Team:Michigan/Quorum Sensing

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Made LB agar plates w/ ampicillin
Made LB agar plates w/ ampicillin
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*10 g LB broth
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*7.5 g agar
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*500 mL DI water
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*autoclaved mixture at 121°C for 30 min (sterilize time), following Mike Nelson's protocol
*autoclaved mixture at 121°C for 30 min (sterilize time), following Mike Nelson's protocol
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Revision as of 23:34, 19 July 2010


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Quorum Sensing Team

Members include Alex Pyden, Marcus Lehr, Jennifer Hong, Eric Raynal, Katie Miskovich, and Audra Williams

7/7/10

Jennifer and Alex - in Lin Lab

Made CaCl2 stock solution: 0.1M - 50mL

  • molar mass = 111 g/mol
  • (0.1 mol/L)(.05 L)(111 g/mol) = 555mg
  • dissolved 555 mg CaCl2 in 50mL DIwater
  • vacuum filtered into 50mL tube

Made ampicillin stock solution:

 -1 g ampicillin
 -5mL DIwater
 -ethanol
  • filtered by syringe into 15mL tube
  • put into ten 1mL alliquots in 1.5mL tubes
  • stored in -20°C in ERB lab

Inoculated E. coli DH5α from frozen stock into 12 mL LB broth

  • put in 30°C, 200 rpm shaking, overnight

~1.5 hrs

7/8/10

Alex, Jennifer and Eric - in ERB

Made LB agar plates w/ ampicillin

 -10 g LB broth
 -7.5 g agar
 -500 mL DI water
  • autoclaved mixture at 121°C for 30 min (sterilize time), following Mike Nelson's protocol

Created protocols for Obtaining Deionized Water in the ERB and ERB Spectrophotometer


poured 20 LB-amp plates (large)

  • left to solidify in ERB 1230
  • 12 plates were used by Ann for biobrick transformations
  • 8 plates were stored in 4°C ERB

~3.5 hrs work


Ann, Marc, Audra and Katie - in Lin Lab

Performed biobrick transformations using heat shock

After second washing:

  • ODs for sample 1 and 2 were 0.378 and 0.358 respectively

4 hrs of work

7/17/10

Alex & Jennifer - in ERB

Yesterday, Marcus stored newly obtained strains in 4°C in ERB

  • W3110 w/ plasmids pTC6 & pET-GFP
    • AI-2 reporter (E. coli, amp and kan-resistant)
  • MDAI2 w/ plasmids pCT6 & pET-GFP
    • AI-2 reporter & LuxS null mutant (E. coli, does not produce AI-2, amp and kan-resistant)

Removed these strains from 4°C -- they are stored in soft agar stab cultures Made one streak plate on LB+amp for each strain from stabs

  • placed in 374°C (rm. 1239)

Made one 2mL LB+amp broth cultures in a 15mL tube for each strain from stabs

  • placed in 30°C, 200 rpm shaking (rm. 1230)

Placed agar stabs and LB+amp broth in 4°C

~1.5 hrs work

Created protocol/plan for experiment. Testing AI-2 Response

--Infekt 00:26, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

7/19/10

Alex and Marcus

7/17 plates are no good -- they needed kanamycin

  • plates were discarded
  • broth cultures had kanamycin added a day later -- too late to be cryostored, but they were transfered to ERB 4°C

Made LB agar