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7/07/2014 - Garrett Jensen.
- Today I looked around for the M17 media that supposedly was delivered 2 weeks ago. Brother Lee and Dr. Robison both said that it was not in their lab but they are the only ones who signed out a package from Fischer Scientific 2 weeks ago.

July 7th Michael Linzey
Redo PCR
- I realized that I was using the wrong primers for the PCR to check in my spacer was in the region I was trying to do
- I got the primers that I ordered on the 30th
- I set up the PCR
o I used a Taq polymerase because our red Taq is not working really well
- Let the reaction go over night
- I also prepared a gel for gel electrophoresis

7/09/2014 - Garrett Jensen.
- Today I ran a PCR on the DNA that Skip isolated from S. thermophilus on June 26 using the universal 16S ribosomal primers. I used taq polymerase instead of Redtaq because the redtaq has been having some issues lately. If there is microbial DNA present then we may be able to get PCR for the CRISPR to work from it. In the meantime I am waiting for our M17 media to show up.

July 9th Michael Linzey
Came in to check to see if it worked
- I ran the 8 PCR products in the gel that I had prepared
- Used a blacklight to see if I got anything
o There was definitely PCR product
o Talked to Dr. Grose and she said that it looked good
- Prepared an overnight for the two darkest bands, lane 2 and 3

7/10/2014 - Garrett Jensen.
- I ran out that PCR on a gel and there was a Band!!!! That means that there is good DNA present. I started a PCR reaction using taq polymerase and our Crispr primers to see if I can get a product for the CRISPR system. If I can then I will set it up again with phusion. We still have not received the m17 media however.

July 10th Michael Linzey Used a DNA prep kit to extract my plasmid from the DNA
- Same protocol that I have followed before
- Just followed the kit

July 14th Michael Linzey
Prepared my samples of DNA to get sequenced to make sure that the T7 spacer that we designed was there
We also helped move our lab to a new life science building

7/16/2014 - Garrett Jensen.
- On monday (7/14/2014) we moved our lab to the new life sciences building and were not able to do any work.
- I ran out the PCR attempt to amplify the CRISPR from the LMD-9 DNA that Skip made but no bands were visible.
- After talking with Dr. Grose and Desi we decided to cancel our order of the M17 media. It apparently was back ordered but the company sent a shipping document anyways. We have all the materials to make M17 media except for beef extract. Desi found a place to order it from for pretty cheap and sent the information to Dr. Grose. We were able to find ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in Dr. O'Neil's lab. Once the beef extract comes in I can grow LMD-9 and purify its DNA.

July 17th michael Linzey
Helped Mike Abboud with the Sewing PCR
- We took his successful PCR product of the sewing PCR for N. Multiformis and used a cleaning kit on it to purify it
- We also prepared a low melt gel to extract just the DNA from the sample

7/18/2014 Garrett Jensen.
- Today the M17 agar Dr. Grose ordered a while back arrived. I poured several plates and let them cool so that I could plate our LMD-9 and let it incubate over the weekend.
- Using one of our freezer stocks from the last time we attempted to grow up LMD-9 I pippetted 200 microliters onto 4 separate plates and streaked with a loop. I have them growing in the phage hunters lab incubator at 42 C. To prevent the plates from drying out I parafilmed all but a small section of the plate so that oxygen can still get in. I also placed several beakers of water in the incubator to add some humidity to the air.

7/21/2014 Garrett Jensen.
- Today I checked my plates that were incubating over the weekend and I had 4 that had colonies on them!!!! That was exciting.
- I picked two colonies off of my plates and streaked them out on a fresh M17 plate in a patch so that I can get enough bacteria to do a genomic DNA prep from
- I put them in the phage hunters incubator using the same circumstances as the last entry for me. They should grow up in the next 24-48 hrs.
- Mike and I ran a low melt gel of our plasmid for the T7 spacer and extracted the DNA. On wednesday we will do the ligation and insert the T7 spacer into it and then transform it into E. coli for testing.
- On wednesday we will also do a genomic DNA prep from our LMD-9 and try a PCR for our CRISPR system!

July 21 Michael Linzey
- Desi gave me the results for the sequencing of the T7 spacer
- I ran the results using a blast against what it should have been, there were no matches
- I think this was because I dropped the tube with the DNA and some got on the sides, this prevented a good mixing of the primers with the DNA that hopefully contains the insert.

July 23 Michael Linzey
- Mike Abboud was not able to come to class so I took his sewing PCR product and a cut plasmid and ligated them together
- First I needed to melt the low melt gel using a water bath(I think out bath is broken because it took forever)
- Then we add 3 microliters of each gel to the master mix (water and ligase buffer)
- Final step is to add the ligase
- I had to leave so Garret transformed the plasmid into E Coli and grew it up on an Ampicillin plate

July 25 Michael Linzey
- There was no growth
- This is my fault because I incubated the ligase reaction at 35 C for a while, I should not have done that
- So I am ligating the cut plasmid and the pcr product together for a second time
- Then I transformed the plasmid into E Coli and plated it