August, 9th

Assembly Team

We analyzed plaques spread the day before; it looked like if the bacteria could not grow. There were only three red colonies (negatives) in a plaque. Those devices had promoter and were assembled in high copy vectors. This is why we thought that the high expression of the devices could be harmful for bacteria. We analyzed the digestions in agarose gel to verify it. Almost all the digestions were well made and we only had to repeat two. In order to avoid that fact again, we assembled devices including promoters in low copy vectors. Like in before cases, we used different vectors depending on the resistance of the origin vectors we need. Below it is summed up:

• pSB4K5: (1+2) + (4)
• pSB4C5: (1+2) + (7+2)
• pSB3T5: (11) + (19) // (12) + (19)
• pSB3C5: (11+2) + (13+3) // (12+2) + (13+3) // (11+2) + (16+3) // (12+2) + (16+3) // (1+2) + (16+3)

The necessary digestions were made and the ligations were left over night at 13ºC on average.

In other hand, digestion: 2+5+3 with BamI-PstI. We started the following devices (3A method): 7+2+28; 2+6+2+5+3; 2+18; 28+3; 2+4+2+6; 2+28; 18+3: digestion, ligation and transformation.

DryLab Team

Modeling:

Simulation issues concerning concentrations' stability fixed. Concentrations behave as expected.

Beginning of E-coli movement modeling, basing on tumbling and straight swim.

First implementation of a random movement is successful.

Simulation of bacterial movement in an environment with Chemoattractants started. Bacteria move towards the concentration gradient, but they tend to move futher away once they reach the highest concentration point. Besides, when bacteria approach a side of the recipient they are in, they usually experience troubles coming back.

By the end of the day, the aforementioned issues are all fixed.