Team:Newcastle/21 June 2010

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===Streak plating===
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Deena's steak plate picture.
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Star plate streaking student, Deena, shows off how it is to be done!
===Set up culture for minipreps===
===Set up culture for minipreps===

Revision as of 11:13, 24 June 2010

Monday

Wet Lab techniques practice

Tips:

  • Treat everything as a pathogen!
  • Work around the bunsen burner.
  • Use a control.
  • Clean the bench at the end of the day!
  • Heat the wire loop from the middle to the tip.
  • Keep plates upside down.
  • Keep lids off for as short a time as possible.
  • Loosen all the tops off the vessels before you start.
  • Flame tops of bottles lightly.

Streak plating

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Star plate streaking student, Deena, shows off how it is to be done!

Set up culture for minipreps

5ml culture with E.coli from a single colony grown over night. Tomorrow we will harvest the DNA.