Team:UChicago/Notebook

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===Week 4===
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====Wednesday, June 26, 2013====
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'''Planning Wet Lab Work'''
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*We split into planning sub-teams to plan out different parts of the project with protocols, timelines, and ordering reagents.
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**Plasmid Design
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**Media and Competent Cells
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**E. coli and B. subtilis Transformation
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**Keratinase Assay and His tagging
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**Running DNA gels, SDS-PAGE gels, and western blots
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*We will also be holding weekly meetings with our graduate student advisers and biweekly meetings with our faculty advisers to provide updates.
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*Wet lab work begins tomorrow!
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====Friday, June 28, 2013====
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'''Researching the Sequence of kerA'''
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*Planning subteams continued to order reagents and compile protocols.
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*The plasmid design team decided on gibson assembly to produce the kerA biobrick with geneblocks ordered from IDT.
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*kerA sequence was obtained from “Nucleotide Sequence and Expression of kerA, the Gene Encoding a Keratinolytic Protease of Bacillus licheniformis PWD-1” (Lin et al. 1995).
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[[File:UChicago 2013 kerA plasmid design.png]]
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*Two putative promoters (red), a possible ribosomal binding site (green), and a transcriptional terminator sequence (light blue, single underline) are indicated. The putative starting residues of the preprotein (pre = blue), proprotein (pro = pink), and mature protein (mature = purple) are indicated.
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*EcoRI (orange) and PstI (blue) sites within the gene are indicated and must be removed to produce the kerA biobrick.
==July==
==July==

Revision as of 08:29, 26 September 2013




Protocols


Contents

June

Week 3

Tuesday, June 18, 2013


First iGEM Meeting of the Summer!

  • All student members gathered in the lab.
  • We toured the lab, prep room, and incubator room, and we discussed the lab rules.
  • We also split into teams to discuss lab logistics: contacting funding sources, ordering reagents/materials, compiling protocols, recording our electronic lab notebook, and making plates/media.

Week 4

Wednesday, June 26, 2013


Planning Wet Lab Work

  • We split into planning sub-teams to plan out different parts of the project with protocols, timelines, and ordering reagents.
    • Plasmid Design
    • Media and Competent Cells
    • E. coli and B. subtilis Transformation
    • Keratinase Assay and His tagging
    • Running DNA gels, SDS-PAGE gels, and western blots
  • We will also be holding weekly meetings with our graduate student advisers and biweekly meetings with our faculty advisers to provide updates.
  • Wet lab work begins tomorrow!


Friday, June 28, 2013


Researching the Sequence of kerA

  • Planning subteams continued to order reagents and compile protocols.
  • The plasmid design team decided on gibson assembly to produce the kerA biobrick with geneblocks ordered from IDT.
  • kerA sequence was obtained from “Nucleotide Sequence and Expression of kerA, the Gene Encoding a Keratinolytic Protease of Bacillus licheniformis PWD-1” (Lin et al. 1995).

UChicago 2013 kerA plasmid design.png

  • Two putative promoters (red), a possible ribosomal binding site (green), and a transcriptional terminator sequence (light blue, single underline) are indicated. The putative starting residues of the preprotein (pre = blue), proprotein (pro = pink), and mature protein (mature = purple) are indicated.
  • EcoRI (orange) and PstI (blue) sites within the gene are indicated and must be removed to produce the kerA biobrick.

July

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

August

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

September

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3