Team:UCSF UCB/eric

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Thurs 14/05/29

1-13 Promoter Number Key:
1) PRM2
2) ASG7
3) FUS2
4) PCL2
5) FUS3
6) CLG1
7) YDR124W
8) HYM1
9) PRM6
10) PRM1
11) ECM18
12) PRM3
13) SAG1

PCR of 13 Alpha-factor inducible promoters

Reagents 1x reaction 4.5x MM
1) 5x HF Phusion Buffer 10ul 45ul
2) 10mM dNTPs 1ul 4.5ul
3) 10mM FW primers 2.5ul 11.25ul
4) 10mM Rev primers 2.5ul 11.25ul
5) Phusion Polymerase 0.5ul 2.25ul
6) Template DNA 0.5ul 2.25ul
7) ddH2O 33ul 148.5ul

~1kb: YDR124W, SAG1, PCL2, HYM1, FUS3

~700bp: CLG1, PRM2

~500bp: PRM6, PRM3, PRM1, FUS2, ECM18, ASG7

PCR Cycle (30)
98ºC    30secs
98ºC    10secs
55ºC    20secs
72ºC    30secs
72ºC    5mins
4ºC     hold

PCR products of #3,10,12 did not work. We Purified and nanodropped for concentrations:
                ng/ul
1) PRM2         13.49
2) ASG7         12.50
3) FUS2
4) PCL2         9.489
5) FUS3         11.77
6) CLG1         16.30
7) YDR124W      35.75
8) HYM1         23.61
9) PRM6         79.03
10) PRM1
11) ECM18       14.17
12) PRM3
13) SAG1        26.07

Gel1

Gel2

Gel3

Fri 14/05/30

Miniprepped overnight cultures of phy4 (4)

Conentrations:

  1. 55.15 ng/ul
  2. 65.40 ng/ul <-- pipette error, less than 43ul so we added 5ul H2O
  3. 52.89 ng/ul
  4. 31.65 ng/ul

Used #1,2 for digest with ApaI and XhoI

Digestion (Yesterdays Promoter PCR products, 10)

29ul of product
33ul of 10x Cutsmart buffer

1) Add 0.5ul of ApaI. Mix gently, spin down, incubate at room temp. for 2 hours
2) Add 0.5ul of XhoI. Mix gently, spin down, incubate at 37ºC for 1 hour
3) PCR cleanup (purple tubes) for PCR reactions (Promoters)

Concentrations after PCR cleanup:
1) 14.54
2) 4.326 redo, 5.489
4) -0.05256 redo, 1.730
5) 1.886 redo, 2.642
6) 41.05
7) 3.187
8) 19.09
9) 9.677
11) 1.868
13) 23.78

Digestion (Backbone pHY4) Cutting out present promoter to replate with ours

43ul of DNA
5ul of Cutsmart

1) Add 1ul ApaI. Mix gently, spin down, incubate at room temp for 2 hours
2) Add 1ul of XhoI, Mix gently, spin down, incubate at 37ºC for 1 hour
3) Gel extract backbone, don't want the promoter cutout

Mon 14/06/02

Ligated #1,2,5,6,7,8,9,13 with the 6kb pHY4 backbone

We only had enough backbone for 8 reactions so we chose the 8 promoters with the highest concentration.

Used Gibson ligation calculator to calculate mLs of reagents of our reaction.

Genes Concentrations Backbone(ul) Insert(ul) Water(ul)
PRM2 14.54 3 1.1 12.9
ASG7 5.489 3 2 12
FUS3 1.73 2.3 10 4.7
CLG1 41.05 3 0.4 13.6
YDR124W 3.187 3 7.1 6.9
HYM1 19.09 3 1.2 12.8
PRM6 9.677 3 1.2 12.8
SAG1 23.78 3 0.9 13.1

Transformed α-inducible Promoters in pHY4 into DH5α competent cells. 50uls for each transformation instead of 25uls.

9 Plates for 8 promoters and 1 negative control.

Redo-PCR of AFRPs that didn't work or had low yield. Redoing: 3,4,7,10,11,12

After PCR with the same primers, we ran it through a 1% gel

Tues 14/06/03

Transformation of pHY4 + AFRP

#7  ⎫
#9  | Grew at least a few colonies so they did okay
#13 ⎭

The rest, 1,2,5,6,8 didn't grow likely because of our low yield template promoter DNA. We need to restart and PCR promoters again for higher yield DNA. Then ligate and transform

Yesterdays AFRP PCR yields:
#4   84.35 ng/ul
#7   134.3 ng/ul
#10  84.14 ng/ul
#11  91.99 ng/ul
#12  64.64 ng/ul

Miniprepped cultures of Mach1 with pHY4 to get more pHY4 template.

*The PE buffer we used previously did not contain ethanol which was why we were having low yields for minipreps and other purifications.

Concentraions of pHY4
1) 360.2 ng/ul
2) 398.8 ng/ul
3) 322.2 ng/ul
4) 240.2 ng/ul

Digestion of AFRP PCR products (4,7,10,11,12)

50ul PCR product
5ul of 10x Cutsmart buffer

1) add 1ul of ApaI, incubate at room temp for 2 hours

2) add 1ul of Xho1, incubate at 37ºC for 1 hour

Digestion of pHY4 backbone (2 tubes)

43ul of DNA
5ul Cutsmart buffer

* 1 unit of enzyme = 1ug of DNA = 1000ng
    * 300ng/ul *43ul = 12,900 = Need 13units
    * Unit count depends on the RE. Need to check the product.
    * Always want excess RE

1) add 1ul ApaI, incubate at room temp for 2 hours
2) add 1ul of Xho1, incubate at 37ºC for 1 hour

Ran the backbone digest through a gel.

Gel of digested pHY4 with ApaI & XhoI

The streaks of pHY4 suggests that its been cut up by other nucleases so we can't purify this as our backbone. So we created overnight cultures of Mach1+pHY4 and are sequencing leftover digested phy4 to see if we have the backbone we want.

Created overnight cultures of the transformations that seemed to work: 7,9,13

Tomorrow we will miniprep and purify the construct for promoter testing.

Weds 14/06/04

Miniprepped yesterdays cultures of YDR124W, SAG1, and PRM6, pHY4

Concentrations of minipreps
YDR124W.1     539.4 ng/ul
YDR124W.2     555.4 ng/ul
YDR124W.3   594.3 ng/ul
YDR124W.4   652.5 ng/ul
YDR124W.5   481.5 ng/ul
YDR124W.6   377.7 ng/ul

PRM6.1      545.3 ng/ul
PRM6.2      569.1 ng/ul
PRM6.3        656.8 ng/ul
PRM6.4      570.8 ng/ul
PRM6.5      558.6 ng/ul

SAG1.1      538.1 ng/ul
SAG1.2      532.1 ng/ul
SAG1.3      505.8 ng/ul

pHY4.1      179.8 ng/ul
pHY4.2      155.6 ng/ul
pHY4.3      231.7 ng/ul

Ianto and Jessica digested and PCR purified 1,2,6,8,9,10,13

AFRP PCR Concentrations:
1. PRM2   58.91 ng/ul
2. ASG7   68.53 ng/ul
6. CLG1   15.13 ng/ul
8. HYM1   78.56 ng/ul
9. PRM6   132.6 ng/ul
10. PRM1  41.72 ng/ul
13. SAG1  91.24 ng/ul

Made a positive control digest of Hyun's pHY4 backbone.

Tomorrow we will run it through a gel and gel extracted it.

Thurs 14/06/05

Yesterday we made solutions for the yeast transformations we will do today.

Check chemical container information to confirm molar mass, sometimes they may be different.

50mL of LiOAc: Molar mass = 60.99g/mol / 20 = 3.3 grams in 50mL of H2O ~pH8

50mL Trizma: Molar mass = 157.60g/mol / 10 / 20 = 0.788 grams

50mL EDTA Molar mass = 292.24g/mol.  Used 0.146 grams in 50mL of H2O ~pH7.5

50% PEG.  Used 25grams of PEG + H2O until 50mL.  Heat in 50ºC water bath to melt all PEG.  Store tube in foil to protect from light at 4ºC

Fri 14/06/06

Out for the day. What I missed:

1-13 Promoter Number Key: 1) PRM2 2) ASG7 3) FUS2 4) PCL2 5) FUS3 6) CLG1 7) YDR124W 8) HYM1 9) PRM6 10) PRM1 11) ECM18 12) PRM3 13) SAG1

Transformed 1,2,4,6,7,10,11,12, and negative control. The negative control grew colonies so the backbone may have liated back by itself so we are using phosphitase to remove phosphates so that it cannot ligate together.

They then colony PCRed and sequenced.

AFRP 1 2 3 4 5
1 X X
2 X
4
6
10 X X X
11 X X
12

Mon 14/06/09

Today we are miniprepping 2 of each successful colonies from the colony PCR

YDR124W ⎫ PRM6 | All grew 100+ colonies SAG1 ⎭

We are doing colony PCR on 5 colonies of each transformaiton. All 5 colonies are also patched as a stock and are circled on the plate when colony PCR confirms that they have the gene knock in.

Anneling temp at 50ºC for 30secs
Polymerase extension at 72ºC for 1min
Length of PCR product should be 940bp

Tues 14/06/10

Ianto and Jessica are digesting pHY4 + AFRP, all 11, and are PCRing out the bakbone w/o the GFP. Derrick has PCRed the rtTA with ends that have homolog to the digest ends NotI and XhoI of the plasmid being digested. 9 of 11 PCRs have worked for Derrick. Digest overnight at 37ºC

Finished product should be pHY4+AFRP+rtTA. Then they will be digested with PmeI ad transformed into yeast.

Weds 14/06/11

Redoing PCR of 2 and 12 of rtTA with homology ends to the 2, 12 promoters and the backbone.

PCR of gibson homology of rtTA to ASG7 & PRM3

5x HF buffer            10ul
dnTPs                   1ul
FW primer               2.5ul
Rev primer          2.5ul
Phusion Polymerase  0.5ul
Template                0.5ul
ddH2O                   33ul

PCR cycle (30)
98ºC   30secs
98ºC   10secs
55ºC   20secs
72ºC   30secs
72ºC   5mins
4ºC        hold

Concentrations of the 9 successful so far of PCR of gibson homology

1.PRM2       190.9 ng/ul
4.PCL2   149.1 ng/ul
6.CLG1       412.1 ng/ul
7.YDR124W  90.37 ng/ul
8.HYM1       248.9 ng/ul
9.PRM6      145.7 ng/ul
10.PRM1    71.88 ng/ul
11.ECM18   199.7 ng/ul
13.SAG1    65.55 ng/ul

We gibsoned inserts of rtTA with homology to the PCR backbone w/o GFP. The gibson reaction was in 10ul with 2 controls (backbone w/o insert)-1)CLG1, 2)PCL2

Incubated samples at 50ºC for 1hour

Thurs 14/06/12

The gibson reaction with backbone w/o GFP and insert of rtTA did not work

Today we will do a seamless reaction which is similar to gibson but is better with inserts that have shorter homology sequences.

Mon 14/06/16

Transformations of rtTA+AFRP in E.coli are going to be colony PCRed. Of the 11, SAG1 & PRM1 did not grow. We are PCRing rtTA, seeing if it has successfully transformed.

Protocol: Inoculate colony in 25ul of H2O, use 5ul for PCR template and the rest can be use for making 5mL cultures

Insert E.coli colony PCR

PCR mastermix

Reagents 1x 4x
Template DNA 5ul n/a
Gotaq mix (2x) 12.5ul 50ul
FW primer 1.25ul 5ul
Rev Primer 1.25ul 5ul
H2O 5ul 20ul
PCR cycle (30x)
98ºC   2min
98ºC   30secs
55ºC   30secs
72ºC   1.5mins
72ºC   5mins
4ºC        hold

9 AFRP Promoters E.coli Colony PCR

Colony PCR of the 22 transformations.

Insert yeast colony PCR

PCR mastermix 1x 70x
2x GoTaq 10ul 700ul
10uM FW 1ul 70ul
10uM Rev 1ul 70ul
H2O 5ul 350ul
boiled yeast template 3ul n/a
PCR cycle (30x)
95ºC   5mins
95ºC   45secs
50ºC   30secs
72ºC   1min/kb
72ºC   10min
4ºC        hold

Every PCR is being run on 1% agarose gel

Number of colony PCRs: 66 colonies from yeast, 27 from 9 rtTA+AFRP, 25 from constitutive promoters

Tues 14/06/17

Since colony PCR of the 22 transformations didn't all work, we are redoing it. Only 5 strains of the 22 strains were successful (11 CB008, 11 CB008DB). Checking URA site integration, expecting 940bp bands.

Colony PCRs to redo:

CB008DB CB008
PRM1 PRM1
YDR124W YDR124W
PRM3 PRM3
PRM6 PRM6
PCL2 ECM18
SAG1 PRM2
HYM1 CLG1
ASG7
Mastermix 1x 80x
2x GoTaq 10ul 800ul
10uM FW 1ul 80ul
10uM Rev 1ul 80ul
H2O 5ul 400ul
Boiled Yeast template 3ul n/a

FW/REV primer: "606V2"

Colony PCR CB008+AFRP+GFP

Colony PCR CB008/CB008DB +AFRP+GFP

Colony PCR CB008DB+AFRP+GFP

Yesterday we made culturesof the AFRP+rtTA (all successful), 2 of each. Today we miniprepped them to prepare to transform into yeast. Transform into yeast after linearization/digest with Pme1.

Concentrations of AFRP+rtTA constructs:

ECM18+rtTA #1    308.3 ng/ul
ECM18+rtTA #2    231.6 ng/ul
PCL2+rtTA #1     162.7 ng/ul
PCL2+rtTA #2     247.3 ng/ul
PRM6+rtTA #1     248.1 ng/ul
PRM6+rtTA #2     327.9 ng/ul
ASG7+rtTA #1     351.7 ng/ul
ASG7+rtTA #2     593.5 ng/ul
HYM1+rtTA #1     221.7 ng/ul
HYM1+rtTA #2     413.0 ng/ul
PRM2+rtTA #1     324.3 ng/ul
PRM2+rtTA #2     339.6 ng/ul
PRM3+rtTA #1     351.5 ng/ul
PRM3+rtTA #2     316.7 ng/ul
CLG1+rtTA #1     289.0 ng/ul
CLG1+rtTA #2     276.8 ng/ul
YDR124W+rtTA #1  366.0 ng/ul
YDR124W+rtTA #2  239.3 ng/ul

Weds 14/06/18

Transforming 9 AFRP+rtTA plasmids into yeast. Ianto linearized the plasmids #1 and some of #2 depending on the sequences that came back (most won't work)

Preparing for the first flow experiment tomorrow. Everyone gets a promoter.

AFRP+rtTA owners
PRM2 - George
ASG7 - Sabrina
PCL2 - Eric
CLG1 - Derrick
YDR124W - Ianto
PRM6 - Ianto
PRM1 - Robert
ECM18 - Robert
PRM3 - Eleanor
SAG1 -Jessica

Also transformed the 2 AFRP+GFP that didnt work last time HYM1 (08/DB) & PRM3 (DB)

Made overnight cultures of the strain CB008+AFRP to test in on the flow after induction with 5 alpha-factor concentrations (0nM, 10nM, 1000nM, 10,000nM, 100,000nM)

Thurs 14/06/19

  1. Overnight cultures of CB008+AFRP+GFP diluted ~100x (to a final concentration of OD600 0.5-0.1, Saturated overnight cultures should be OD600 of ~7) in SD complete media, and grown for 3 hours, 1000rpm shaker, 30ºC. Growing in 2mL well plates

  2. Induce with Alpha-factor. Stock is in 3mM. Final concentrations are 0, 1nM, 10nM, 100nM, 1000nM. Alpha-factor cannot be refrozen, so throw leftover away.

  3. Induce for 90mins, but no longer than 120mins

  4. Transfer 250u of each well into a V-bottom 96-well plate containing 10ul of the fixing chemical Cyclohexamide. (thats 4 ul for every 100ul of culture) Cyclohexamide stops protein production by inhibiting ribosomes.

  5. Run on the flow cytometer.

Flow Cytometer things to remember:

  • check the sheath fluid box to see if its empty
  • check the waster container. If full, dispose and add new bleach
  • take care not to leave the machine on run. Save sheath fluid by keeping on standby when not in use
  • find parameters using negative controls. (FSC, SSC, Fluorescense marker)
  • DO NOT RUN PLATE. RUN WELLS instead. (Run the first well by itself first b/c it needs time to create file folders.) this causes problems.
    • Run plate only saves data of the first well.
    • Can rerun through the first well again which would suck up air. Air no good for the machine.
  • highlight wells and change settings on the right in the aquisition dashboard screen
  • mixing speed 180ul/sec
  • mix 3 times rather than 2
  • run at 1ul/sec for samples and 0.5ul/sec for negative controls when finding parameters.
  • make sre uL doesn't exceed samle to prevent sucking up air. (Rule of thumb is to run 50ul less than allotted sample sizes for wells.)

Voltage settings were gotten by running negative controls and adjusting to readouts seen in histogram form of FSC, SSC, FITC

Parameters of todays flow

FSC: 250
SSC: 280
FITC(GFP): 550
B(RFP): 650

Flow rate: 1µL/sec
Sample Volume: 200µL
Mixing Volume: 100µL
Mixing speed: 180µL/sec

Plate map

    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A   [------NEG------]       [------NEG-------]
B   [------PRM2-----]       [------PRM1------]
C   [------ASG7-----]       [------EMC18-----]
D   [------PCL2-----]       [------PRM3------]
E   [------NEG------]       [------SAG1------]
F   [------CLG1-----]
G   [------YDR124W--]
H   [------PRM6-----]
  1. Analyze data.

Fri 14/06/20

Continuation of Weds 14/06/18:

6 of the 9 transformations in yeast failed for the AFRP+rtTA

Those that failed are:
ASG7
CLG1
YDR124W
HYM1
ECM18
PRM3

This means we need to go back to our E.Coli plates and miniprep colonies for sequencing again, then linearize and transform into yeast. Yesterday cultures were made of these 6, 5 colonies each except YDR124W which only had 3. Today we are miniprepping them and sending them for sequencing.

Nanodrop Concentrations:
YDR124W.3   241.7 ng/ul
YDR124W.4   386.5 ng/ul
YDR124W.5   439.6 ng/ul
ASG7.3      207.7 ng/ul
ASG7.4      319.8 ng/ul
ASG7.5      287.2 ng/ul
ASG7.6      300.2 ng/ul
ASG7.7      338.5 ng/ul
CLG1.3      408.0 ng/ul
CLG1.4      306.0 ng/ul
CLG1.5      277.6 ng/ul
CLG1.6      249.8 ng/ul
CLG1.7      277.1 ng/ul
HYM1.3      440.1 ng/ul
HYM1.4      342.4 ng/ul
HYM1.5      388.7 ng/ul
HYM1.6      226.7 ng/ul
HYM1.7      351.2 ng/ul
ECM18.3     377.0 ng/ul
ECM18.4     426.8 ng/ul
ECM18.5     368.8 ng/ul
ECM18.6     459.7 ng/ul
ECM18.7     372.9 ng/ul
PRM3.3      430.4 ng/ul
PRM3.4      441.8 ng/ul
PRM3.5      361.7 ng/ul
PRM3.6      375.6 ng/ul
PRM3.7      333.1 ng/ul

Mon 14/06/23

Found out that we were missing the activation domain of rtTA, the rtTA we've been cloning for the past 2-3 weeks has been wrong.

New primers for the full rtTA has been made

Digested more backbone with AFRP+GFP to prepare for correct rtTA insert.

Tues 14/06/24

Today we did Flowjo data analysis with Hyun and Kara with data from our last flow experiment, Thur 14/06/19

  1. Data from usb transfer to save file folder in nanodrop room computer.
  2. Drag all well data into flojo
  3. Set up a gate for all data to select for appropriate size cells. Excludes large cells which are clumped together and small debree or bacteria, which are small.
  4. Find the mean fluorescense and use that data to make a graph in matlab.

Prelim Flow of CB008 +AFRP+GFP

Code for my PCL2 graph:

alpha = [0.01 1 10 100 1000]
CB008 = [446 438 532 592 590]
yGEM5 = [2568 2759 3487 5829 7935]

figure(1)
semilogx(alpha,CB008,'--bo')
hold all
semilogx(alpha,yGEM5,'--rs')
xlabel('[Alpha-Factor][nM]')
ylabel('MeanGFP[Au]')
title('yGEM5 GFP vs [Alpha-Factor]')
legend('CB008','yGEM5')

Primers for the correct rtTA with the activation domain came. Jessica and Sabrina are doing the PCR for rtTA.

Gel photo of backbone digest +promoter+GFP Backbone digest with homology to AFRP

Already cut plasmid   49ul
Fresh plasmid         5ul
Cutsmart              6ul
Not1                  0.5ul
Xho1                  1ul

incubate at 37ºC for 2 hours

After digestion, Ianto & Jessica cut out and gel extracted the ~8kb backbone

Concentrations: (Ianto & Jessica)
pHY4+ASG7+GFP   23.77 ng/ul
pHY4+CLG1+GFP   16.59 ng/ul
pHY4+HMY1+GFP   12.96 ng/ul
pHY4+ECM18+GFP  21.39 ng/ul
pHY4+PRM3+GFP   15.20 ng/ul

Concentrations: (Derrick)
pHY4+YDR124W+GFP   15.46 ng/ul
pHY4+SAG1+GFP      12.10 ng/ul
pHY4+PRM6+GFP      21.74 ng/ul
pHY4+PRM1+GFP      4.186 ng/ul
pHY4+PCL2+GFP      6.348 ng/ul
pHY4+PRM2+GFP      0.451 ng/ul

I was asked to transform 6 things in DH5α: 1. HY3E (has rtTA) 2. pHY4 (for stock) 3. HY130E (TRP) 4. HY121E1 (URA3) 5. HYS4E2 (HIS3) 6. HY111E2 (LEU2)

Weds 14/06/25

11:30am, made cultures my transformations done yesterday for minipreps.

DH5α Transformations Colony Count
1. HY3E (has rtTA) 8
2. pHY4 (for stock) 100+
3. HY130E (TRP) 100+
4. HY121E1 (URA3) 100+
5. HYS4E2 (HIS3) 100+
6. HY111E2 (LEU2) 100+

Derrick and Ianto made yeast cultures to test promoters in flow tomorrow.

The yeast was taken from patch plates.

They created streak plates to get individual colonies as well. We need individual colonies for biological replicates.

Thurs 14/06/26

Yesterday I made cultures of 6 transformations for minipreps. 1. HY3E (has rtTA) 2. pHY4 (for stock) 3. HY130E (TRP) 4. HY121E1 (URA3) 5. HYS4E2 (HIS3) 6. HY111E2 (LEU2) They grew for 22 hours so their concentrations are very high.

Miniprep concentrations (minipreps done by Jessica):

HY3E #1      628.1 ng/ul
HY3E #2      875.2 ng/ul
HY130E #1    549.3 ng/ul
HY130E #2    696.8 ng/ul
HY121E1 #1   152.9 ng/ul
HY121E1 #2   539.7 ng/ul
HYS4E2 #1    424.4 ng/ul
HYS4E2 #2    672.7 ng/ul
HY111E2 #1   555.3 ng/ul
HY111E2 #2   679.0 ng/ul
pHY4 #1      487.0 ng/ul
pHY4 #2      554.2 ng/ul
  • Flow cytometry, testing (triplicate) PRM2, ASG7, PLC2, CLG1
  • Alpha-factor concentrations: (Induce for 90mins)
  • (0nm, 0.5nm, 1nm, 10nm, 100nm, 1000nm, 3000nm)

Starting concentration is 3mM or 3,000,000nM Make 100x stocks and add 10ul to the 1mL cultures: 0nM 50nM 100nM 1000nM 10,000nM 100,000nM 300,000nM

Plate 1 & 2 Alpha Factor Concentration Map:

    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A   [-------------------{0 nM}-------------------]
B   [-------------------{0.5 nM}-----------------]
C   [-------------------{1 nM}-------------------]
D   [-------------------{10 nM}------------------]
E   [-------------------{100 nM}-----------------]
F   [-------------------{1000 nM}----------------]
G   [-------------------{3000 nM}----------------]
H   

Plate 1:
    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------CB008-1--------]
2       [--------CB008-2--------]
3       [--------CB008-3--------]
4       [--------PRM2-1---------]
5       [--------PRM2-2---------]
6       [--------PRM2-3---------]
7       [--------ASG7-1---------]
8       [--------ASG7-2---------]
9       [--------ASG7-3---------]
10      [--------PCL2-1---------]
11      [--------PCL2-2---------]
12      [--------PCL2-3---------]

Plate 2: 
   H    G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------CLG1-1---------]
2       [--------CLG1-2---------]
3       [--------CLG1-3---------]
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Fri 14/06/27

Continuation of CB008+AFRP+GFP FACs.

PRM6+GFP did not grow up yesterday.

ROUND 3 PLATE 1 PROMOTER MAP

    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------CB008-1--------]
2       [--------CB008-2--------]
3       [--------CB008-3--------]
4       [--------YDR124W-1------]
5       [--------YDR124W-2------]
6       [--------YDR124W-3------]
7       [--------PRM3-1---------]
8       [--------PRM3-2---------]
9       [--------PRM3-3---------]
10      [--------PRM1-1---------]
11      [--------PRM1-2---------]
12      [--------PRM1-3---------]

ROUND 2 PLATE 2 PROMOTER MAP [DID NOT COMPLETE]

   H    G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------ECM18-1--------]
2       [--------ECM18-2--------]
3       [--------ECM18-3--------]
4       [--------SAG1-1---------]
5       [--------SAG1-2---------]
6       [--------SAG1-3---------]
7
8
9
10
11
12

Instructions for starting flow:

  • Turn on and wait 30mins for the machine to warm up
  • Re-initialize the HTS, them prime it three times. You'll get a bubble in the lines if you don't
  • Run CST!!! Follow the sheet in front of the monitor for more instructions for that part. (CST uses beads to calibrate the laser detection.) add one drop into 250ul of sheath fluid in A1.
  • Bead LOT ID: use the one that is most current
  • Load A1-A4 with bleach and B1-B4 with water [flip for the opposite corner] -Cytometer>CST. Make sure cytometer performance results passed

Run Clean Plate: 1. Click on experiment. Experiment>Open experiment 2. Open clean plate "Daily Clean" - 96 well U-bottom" 3. Be here to see if the cleaning is going correctly, low events (less than 100events/sec for bleach and less than 10events/sec for water) 4. If over the events, run another clean plate 5. View events in aquisition dashboard in view>Acquisition dashboard 6. Can also make a clean plate using HTS>Clean

Mon 14/06/30

Continuation of CB008+AFRP+GFP FACS. Also testing Constitutive pTEF1 promoters +GFP today

ROUND 4 MAP

   H    G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------ECM18-1--------]
2       [--------ECM18-2--------]
3       [--------ECM18-3--------]
4       [--------SAG1-1---------]
5       [--------SAG1-2---------]
6       [--------SAG1-3---------]
7       [--------CB008-1--------]
8       [--------CB008-2--------]
9       [--------CB008-3--------]
10
11
12

Constitutive Promoter MAP

    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A   [-CB008-]       
B   [-pTEF1-]       
C   [-m3----]       
D   [-m6----]       
E   [-m7----]       
F   [-m10---]
G   
H   

Tues 14/07/08

Meeting with Anusuya:

  • Site directed mutagenesis of ribosome binding sites to fine tune expression of proteins. Tune down the effect of the promoters
  • Two promoters back to back to increase expression?
  • Find out how to differentiate yeast strains when they are co-cultured.
  • Maybe work more with constitutive rather than the inducible because there might be variable behaviors and its hard to model.
  • Email ben and ask for code from last year.
  • Start modeling progress, promoters and outputs. Co-opt code that was written last year
  • Flow with Bar1 deleted yeast.
  • Find examples of Tcells that start out with slightly different inputs that strongly converge over time. Chaotic phenomenon.
  • look up Chaotic phenomenon in immune cells.

Weds 14/07/09

1) Transforming pTEF1 + rtTA (and mutants m6, m7, m10) into CB008+pTET+GFP and CB008DB+pTET+GFP. 8 Transformations. 2) Creating cultures of 5 CB008DB+AFRP+GFP strains for flow analysis on Thursday.

[Flow with CB008DB AFRP+GFP] https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymmlrcgm3zkoxr0/Flow%20with%20CB008DB%20AFRP%2BGFP.xlsx [pTEF+rtTA progress] https://www.dropbox.com/s/wilm904hbvosox6/pTEF%2BrtTA%20progress.xlsx

Thurs 14/07/10

Flow of CB008DB strains +AFRP+GFP

plate 1

    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------CB008DB-1------]
2       [--------CB008DB-2------]
3       [--------CB008DB-3------]
4       [--------CLG1-1---------]
5       [--------CLG1-2---------]
6       [--------CLG1-3---------]
7       [--------PRM2-1---------]
8       [--------PRM2-2---------]
9       [--------PRM2-3---------]
10      [--------PCL2-1---------]
11      [--------PCL2-2---------]
12      [--------PCL2-3---------]

Plate 2

    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------SAG1-1---------]
2       [--------SAG1-2---------]
3       [--------SAG1-3---------]
4       [--------AGA1-1---------]
5       [--------AGA1-2---------]
6       [--------AGA1-3---------]
7       
8       
9       
10      
11      
12      

Dilutions: 3 hour incubation with 100x dilutions in 2mL well plates. 9:35am -> 12:35pm

Added Alpha-factor. There are several possible mistakes when inducing. On 2-3 of the wells of the 100nm and 1000nm concentration, alpha factor was on the walls of the plate and may not have been added to the culture fully. Also, when using the multi-dispenser, the initial 10ul doesnt all fall off the tip, leaving residual liquid hanging. 12:50 -> 2:20pm

Alpha-Factor Concentrations

    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A   [-------------------{0 nM}-------------------]
B   [-------------------{0.5 nM}-----------------]
C   [-------------------{1 nM}-------------------]
D   [-------------------{10 nM}------------------]
E   [-------------------{100 nM}-----------------]
F   [-------------------{1000 nM}----------------]
G   [-------------------{3000 nM}----------------]
H

Fri 14/07/11

CB008DB AFRP+GFP Round 2 Plate 1of1

Glycerol stocks of YDR124W, PRM6, & ASG7 did not grow in SD complete media overnight. The cells may have settled before freezing.

3 Hour incubation plate

    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------CB008DB-1------]
2       [--------CB008DB-2------]
3       [--------CB008DB-3------]
4       
5       [--------PRM1-1---------]
6       [--------PRM1-2---------]
7       [--------PRM1-3---------]
8       [--------ECM18-1--------]
9       [--------ECM18-2--------]
10      [--------ECM18-3--------]
11      
12      

Incubated for an extra 25mins by accident. 9:30am -> 12:55pm

Added alpha-factor 1:05 -> 2:35PM

Flow Plate

    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [-------CB008DB-1-------]
2       [-------CB008DB-2-------]
3       [-------CB008DB-3-------]
4       [---------PRM1-1--------]
5       [---------PRM1-2--------]   
6       [---------PRM1-3--------]
7       [--------ECM18-1--------]
8       [--------ECM18-2--------]
9       [--------ECM18-3--------]   
10      
11      
12      

Concentrations of Alpha-Factor are the same.

Mon 14/07/14

Group Meeting at 1pm Until then, everyone was working on their powerpoints for the presentation.

~3:00pm Colony PCR of CB008/CB008DB (+Constitutive Promoters +rtTA) (+pTET +GFP) 3 colonies of each were patched and PCRed onto URA knockout plates.

PCR Reaction:
10ul 2x GoTaq Mix
3ul ddH2O
1ul FW primer 606V2 (primers check for chromosomal integration at the URA2 site)
1ul RV primer 606V2
5ul boiled Template in 20mM NaOH

PCR Protocol:
95ºC 5mins
95ºC 30secs  |
50ºC 30secs  | x30
72ºC 1min    |
4ºC  hold

Running colony PCR on a gel tomorrow.

Tues 14/07/15

1). Running 24 colony PCRs. Expected band size is 940bp.

Gel Photo: Colony PCR of pTEF1_rtTA URA integration + pTET_GFP both strains

2). 6 Strains worked, the two that didn't are CB008DB+pTEF1+rtTA and CB008DB+m10+rtTA

3). We are redoing colony PCR of those 2 strains that failed, each with 5 colonies each this time. Update: Second colony PCR did not work so we will be doing a third colony PCR

Gel Photo: Colony PCR of m10_rtTA URA integration +pTET_GFP CB008DB

4). Redoing Colony PCR for a third time, 5 colonies each again. This time we included 2 positive controls to check if the PCRs are at fault. If this doesn't work we will have to redo transformations for these two and we will most likely not run the DB strains on the flow tomorrow. Update: Colony PCR did not work. Gel Photo: Colony PCR of m10_rtTA URA integration +pTET_GFP CB008DB Try2

Flow Cytometry with CB008DB +AFRP+GFP 100x dilutions, 3 hour growth: 9:40am -> 12:40pm, alpha-factor induction 12:50 -> 2:20pm

plate 1

    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------CB008DB-1------]
2       [--------CB008DB-2------]
3       [--------CB008DB-3------]
4       [--------ASG7-1---------]
5       [--------ASG7-2---------]
6       [--------ASG7-3---------]
7       [--------YDR124W-1------]
8       [--------YDR124W-2------]
9       [--------YDR124W-3------]
10      [--------PRM6-1---------]
11      [--------PRM6-2---------]
12      [--------PRM6-3---------]

NOTE E3 & F3 had some weird clumping on the bottom of the well and somehow can't be resuspended, even with pipetting. A2 skipped, human error.

Wed 14/07/16

1). None of 13 Colonies chosen from m10 worked so today George did another 10 colony PCRs. Again, did not work so we need to retransform m10+rtTA into CB008DB+pTET+GFP. Gel Photo: Colony PCR of m10_rtTA URA integration +pTET_GFP CB008DB Try3

2). Flow plate maps today: Attenuating GFP with 12 concentrations of doxycycline Both strains with Constitutive Promoter+rtTA +pTET+GFP

Ianto made 100x diluted cultures in the morning Incubation 7:25am -> 10:25am Induction 11:17am -> 5:17pm

[Doxycycline]: 100 mg/ml stock or 100,000 ug/ml (in 100ul Aliquots) Induction time: 6hrs Concentrations needed for 100x:

0 ug/ml
3 ug/ml
6 ug/ml
9 ug/ml
30 ug/ml
60 ug/ml
90 ug/ml
300 ug/ml
600 ug/ml
900 ug/ml
3000 ug/ml
6000 ug/ml  

Dox Dilutions:

Stock: 100mg/mL 
**1x**           **100x**          Prep
60µg/mL       A: 6mg/mL            (6:100) 60µL of Stock in 940µL of water
30µg/mL       B: 3mg/mL            30µL of Stock in 970µL of water
9µg/mL        C: 900µg/mL          150µL of A in 850µL of water
6µg/mL        D: 600µg/mL          100µL of A in 900µL of water
3µg/mL        E: 300µg/mL          50µL of A in 950µL of water      Can also do 100ul of B in 900ul of water
0.9µg/mL      F: 90µg/mL           100µL of C in 900µL of water
0.6µg/mL      G: 60µg/mL           100µL of D in 900µL of water
0.3µg/mL      H: 30µg/mL           100µL of E in 900µL of water
0.09µg/mL     I: 9µg/mL            100µL of F in 900µL of water
0.06µg/mL     J: 6µg/mL            100µL of G in 900µL of water
0.03µg/mL     K: 3µg/mL            100µL of H in 900µL of water 

Doxycycline concentrations plate map:

        H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1                   [----0 µg/ml----]
2                   [---0.03 µg/ml--]
3                   [---0.06 µg/ml--]
4                   [---0.09 µg/ml--]
5                   [---0.3 µg/ml---]
6                   [---0.6 µg/ml---]
7                   [---0.9 µg/ml---]
8                   [---3.0 µg/ml---]
9                   [---6.0 µg/ml---]
10                  [---9.0 µg/ml---]
11                  [---30 µg/ml----]
12                  [---60 µg/ml----]

pTEF1 promoters

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [---------------[CB008 Control]--------------]  
B [---------------[CB008 pTET_GFP Control]-----]  
C [---------------[CB008 pTET_GFP pTEF1_rtTA]--]  
D [---------------[CB008 pTET_GFP pTEF1 m6]----]     
E [---------------[CB008 pTET_GFP pTEF1 m7]----]    
F [---------------[CB008 pTET_GFP pTEF1 m10]---]  
G
H

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [---------------[CB008DB Control]------------]  
B [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP Control]---]  
C [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 1of2 ] 
D [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 2of2 ]
E [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m6]--] 
F [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m7]--]             
G 
H

All wells ran its 10k events threshhold within seconds due to the amount of time they've been allowed to grow, 9 hrs.

3). Making cultures of CB008DB+pTET+GFP for tranformations of m10+rtTA tomorrow.

4). Yesterday's flow plate was contaminated and our data is very weird. (refer to Ianto's lab notebook on the same date) We will be redoing that experiment so today we should make more cultures for flow tomorrow.

Thu 14/07/17

Anusuya meeting: We should have everyone create a labnotebook/blog of what they do everyday so that we can keep track of everything. Background of T-cell signalling. Need good examples of what naturally happens. We need a specific thing we want to focus on and model for our project.

Read: 1). interaction between T-reg cells and T-helper cells. How T-reg with macrophages, their interaction represent some negative feedback. Macrophage somehow suppresses T-regs. 2). T-reg, dentridic cells. relates to neural. Stanford 2010, interaction btwn T-reg, T-helper, Th1-th2. 3). Topic of Neural information? microglia interaction? Might play a role in recruiting and regulating T-cells when there is injury to the brain.

1). Read some wiki and review papers, dont need data papers be able to understand whats going on with these interactions so that we have many examples where interactions play important roles.

2). Look from a non-immune viewpoint. There are interactions beyond the immune system so look into those and come up with examples. Perhaps we can build on the work from UCSF iGEM 2010.

3). COME UP WITH EXAMPLES, need an elavator pitch. Whats still unknown about these cell types? and how does this model we are making with yeast help us to understand whats going on. Specific termonology. Have some slides with these examples set up for the next meeting. Layout a rational.

4). Look up alpha factor diffusion rates. Delegate tasks for all of these points.

5). Have a point person for the medal requirements. Need someone to keep track of everything.

6). Maybe dedicate a 10min session to brief everyone about what has been done for the day and the end of every day. Have it written day and keep it in a text file for people to access.

7). Folders for all our files should be put into folders for the wiki. Update them! Intellecutal material, protocols, etc.

8). Create a library of motifs we've constructed and explain how its valuable. Find examples of them where they exist in the immune system.

Type 2 restriction sites. AAR1 BSA1

Modeling: Write code for both strains and their find out their output of alpha-factor. Then have both sets of code and add them together to see RFP output when those two cells are together.

factors to account for the model: diffusion constants, degredation rate, cell density (later)

Overnight cultures of CB008DB+pTET+GFP grew well. Continuing to tranform m10+rtTA. Diluted 20x at 9:45am -> 11:45am

Fri 14/07/18

  1. Transferred labnotebook to this textfile.
  2. Looked up examples related to our project
  3. Prepared for monday's group meeting
  4. Helped Robert with what he should be doing in the lab

Mon 14/07/21

100+ Colonies grew for our m10+rtTA transformations in CB008DB+pTET+GFP. We are now colony PCRing 10 colonies.

2-4pm group meeting

4 out of the 10 colony PCRs worked! m10+rtTA is now available for flow testing. Colony PCR m10+rtTA WORKED. URA integration

Everyone is assigned an article to read for an example related to our iGEM project. They were told to make slides of the signalling pathway if they could.

Tues 14/07/22

Made a streak plate of CB008DB+m10+rtTA+pTET+GFP from the patch plate.

100x dilutions done at 9:20am 9:20am -> 12:30pm Alpha-factor induction 12:47pm -> 2:17pm

Plate 1:

    H      G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1  pTEF1-1 [--------CB008DB-1------]
2  pTEF1-2 [--------CB008DB-2------]
3  pTEF1-3 [--------CB008DB-3------]
4  M7-1    [--------ASG7-1---------]
5  M7-2    [--------ASG7-2---------]
6  M7-3    [--------ASG7-3---------]
7          [--------YDR124W-1------]
8          [--------YDR124W-2------]
9          [--------YDR124W-3------]
10         [--------PRM6-1---------]
11         [--------PRM6-2---------]
12         [--------PRM6-3---------]

Plate 2:

    H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------AGA1-1---------]
2       [--------AGA1-2---------]
3       [--------AGA1-3---------]
4       [--------CLG1-1---------] did not grow as much as the others
5       [--------CLG1-2---------] 20ul instead of 10ul for CLG1
6       [--------CLG1-3---------]
7       [--------PRM2-1---------]
8       [--------PRM2-2---------]
9       [--------PRM2-3---------]
10      [--------PCL2-1---------]
11      [--------PCL2-2---------]
12      [--------PCL2-3---------]

Plate 3:

    H    G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1        [--------ECM18-1--------]
2        [--------ECM18-2--------]
3        [--------ECM18-3--------]
4        [--------SAG1-1---------]
5        [--------SAG1-2---------]
6        [--------SAG1-3---------]
7        
8         there is no PRM3 made. They're in glycerol stock.
9        
10       [--------PRM1-1---------]
11       [--------PRM1-2---------]
12       [--------PRM1-3---------]

Weds 14/07/23

Came up with more cards for Cards against humanity_UCSF iGEM

Working on the CRISPR paper, discussion. Research for what has been done with CRISPR delivery and how our work is valuable.

Thurs 14/07/24

Working on the CRISPR paper and the Explo Powerpoint.

Made cultures for glycerol stocks of 8 things:

1. CB008 +pTEF1+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
2. CB008 +m6+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
3. CB008 +m7+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
4. CB008 +m10+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
5. CB008DB +m6+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
6. CB008DB +m7+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
7. CB008DB +pTEF1+rtTA +pTET+GFP
8. CB008DB +m10+rtTA +pTET+GFP

7 & 8 need +pTET+mfalpha

In the coming days we will also transfrom everything with pAGA+mCherry.

Fri 14/07/25

Stuff to do other than lab:

  1. CRISPR paper. Read, Write
  2. Powerpoint for Explo due today
  3. Research for examples relating to the project
  4. Cards Against Humanity: UCSF_UCB iGEM 2014 (illustrator/InDesign)

Make glycerol stocks of:

1:50 dilutions of each and grow for 3 hours in 5ml cultures to .4 ~ .5 OD600. Then follow glycerol stock protocol.

9am -> 12pm growth to log phase

1. CB008 +pTEF1+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
2. CB008 +m6+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
3. CB008 +m7+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
4. CB008 +m10+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
5. CB008DB +m6+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
6. CB008DB +m7+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
7. CB008DB +pTEF1+rtTA +pTET+GFP
8. CB008DB +m10+rtTA +pTET+GFP

1:20 dilutions for transformations after 3 hours growth in 5ml cultures. Transforming pTET+mfalpha into #7,8 and pAGA+mCherry into #1-6.

9am -> 12pm growth to log phase

1. CB008 +pTEF1+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
2. CB008 +m6+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
3. CB008 +m7+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
4. CB008 +m10+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
5. CB008DB +m6+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
6. CB008DB +m7+rtTA +pTET+GFP +pTET+mfalpha
7. CB008DB +pTEF1+rtTA +pTET+GFP
8. CB008DB +m10+rtTA +pTET+GFP

~23 primers are coming in to clone AFRP upstream of BAR1 and Ste2 separately.

Note: 1. PCL2+mCherry in HY130 backbone is being constructed by Robert. We will probably make additional strains with this in place of pAGA+mCherry. 2. Jeffrey is working on getting m3+rtTA into CB008DB +pTET+GFP.

Mon 14/07/28

Last friday, Eleanor transformed mCherry into 6 strains with Constitutive Promoter, GFP, Alpha factor. Today I am colony PCRing them along with 3 other strains that have other things being integrated: 1) +rtTA for the m3s 2) +mfalpha for DB pTEF1 & m10. 14-07-28 Yeast Colony PCR1

Next steps: 1. Need to retransform DB m10 and CB008 m7 because they have no colonies. 2. Need to make glycerol stocks of the ones that worked for Colony PCR 3. For tomorrow, make cultures for tomorrow's flow (9 strains + control)

Auxotrophic marker Colony PCR primer names: His: FW RA145(#87) & REV RA146(#89) Trp: FW RA145(#87) & REV

Today I also worked on the Cards Against iGEM inDesign layout.

Tues 14/07/29

Flow scheduled for 5-8pm. Doing Consti+rtTA+pTET+GFP Dox run. No alpha, no RFP. Runnin all 5 DB strains today (and 4-5 CB008 strains tomorrow pending successful colony PCR of CB008 m3.)

Dilutions start 7:16am -> 10:16am Induction 10:45 -> 4:45pm

Dox concentrations are the same as last time.

All plates identical assortment:

Plate 1:

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [---------------[CB008DB]--------------------]  
B [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP]-----------]
C [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1]-----]
D [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m3]--]
E [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m6]--] 
F [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m7]--]             
G [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m10]-]
H

Plate 2:

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [---------------[CB008DB]--------------------]  
B [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP]-----------]  
C [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1]-----] 
D [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m3]--]
E [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m6]--] 
F [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m7]--]             
G [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m10]-]
H

Plate 3:

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [---------------[CB008DB]--------------------]  
B [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP]-----------]  
C [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1]-----] entire lane 10 is induced
D [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m3]--] with wrong concentration.
E [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m6]--] 
F [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m7]--]             
G [---------------[CB008DB pTET_GFP pTEF1 m10]-]
H

time course flow allows us to create a stocastic model of our products: rtTA, GFP, alpha-factor, RFP.

Colony PCR2 redo from yesterday because only 1 worked 14-07-29 Yeast Colony PCR2

Constitutive Promoter Constructs progress: 14-07-29_Consti construct progress Today George and I are retransforming:

  1. CB008DB+pTET+GFP+m3+rtTA[+pTET+mfalpha]
  2. CB008+pTET+GFP+m7+rtTA+pTET+mfalpha[+pAGA+mCherry]
  3. CB008+pTET+GFP+m10+rtTA+pTET+mfalpha[+pAGA+mCherry]

The salmon sperm boiled down to about 5ul for all 3 transformations. It also seemed a little viscous.

CB008+pTET+GFP+m10+rtTA+pTET+mfalpha[+pAGA+mCherry] already exists so our transformation of this (#3) was pointless. What we meant to do was CB008DB+m10+rtTA+pTET+GFP[+pTET+mfalpha]

After all our colony PCRs for the day, this is the update of the excell progress sheet: 14-07-29.2_Consti construct progress

Made cultures of all 10 things on the Consti list. 9 for transformations and 1 for glycerol stock.

Made cultures for tomorrows flow.

Weds 14/07/30

None of the cultures for today's flow grew. Only the controls grew. Looking back at the URA knock out patch plates that we inoculated from, they didn't grow very well. I think they moreso had a hard time growing than it not being correctly transformed because they came back positive in the colony PCRs (14/7/15). I transferred them onto a YPD patch plate to see if they would grow.

Derrick and I plated on YPD CB008/DB strains with pTET+GFP+consti+rtTA because the current patch plate on URA of CB008s does not have good growth. Cultures made from this patch plate did not grow either so holding out flow back.

Jeffrey and George are retransforming the ones that failed.

Thurs 14/07/31

Our steak plates of CB008/DB +pTET+GFP+Consti+rtTA over grew only on CB008DB. All the CB008s did not grow and have no sign of growth. This may mean that we will have to retransform consti+rtTA into our CB008 strains. So far, our glycerol stocks have not been working well for us; we don't know what the problem is.

Worked on the Explo powerpoint today.

Fri 14/08/01

Made streak plates with Derrick of everything we have so that we have fresh/organized cultures.

Worked on Cards Against iGEM InDesign. Printed and cut out our first deck for testing.

Mon - Weds 14/08/04-06

Out on vacation.

Thurs 14/08/07

Tomorrow we are running flow. Testing the final circuit with 5 strains. triplicate, 5 Dox concentrations (Shaved off 7 of the top concentrations of Dox), 4 time points.

Concentrations: 
0 ug/ml
0.03 ug/ml
0.06 ug/ml
0.09 ug/ml
0.6 ug/ml

Exploratorium After Dark event 6pm-10pm

Fri 14/08/08

OD600 of .1

Flow today with CB008 pTEF1+rtTA pTET+GFP pTET+MFalpha pAGA1+mCherry. Signed up from 4:30pm -> 9pm

Diluted 1:200 at 7:45am and grown for 2 hours

Time points with [Dox] induction: 0, 1.5hr, 3hr, 5hr

Plate map for all time points (4 plates):

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [CB008 m6-1]----]       [CB008 m10-3]----]
B [CB008 m6-2]----]       [CB008DB m7-1]---]
C [CB008 m6-3]----]       [CB008DB m7-2]---]
D [CB008 m7-1]----]       [CB008DB m7-3]---]
E [CB008 m7-2]----] 
F [CB008 m7-3]----]           
G [CB008 m10-1]---] 
H [CB008 m10-2]---]

[Dox] Concentration Map:

        H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------0 µg/ml------------]
2       [--------0.03 µg/ml---------]
3       [--------0.06 µg/ml---------]
4       [--------0.09 µg/ml---------]
5       [--------0.6 µg/ml----------]
6 
7       [--------0 µg/ml------------]
8       [--------0.03 µg/ml---------]
9       [--------0.06 µg/ml---------]
10      [--------0.09 µg/ml---------]
11      [--------0.6 µg/ml----------]
12                     

Flow notes: The first plate for time 0 contains the concentrations of doxycycline so we saw a bimodal RFP response. An explanation for this can be that the addition of doxycline had driven expression of mfalpha -> pAGA+mcherry before the cyclohexamide fixed the cells.

Finished flow at 9:40pm

Mon 14/08/11

Group Meeting at 10am -> 12pm

Flow with AFRP+rtTA +pTET+GFP 7 strains (Mon-Tues Flow), 7 alpha concentrations. 7 AFRP promoters+rtTA sucessfully transformed into CB008.

The AFRP strains that have successfully been transformed (7):

CB008 +CLG1+rtTA +pTET+GFP
CB008 +YDR124W+rtTA +pTET+GFP
CB008 +ASG7+rtTA +pTET+GFP
CB008 +HYM1+rtTA +pTET+GFP
CB008 +PRM1+rtTA +pTET+GFP
CB008 +PRM2+rtTA +pTET+GFP
CB008 +PRM3+rtTA +pTET+GFP

HYM1 plate, 0.6ug/ml & 0.06ug/ml concentrations were switched.

1:200 dilution grown for 2hrs 8:00am -> 10:00am induced at 10:30am Fix at 3:30pm Flow signed up from 4:30pm -> 9:00pm Finished flow at 8:40pm

Doxycycline concentrations plate map (12):

        H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1          [--------0 µg/ml----------]
2          [--------0.03 µg/ml-------]
3          [--------0.06 µg/ml-------]
4          [--------0.09 µg/ml-------]
5          [--------0.3 µg/ml--------]
6          [--------0.6 µg/ml--------]
7          [--------0.9 µg/ml--------]
8          [--------3.0 µg/ml--------]
9          [--------6.0 µg/ml--------]
10         [--------9.0 µg/ml--------]
11         [--------30 µg/ml---------]
12         [--------60 µg/ml---------]

Alpha-Factor Concentrations (7):

    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A   [-------------------{0 nM}------------]
B   [-------------------{0.5 nM-----------]
C   [-------------------{1 nM}------------]
D   [-------------------{10 nM}-----------]
E   [-------------------{100 nM}----------]
F   [-------------------{1000 nM}---------]
G   [-------------------{3000 nM}---------]
H

Plates:

Plate #1 (ASG7)
Plate #2 (CLG1)
Plate #3 (HYM1)
Plate #4 (YDR124W)

Play tested the printed Cards Against iGEM. Eliminated about 21 black cards. We have 24 good black cards, Goal 40-50.µ

Tues 14/08/12

Flow with the other 3 CB008 +AFRP+rtTA +pTET+GFP (PRM1, PRM2, PRM3) constructs. Signed up from 4pm -> 8pm.

1:200 dilution at 8:11am -> 10:11am

Same Dox and alpha-factor concentrations as yesterday.

Plate#1 (PRM1)
Plate#2 (PRM2)
Plate#3 (PRM3)

Helped Jessica with her progress with AFRP+rtTA constructs. Streaked out the 5 successful transformations of pTET_mfalpha for the CB008 (12-Aug) and made cultures of those for tranformations (+pAGA+mcherry/+pPCL2+mcherry/+pPCL2+BFP).

AFRP+rtTA progress chart: 14-08-12 AFRP+rtTA progress

Weds 14/08/13

1:200 dilutions, 2hr growth 7:50am -> 9:50am

Time points with [Dox] induction: 0, 1.5hr, 3hr, 5hr

Making Dox dilutions, follow this:

Stock: 100mg/mL 
**1x**           **100x**          Prep
60µg/mL       A: 6mg/mL            (6:100) 60µL of Stock in 940µL of water
30µg/mL       B: 3mg/mL            30µL of Stock in 970µL of water
9µg/mL        C: 900µg/mL          150µL of A in 850µL of water
6µg/mL        D: 600µg/mL          100µL of A in 900µL of water
3µg/mL        E: 300µg/mL          50µL of A in 950µL of water      Can also do 100ul of B in 900ul of water
0.9µg/mL      F: 90µg/mL           100µL of C in 900µL of water
0.6µg/mL      G: 60µg/mL           100µL of D in 900µL of water
0.3µg/mL      H: 30µg/mL           100µL of E in 900µL of water
0.09µg/mL     I: 9µg/mL            100µL of F in 900µL of water
0.06µg/mL     J: 6µg/mL            100µL of G in 900µL of water
0.03µg/mL     K: 3µg/mL            100µL of H in 900µL of water 

Plate map for all time points (4 plates):

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [CB008 pTEF1-1]-]       [CB008DB m3-3]---] 
B [CB008 pTEF1-2]-]       [CB008DB m6-1]---]
C [CB008 pTEF1-3]-]       [CB008DB m6-2]---]
D [CB008DB pTEF1-1]       [CB008DB m6-3]---]
E [CB008DB pTEF1-2]  
F [CB008DB pTEF1-3]           
G [CB008DB m3-1]--] 
H [CB008DB m3-2]--] 

[Dox] Concentration Map:

        H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------0 µg/ml------------]
2       [--------0.03 µg/ml---------]
3       [--------0.06 µg/ml---------]
4       [--------0.09 µg/ml---------]
5       [--------0.6 µg/ml----------]
6 
7       [--------0 µg/ml------------]
8       [--------0.03 µg/ml---------]
9       [--------0.06 µg/ml---------]
10      [--------0.09 µg/ml---------]
11      [--------0.6 µg/ml----------]
12                     

Deleted and exported files on the flow to prevent data crowding. (All files exported onto iGEM2 usb) Note: 140627 Alpha Factor Responsive Promoter 2 of 2 gives an error when exporting. "There are no tubes with data to export". Data may have been deleted? idk

Thurs 14/08/14

1:200 dilutions at 7:50 -> 9:50am

Time points with [Dox] induction: 0, 1.5hr, 3hr, 5hr, 8hr

Plate map for all time points (5 plates):

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
A [CB008 pTEF1-1]-]       [CB008 m7-3]-----]
B [CB008 pTEF1-2]-]       [CB008 m10-1]----]
C [CB008 pTEF1-3]-]       [CB008 m10-2]----]
D [CB008 m6-1]----]       [CB008 m10-3]----]
E [CB008 m6-2]----] 
F [CB008 m6-3]----]           
G [CB008 m7-1]----] 
H [CB008 m7-2]----]

[Dox] Concentration Map:

        H   G   F   E   D   C   B   A   
1       [--------0 µg/ml------------]
2       [--------0.03 µg/ml---------]
3       [--------0.06 µg/ml---------]
4       [--------0.09 µg/ml---------]
5       [--------0.6 µg/ml----------]
6 
7                       [--0 µg/ml--]
8                       [-0.03 µg/ml]
9                       [-0.06 µg/ml]
10                      [-0.09 µg/ml]
11                      [-0.6 µg/ml-]
12                     

In the 2ml culture plate, we noticed what seems to look like debri or contamination on the bottom of the wells from rows A,B,C. We tried to make the time point plates by pipetting everything singly.

After taking a look at the 0 time point plate through the flow, we can see that the size of molecules running through are not yeast but bacterial contamination. We need to totally redo this experiment again because this contamination gives us inaccurate data.

Yesterday, the 0 time point plate was not run all the way (only 10ul was run and there were not enough events). Derrick saved the plate and I will run 100uls of each of those wells. The wells are G,H (1-5), and A,B,C,D (7-11).

2pm -> 4pm Practiced presenting poster with the group and Anusuya.

Fri 14/08/15

Last official day of iGEM

All day event. Driving down to Santa Cruz for the Symposium held by UC Santa Cruz.

Sun 14/08/24

Made cultures of Contsti+full contruct + pPCL2+mCherry for Monday's flow (4).

pTEF1, m6, m7, m10