification. After positive verification, ligation of digested products and heat shock transformation into XL1-Blue. XL1-Blue transformants spread onto ampicillin plates.

-XL1-Blue colonies picked and screened. Purification of pAW-50 mCherry from colonies, and stored in -20°C freezer.


June 2013

-Transformation of pAW-50 mCherry into XL1-Blue and creation of stock

-PCR of two mCherry sequences: one without RBS sequence (V2) and one containing RBS sequence (V4). Gel Verification of tools 1 and 2.

-Digestion and cloning of V2 and V4 into pAW-50 mCherry vector


July 2013

-Purification of digested vector, ligation, and transformation of vector into XL1-Blue. Transformants plated onto ampicillin plates.

-V2 and V4 colonies extracted and screened. Permanent stocks of V2B and V4B stored in -80°C freezer.

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