Team:IISc-Bangalore/Notebook

  1. Preparation
  2. Week 1
  3. Week 2
  4. Week 3
  5. Week 4
  6. Week 5
  7. Week 6
  8. Week 7
  9. Week 8
  10. Week 9
  11. Week 10

Preparation

19/9/2017

Prepared

  • 500 ml LB
  • 400+200 ml LB Agar
  • 32 petri plates
  • 2x LB plates

Inoculated
  • DH5a in ml SOB (TSS comp cell prep)

20/9/17

1:30 AM

  • Set everything into autoclave

3:00 AM
  • Took everything out of the autoclave
  • Plates dried for 1 hr, agar stored in oven

4:00 AM
  • Plates dried in hood for 1 hr

5:00 AM to 7:00 AM
  • Plates poured
  • Cmp stock conc = 35 mg/ml, working conc = 35 ug/ml

21:30
  • TSS Protocol for comp cell prep

22:10
  • Set secondary culture

21/9/17

Optimizing PCR (set 1)

  • Made reaction mixture of 200 ul per template , for splitting into 8 * 25 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture
    • FP – 4ul
    • RP – 4ul
    • Stock template – 8 ul
    • 2x MM – 100 ul
    • ddH2O – 84 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR 9:30 PM
  • Ran products on 1% agarose TAE gel (22/9, 12:20 AM)

22/9/17

Optimizing PCR (set 2)

  • Made reaction mixture of 200 ul per template , for splitting into 8 * 25 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture
    • FP – 4ul
    • RP – 4ul
    • Stock template – 8 ul
    • 2x MM – 100 ul
    • ddH2O – 84 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR (23/9, 12 AM)
  • Ran products on 1% agarose SB gel (23/9, 11 PM)

23/9/17

Pooling PCR (set 2)

  • Sai - PCR 4, Sharath PCR 3
  • Made reaction mixture of 1000 ul per template , for splitting into 20 * 50 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture
    • FP – 20ul
    • RP – 20ul
    • Stock template – 40 ul
    • 2x MM – 500 ul
    • ddH2O – 420 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR (24/9 , 2:00 AM) and pooled products
  • Ran products on 1% agarose SB gel (24/9, 4:00 AM)

24/9/17

Pooling PCR 1

  • Made reaction mixture of 1000 ul per template , for splitting into 20 * 50 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture
    • FP – 20ul
    • RP – 20ul
    • Stock template – 40 ul
    • 2x MM – 500 ul
    • ddH2O – 420 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR (24/9 , 20:00) and pooled products
  • Ran products on 1% agarose SB gel (25/9, 00:30)

26/9/17

Optimizing PCR 2

  • Made reaction mixture of 160 ul per template , for splitting into 8 * 20 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture (Q5)
    • FP – 3.2ul
    • RP – 3.2ul
    • Stock template – 6.4 ul
    • 2x MM – 80 ul
    • ddH2O – 67.2 ul
  • PCR reaction mixture (Phu)
    • FP – 8ul
    • RP – 8ul
    • dNTP - 3.2ul
    • Stock template – 0.4 ul
    • Buffer - 32 ul
    • Phu pol - 1.6 ul
    • ddH2O – 106.8 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR (26/9, 11:50 PM)
  • Ran products on 1% agarose SB gel (27/9, 3 AM)


Interlab Day 1:-

  • Prepare 8 plates of Cmp LB agar plates
  • Plate the following
    • Positive control –B
    • Negative control – D
    • Device 1 – F
    • Device 2 – H
    • Device 3 – J
    • Device 4 – L
    • Device 5 – N
    • Device 6 - P

27/9/17

Pooling PCR 2

  • Made reaction mixture of 1000 ul per template , for splitting into 20 * 50 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture (Phu)
    • FP – 50ul
    • RP – 50ul
    • dNTP - 20ul
    • Stock template – 2.5 ul
    • Buffer - 200 ul
    • Phu pol - 10 ul
    • ddH2O – 667.5 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR ( 27/9, 9:30 AM)
  • Products were pooled (27/9 , 15:00)
  • No DNA pellet formed after purification and centrifugation. Thus PCR Failed


Interlab Day 2 protocols were carried out

28/9/17

Pooling PCR 2 (attempt 2)

  • Made reaction mixture of 1000 ul per template , for splitting into 20 * 50 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture (Phu)
    • FP – 50ul
    • RP – 50ul
    • dNTP - 20ul
    • Stock template – 2 ul
    • Buffer - 200 ul
    • Phu pol - 10 ul
    • ddH2O – 668 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR at 7 PM
  • Ran PCR gel (1% agarose, SB) at 9:30 PM


Interlab day 3 protocol was carried out

29/9/17

Optimizing PCR 5

  • Made reaction mixture of 200 ul per template , for splitting into 8 * 25 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture (Q5)
    • FP – 4ul
    • RP – 4ul
    • Stock template – 80 ul
    • 2x MM - 100ul
    • ddH2O – 12 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR 6:10 PM
  • Ran products on 1.2% agarose TAE gel 8:20 PM (all temp gave bands)


Optimizing PCR 6

  • Made reaction mixture of 160 ul per template , for splitting into 8 * 20 ul reactions
  • PCR reaction mixture (Phu)
    • FP – 8ul
    • RP5 – 7ul
    • RP6 - 1ul
    • dNTP - 3.2ul
    • Stock template – 0.4 ul
    • Buffer - 32 ul
    • Phu pol - 1.6 ul
    • ddH2O – 106.8 ul
  • Template stock – 100 ng/ul
  • Ran PCR 6
  • Ran products on 1% agarose SB gel


Interlab Day 4 protocol was carried out

2/10/17

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