Team:Bio Without Borders/Notebook

Notebook

Week 1 (June 4-8)
•Made competent cells
Week 2 (June 11-15)
•Testing competent cells using iGem DNA transformation samples.
• Tested to see if they grew better on a freezer block versus an ice bath.
• Ran colony PCR and plated bacteria on antimicrobial plate.
• cPCR, chloramphenicol, and culturing protocols, made agarose gel
• gel electrophoresis for cPCR, nucleic acid purification plasmid
Week 3 (June 18-22)
•Made chloramphenicol LB plates
•Restriction enzyme digest of iGem plasmid PSB1C3 using EcoRI and PstI
•Made digest master mix; ran an ezyme digest of iGem plasmids PSB1A3 and PSB1K3 Performed ligation of
PSB1A3 and PSB1K3; transformed PSB1A3 in competent cells on ampicillin plate