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+ | .panel-body {font-family: 'Quicksand', sans-serif;} | ||
</style> | </style> | ||
</head> | </head> | ||
<body> | <body> | ||
+ | <div class="container-fluid"> | ||
+ | <!-- Banner--> | ||
+ | <div class = "row" style="margin-top:60px;padding:10px 0 0 0;background-color:#e2e2e2"> | ||
+ | <center><img class="crispy" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/9/93/T--Sydney_Australia--notebook_banner.png" class="img-center" width = "60%"></center> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse1">Week 1: 24/04/2017-30/04/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse1" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | -The 2017 University of Sydney iGEM team met up for the first time (on a | ||
+ | public holiday) | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | -The project was introduced to us by our PI Nick Coleman as well as team | ||
+ | member Alex Kelly, who introduced the project to Nick at a BioFoundry | ||
+ | meeting. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse2">Week 2: 1/05/2017-7/05/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse2" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Project design: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This week the team discussed various insulin analogues on the market as | ||
+ | well as a new type of analogue which is starting to appear in the | ||
+ | literature. This ‘Single chain insulin’ keeps the C-peptide incorporated, | ||
+ | resulting in greater stability. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We also discussed various expression systems for expressing our insulin. | ||
+ | Steph suggested expressing insulin in yeast. This was thought to be too | ||
+ | difficult as no one had much experience working with yeast. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex referred to several scientific papers that summarised the expression | ||
+ | of insulin in the periplasm of E.coli - allowing for simpler purification | ||
+ | of insulin. He also suggested purification using a His-tag fused to the | ||
+ | protein. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Various assays to test our insulin were compared. We compared antibody | ||
+ | assays (ELISA), cell culture glucose uptake assays, and an alternative C. | ||
+ | elegans assay where the bioactivity of the insulin can be monitored through | ||
+ | phenotype. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team agreed that we wanted to stay away from mice convulsion assays | ||
+ | due to ethical reasons. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse3">Week 3: 8/05/2017-14/05/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse3" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Project design: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This week, lead by our team legal expert Steph, the team looked at various | ||
+ | patented single chain and other insulin analogues and summarised their | ||
+ | features. We also looked through the patents for each of these insulins and | ||
+ | to determine which features are covered in the patent. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We also discussed expression systems for our insulin analogues. Steph | ||
+ | suggested using Bacillus subtilis to secrete our insulin if the protein was | ||
+ | fused to a secretion tag. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | - | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet Lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This week our PI Nick inducted us into the lab. He introduced us to the | ||
+ | other Honours and PhD students in the lab. We also met our team advisor | ||
+ | Mark. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse4">Week 4: 15/05/2017-21/05/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse4" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Project design: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Each member of the team received a free SnapGene license | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Our Secondary PI and protein expert, Jacqui Matthews, helped us design our | ||
+ | own single chain insulin analogue which we called Winsulin. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team narrowed down our research on insulin analogues and expression | ||
+ | and finalised which parts we plan to submit into the registry and/or | ||
+ | express. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We planned to express 3 different insulins: Human Proinsulin, a single | ||
+ | chain insulin found in a paper called SCI-57, and our own single chain | ||
+ | insulin Winsulin. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We plan to express each of these insulins in the cytoplasm of E. coli, the | ||
+ | periplasm of E. coli and to be secreted by Bacillus subtilis. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Our parts each included a 6x His tag for purification. Insulins that will | ||
+ | be expressed in the periplasm will have an Ecotin ‘periplasmic-expression’ | ||
+ | tag, and insulins that will be to be secreted will be fused to a YncM | ||
+ | ‘Bacillus-secretion’ tag. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This leaves 9 parts to be designed and synthesised. As a team of 8, each | ||
+ | team member was assigned a part. Our lab guru Jamie was assigned two of | ||
+ | these gBlocks to design as he was especially enthusiastic. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We hope to order them next week. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse5">Week 5: 22/05/2017-28/05/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse5" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Project design: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team worked really hard last week to finalise our gBlock parts. Rough | ||
+ | draft of the parts were made. Unfortunately, these still needed work. The | ||
+ | team spent the week fixing up the minor details such as codon optimisation | ||
+ | for E. coli and Bacillus subtilis and restriction enzyme recognition sites | ||
+ | in our gBlocks. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Education and Public Engagement: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney started up our team social media pages (Facebook, Twitter, and | ||
+ | Instagram) as well as our team email. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team agreed to participate in National Science Week at the Australian | ||
+ | Museum later in the year in cooperation with BioFoundry. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Fortnightly Skype meeting with Open Insulin Team! | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse6">Week 6: 29/05/2017-04/06/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse6" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Project design: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Our PI Nick suggested designing our own E.coli/Bacillus shuttle | ||
+ | replicative expression vector. However, we do not think that we will have | ||
+ | time to construct it. This could be a plasmid we design for future USYD | ||
+ | iGEM teams to construct. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Instead due to time constraints, our B.subtilis expression vector ended up | ||
+ | being an integrative plasmid called pUS258, designed by Yanwei - a PhD | ||
+ | student in our lab. Nick decided to use pET15b as our expression vector in | ||
+ | E. coli. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team explored various human practices approaches for the project, | ||
+ | including researching various charity organisations that focus on insulin | ||
+ | accessibility that we could get in contact with over the course of the | ||
+ | project. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Emaleen suggested Health Action International and the 100 Campaign. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex suggested getting in contact with Insulin for Life. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney suggested contacting the Australian government to discuss the | ||
+ | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which currently covers most of the insulin | ||
+ | costs in Australia. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse15">Week 7: 05/06/2017-11/06/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse15" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Project design: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This week Alex prepared a flow chart as an overview of our project. This | ||
+ | can be seen below. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Steph brought forward the idea of testing the functionality of our insulin | ||
+ | using adipocyte cells in a glucose uptake assay and consulted a few insulin | ||
+ | experts in other labs. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | - | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Sent emails to Health Action international and the World Health | ||
+ | Organisation in attempts to hear their opinions on insulin inaccessibility | ||
+ | world wide. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Fortnightly Skype meeting with Open Insulin Team! | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse7">Week 8: 12/06/2017-18/06/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse7" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Project design: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This week we finally placed the order with IDT for synthesis of our | ||
+ | designed gBlocks! | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This week we finally got started in the wet lab. With gBlocks still on | ||
+ | the way, the 8 of us spent time making up the essential media needed for | ||
+ | future lab work. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This included LOTS of LB broth, LB Agar, M9 minimal media, RF1 and RF2 | ||
+ | etc. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse8">Week 9: 19/06/2017-25/06/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse8" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica and Emaleen did plasmid preps on JM109 cells which contained our | ||
+ | expression vector pET15b. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Jamie and Steph digested the pET15b stock and ran it on an agarose gel in | ||
+ | order to quantify the concentration. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Fortnightly Skype meeting with Open Insulin Team! We were getting excited | ||
+ | to show them our first results. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse9">Week 10: 26/06/2017-02/07/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse9" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Our gBlocks finally arrived!!! | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex and Jamie digested our pSB1C3 stock and ligated the cytoplasmic and | ||
+ | Ecotin-tagged gBlocks into them. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica, Courtney and Grace transformed these vectors into TOP10 E.coli | ||
+ | cells – colonies grew for each of the transformations. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse10">Week 11: 03/07/2017-9/07/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse10" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | This was the start of our winter break – however, the team took advantage | ||
+ | of the break and planned to get a lot of lab work done. | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Grace and Emaleen performed a screening colony PCR on the transformations | ||
+ | from last week for verification. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Ruby and Courtney ligated our Bacillus secretion gBlocks (YncM tagged) | ||
+ | into pSB1C3. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Before transforming these vectors into TOP10 E.coli, we had to make a new | ||
+ | batch of these cells competent. Alex was in charge of this. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse11">Week 12: 10/07/2017-16/07/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse11" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Jamie redid the colony screening PCR on the TOP10 E.coli transformed with | ||
+ | our cloned pSB1C3 vectors from last week in order to get a clearer gel. The | ||
+ | results showed that Cytoplasmic Winsulin, Ecotin Winsulin and Ecotin | ||
+ | Proinsulin in pSB1C3 need to be retransformed into TOP10 E.coli. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Steph transformed the pSB1C3 vectors with the YncM gBlocks inserted last | ||
+ | week into TOP10 E.coli. These transformations did not work and we believe | ||
+ | that it is due to a problem with the ligation of the gBlock into pSB1C3. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse12">Week 13: 17/07/2017-23/07/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse12" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Jamie redid the ligation of the YncM gBlocks into pSB1C3 and transformed | ||
+ | these vectors into TOP10 E.coli. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Cytoplasmic Winsulin, Ecotin Winsulin and Ecotin Proinsulin were | ||
+ | re-ligated into in pSB1C3 and transformed into TOP10 E.coli by Ruby. Ecotin | ||
+ | Proinsulin and Ecotin Winsulin still didn’t appear positive on the agarose | ||
+ | gel. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Steph did plasmid preps on TOP10 E.coli transformed with pSB1C3::RFP to | ||
+ | regenerate our stock of this plasmid | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse13">Week 14: 24/07/2017-30/07/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse13" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet Lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica and Alex reattempted transforming pSB1C3::Ecotin Proinsulin and | ||
+ | pSB1C3::Ecotin Winsulin. These transformations worked! | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse14">Week 15: 31/07/2017-06/08/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse14" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><div> | ||
+ | •This week was the first week of semester 2 and the team were all back from | ||
+ | holidays and ready to continue work both in and out of the lab. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We received the WB800 strain of Bacillus subtilis which has 8 proteases | ||
+ | knocked out. This was kindly donated to us by Sui-Lam Wang’s lab from the | ||
+ | University of Calgary, Canada. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Now that it appears that all 9 gBlocks in pSB1C3 have been transformed | ||
+ | into TOP10 E.coli, Steph and Emaleen performed a colony screening PCR on a | ||
+ | few colonies of each transformation to verify presence of the gBlock. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex and Grace cloned all 9 Ecotin and Cytoplasmic gBlocks into pET15b. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney emailed Insulin for Life for more detail on what they do and what | ||
+ | they perceive to be the biggest problems contributing to insulin | ||
+ | inaccessibility. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Fortnightly Skype meeting with Open Insulin Team started back up again! We | ||
+ | had some excellent progress to show them. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
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+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse100">Week 16: 07/08/2017-13/08/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse100" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Lab work: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Based on the colony PCRs from last week, Emaleen and Steph performed | ||
+ | plasmid preps on those TOP10 E.coli which showed a positive result in the | ||
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− | + | •Dr David Beran from Health Action International replied to our email | |
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+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Education and Public Engagement: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Grace wrote up an Insulin Accessibility Survey and made it public on our | ||
+ | social media and the iGEM collaborations page. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team took shifts at the Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars (JAMS) | ||
+ | stall at the Australian Museum for National Science week. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse101">Week 17: 14/08/2017-20/08/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse101" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Emaleen, Ruby and Grace performed double digests on the prepped pSB1C3 | ||
+ | plasmids using the restriction enzymes EcoRI and Pst1. They then ran them | ||
+ | on an agarose gel to confirm that the plasmid contained an insert before | ||
+ | sending the plasmids off for sequencing. This had to repeated many times | ||
+ | until we finally got a good gel. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica transformed the Ecotin and Cytoplasmic gBlocks that were ligated | ||
+ | into pET15b in Week 13 into pET15b. These transformations were successful. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Steph and Courtney performed colony screening PCRs on these pET15b | ||
+ | transformations. Bands were not correct size | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Education and Public Engagement: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •On the 18th of August, Steph participated in a webinar over Skype hosted | ||
+ | by the Uppsala iGEM team. In this webinar, five teams discussed the ethics | ||
+ | behind intellectual property and open-source science within the context of | ||
+ | the iGEM competition. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team continued doing shifts at the JAMS stall at the Australian Museum | ||
+ | for National Science week. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Fortnightly Skype meeting with Open Insulin Team – this time joined by our | ||
+ | new collaborator in Ghent! | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse102">Week 18: 21/08/2017-27/08/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse102" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet Lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Emaleen and Jamie amplified the gBlock insert in these prepped plasmids. | ||
+ | The gel showed correct bands following the double digest and PCR with high | ||
+ | fidelity polymerase, so they were finally sent off for sequencing. We will | ||
+ | need to re-ligate the other inserts in to pSB1C3 (AGAIN!) | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •pSB1C3::Ecotin Proinsulin and pSB1C3::Cytoplasmic Proinsulin came back | ||
+ | with good sequencing results and these parts are now ready for submission | ||
+ | into the parts registry!! | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex and Courtney did plasmid preps on the positive TOP10 E. coli pET15b | ||
+ | transformations from the colony PCR performed last week. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Education and public engagement: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team set up a microbiology stand at the University of Sydney Open Day | ||
+ | where we spoke to future students about our experience doing science | ||
+ | degrees. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Organised a Skype call with Dr David Beran on the 30th August | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •This week we received advice from the university that we were at risk of | ||
+ | infringing patents if we went on to express SCI-57 and Winsulin. We | ||
+ | scrapped any work that had been done with these gBlocks. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Steph came up with a design for ‘Winsulin 2.0’ that would not infringe any | ||
+ | patents. It was based on the design of Prof. Peter Arvan from the | ||
+ | University of Michigan. We contacted him and he gave us permission to | ||
+ | continue working with the sequence for Winsulin 2.0 in an open-source | ||
+ | setting as he had no patent claims on it. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney contacted a patent attorney, Len Mancini, who works at Maxwell's | ||
+ | for advice about our newly designed Winsulin 2.0. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse103">Week 19: 28/08/2017-03/09/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse103" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We performed double digests on the prepped pET15b plasmids from last week | ||
+ | to verify insertion. We amplified the inserts of plasmids which, according | ||
+ | to our double digests, contained the correctly sized inserts. These | ||
+ | amplified inserts were then sent off for sequencing. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •In the meantime, we transformed the pET15b plasmids into BL21 cells to | ||
+ | start expression. These transformations were unsuccessful and will need to | ||
+ | be done again. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | • | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human Practice: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex Skyped Dr David Beran from Health Action International to discuss the | ||
+ | ACCISS reports and his research on insulin accessibility. It was an | ||
+ | extremely productive and informative discussion. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse105">Week 20: 4/09/2017-10/09/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse105" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Sequencing from last week was entirely bad quality. We determined to send | ||
+ | off PCRs rather than whole plasmid, so Jamie amplified the inserts in the | ||
+ | pET15b vector and sent them off for sequencing again. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney also redid the transformations of pET15b-gBlock into BL21, as | ||
+ | they didn’t work last week. This time we finally got some successfully | ||
+ | transformed cells! | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Emaleen performed colony PCR on these transformants and correctly sized | ||
+ | bands were seen. We hope to start induction next week. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Education and Public Engagement: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney, Grace, Emaleen and Jamie gave a talk about iGEM and our project | ||
+ | at an event hosted by the USYD Biomod team. These excellent scientists are | ||
+ | entered in the Biomod competition which focuses on biomolecular design. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse106">Week 21: 11/09/2017-17/09/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse106" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet Lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex made competent DH5α cells to use in the Interlab study. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica started transforming the test constructs into DH5α and performing | ||
+ | colony PCRs on them for verification of transformation | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Emaleen amplified the YncM proinsulin gBlock cloned into pSB1C3 for | ||
+ | sequencing | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We received new primers that bind either side of the gBlock inserts in | ||
+ | pET15b. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex did IPTG induction on BL21 cells transformed with pET15b containing | ||
+ | Ecotin and Cytoplasmic gBlocks. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | - | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human Practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Len Mancini, the patent attorney Courtney contacted a few weeks ago has | ||
+ | agreed to assist us with looking through patents and our Winsulin 2.0 | ||
+ | sequence | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney called Neil from Insulin for Life to discuss what goes on behind | ||
+ | the scenes at their organisation and to learn about the struggles of | ||
+ | sending insulin to impoverished countries with poor distribution systems. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse1012">Week 22: 18/09/2017-24/09/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse1012" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet Lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica and Emaleen finalised the transformation of Interlab study test and | ||
+ | control plasmids into DH5α cells and performed a colony PCR to verify this | ||
+ | transformation | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/3/32/T--Sydney_Australia--InterlabcolonyPCR1.png" width="40%"/> | ||
+ | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/8/8a/T--Sydney_Australia--InterlabcolonyPCR2.png" width="40%"/> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Jamie sent off pSB1C3::YncM Proinsulin for sequencing to verify the insert | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Education and public engagement: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team attended the Synthetic Biology Australasia conference and Emaleen | ||
+ | and Jamie gave a short presentation on our project | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse107">Week 23: 25/09/2017-1/10/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse107" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Emaleen and Erica performed the fluorescence and OD600 readings on the | ||
+ | cells for the Interlab study and submitted last minute on Friday! | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Courtney and Alex cloned Ecotin-Winsulin 2.0, YncM-Winsulin 2.0 and | ||
+ | Cytoplasmic-Winsulin 2.0 into pSB1C3 and transformed them into E.coli | ||
+ | TOP10, while simultaneously performing the ligation into pET15b. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Steph and Grace transformed pET15B::Cytoplasmic-Winsulin 2.0 and | ||
+ | pET15b::Ecotin-Winsulin 2.0 into TOP10 E. coli. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We ordered precast SDS-PAGE gels as our own gel casting skills left a lot | ||
+ | to be desired. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse108">Week 24: 2/10/2017-8/10/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse108" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica and Alex performed colony PCRs on the pSB1C3 and pET15b plasmids | ||
+ | transformed into TOP10 E.coli last week. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Many many gels were run and eventually we saw at least one positive result | ||
+ | for each colony PCR. Below is just two of these gels loaded with the PCRs | ||
+ | performed on the pET15b with Ecotin proinsulin inserted | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/5/5d/T--Sydney_Australia--wk24.png" width="45%"/> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#93bcc1!important;"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse109">Week 25: 9/10/2017-15/10/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse109" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Jamie sent some pSB1C3 submission vectors, some pET15b E. coli expression | ||
+ | vectors, and the pUS258 B. subtilis expression vectors off to sequencing to | ||
+ | verify correct gBlock insertion. Got verification of correct insertion so | ||
+ | that we can progress with submission into the parts registry and also | ||
+ | verification that we have the correct inserts in our expression vectors. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex performed autoinduction on our BL21 cells transformed with our pET15b | ||
+ | expression vectors with with our Cytoplasmic and Ecotin gBlock inserts. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •He then did periplasmic chloroform extraction for the cells transformed | ||
+ | with the Ecotin constructs and cytoplasmic extraction for those with the | ||
+ | cytoplasmic constructs and ran them on an SDS-PAGE gel. We did not get | ||
+ | conclusive results from this method, partly due to a disputable negative | ||
+ | control. Will go back to IPTG induction. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Human Practices: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Grace, Alex and Emaleen met with USYD bioethics expert Dr Narcyz Ghinea | ||
+ | who specialises in the ethics behind high cost medicines. We discussed | ||
+ | issues with how medicines are priced and the costs of going through | ||
+ | clinical trials. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Education and Public Involvement: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We were visited in the lab by a group of year 10 girls from Mt St | ||
+ | Benedicts school. Our PI Nick spoke to them about microbes in our | ||
+ | environment and Ruby, Grace and Emaleen taught them how to gram stain and | ||
+ | use a microscope. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#fad990!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse1011">Week 26: 16/10/2017-22/10/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse1011" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Emaleen and Grace made competent B. subtilis WB800 cells. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica transformed our bacillus expression vectors pUS258::Yncm-Winsulin | ||
+ | and pUS258::Yncm-Proinsulin into our competent WB800 B. subtilis cells. | ||
+ | These transformants were patched to a starch plate to identify where the | ||
+ | gene had been correctly integrated into the genome: | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/b/b2/T--Sydney_Australia--wk26.jpeg" width="45%"/> | ||
+ | <div>WB800 pUS258::YncM proinsulin</div> | ||
+ | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/9/9a/T--Sydney_Australia--wk26YncMWinsulin.jpeg" width="45%"/> | ||
+ | <div>WB800 pUS258::YncM Winsulin | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Erica and Jamie transformed our sequence verified pET15B with Ecotin | ||
+ | tagged gBlocks into E.coli expression vectors into BL21. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We decided to express the cytoplasmic gBlocks in the SHUFFLE strain as | ||
+ | this strain will aid in the folding of cytoplasmic proteins. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Alex and Courtney IPTG induced transformed B. subtilis and E.coli cells | ||
+ | transformed with our pET15B and pUS258 expression vectors. Grace and Alex | ||
+ | extracted the proteins and His-tag purified them, then and ran non-His tag | ||
+ | purified and His-tag purified samples on SDS-page gels. This didn’t give | ||
+ | any indication of protein expression. Alex and Grace then ran whole cell | ||
+ | lysates of these induced cells on a gel. It was still difficult to see | ||
+ | whether any protein expression has been induced | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/a/a8/T--Sydney_Australia--wk26SDSpage.png" width="45%"/> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <div class="row"> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-1"></div> | ||
+ | <div class="col-xs-10"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-group"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel panel-default"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-heading" style="background-color:#e8939c!important"> | ||
+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse1000">Week 27: 23/10/2017-29/10/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div id="collapse1000" class="panel-collapse collapse"> | ||
+ | <div class="panel-body"><p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Wet Lab: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Grace continued to run SDS-PAGE gels on our induced cell lysates for | ||
+ | insulin detection. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •We received the last of the sequencing data which correctly verified our | ||
+ | gBlocks were correctly inserted into pSB1C3. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Jamie did one final double digest for our parts and found that 5/6 of them | ||
+ | were able to be submitted. YncM proinsulin could not be submitted as the | ||
+ | double digest resulted in multiple bands. The parts were sent off on the | ||
+ | 27th of October. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <img src="https://2017.igem.org/File:T--Sydney_Australia--wk27doubledigestparts.png" width="45%"/> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •Jamie, Emaleen, Ruby and Steph performed an ELISA and glucose uptake assay | ||
+ | on our cell lysates. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The sandwich ELISA test detected insulin in the induced cell lysates | ||
+ | expressing parts Cytoplasmic Proinsulin, Ecotin Winsulin, Cytoplasmic | ||
+ | Winsulin and YncM Winsulin. The visible colours that appeared at the end of | ||
+ | this ELISA was single handedly the most exciting moment of this project. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The Glucose uptake assay showed some increased activity, however we were | ||
+ | hesitant to draw a strong conclusion from this before showing to some | ||
+ | experts. | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | <p style="font-family:'Quicksand';font-size:20px;color:#3e3f3f;"> | ||
+ | Integrated Human practices/Entrepreneurship: | ||
+ | </p> | ||
+ | <div> | ||
+ | •The team met with Mike Nicholls at the USYD start up hub Incubate as well | ||
+ | as Main Sequence Ventures to discuss the future of our project. | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
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+ | <h4 class="panel-title"> | ||
+ | <a data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapse10002">Week 28: 30/10/2017-05/11/2017</a> | ||
+ | </h4> | ||
+ | </div> | ||
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What I need for keeps this silly game we play, play
Now look at this (wiki, wiki)
Madness to magnet keeps attracting me, me (wiki, wiki)
I try to run but see I'm not that fast (wiki, wiki)
I think I'm first but surely finish last, last