2010-07-05
Malin och Katarina
An overnight culture were made from 4 different colonies of E.coli containing the plasmid pSB-GM1.

2010-07-06
Malin, Adnan and Peidi
Colony 1 and 2 were picked to do a miniprep. The plasmids were extracted and a plasmid integrity check was performed. By cutting with BamHI, one cut were made to get the size of the plasmid. Then we cut with ClaI which is a two-cutter that gives a fragment that is 600 bp and one that is 6800. The gel which should confirm this was not satisfactory since the 600 band was missing.

2010-07-07
Adnan, Katarina and Julia
As the gels from Tuesday showed ambigous results we decided to redo the miniprep of the plamids. We used the overnight preparations of the two unused colonies (3 & 4). The miniprep went smoothly except for major difficulties regarding untrustworthy pipettes. The pipettes marked with green tape are the ones to use from now on together with the tips with the same markings! A gel was molded and this time we decided to use a full gel to get a better resolution. The results on the gel where very good. The plasmids had clearly been cut in one or two places and the fragment sizes seem to correspond to the expected sizes.

2010-07-08
Malin, Julia and Peidi
The two BioBricks EYFP and ECFP were extracted from the kit plates and stored in the freezer. A SOC-medium was prepared.

2010-07-09
Malin and Julia
The SOC medium was autoclaved. Competent E.coli cells were transformed with our FPs through heat shock and plated on petri dishes. 20 new LB-amp plates were made.
Adnan and Katarina
Picked up primers at Chalmers and checked if they were ok. The concentration of the genomic DNA (SNF1 gene) were measured. Prepared a master mix so that the PCR-reactions could be started Monday morning.

2010-07-12
Adnan and Kemal
We ran a miniprep to purify the plasmids containing ECFP and EYFP from E.coli. The purification was successful. We checked if we had the correct product by cutting the plasmids with EcoRI and PstI. The restriction enzyme cut plasmids were to be run on a gel the next day.

2010-07-13
Karl and Adnan
We made duplicates of the haploid Snf4∆ and wildtype strains on new plates in case the original plate would be contaminated. Prepared a sporulation medium that was autoclaved and poured into empty growth plates to stay in room temperature over night.
Julia and Lokesh
We run the gel with products of our first three PCRs along with the templates we made for the two fluorescent proteins. We also prepared the sample solutions of DNA templates with appropriate concentration(1ng/µl) for the next PCR reactions.