Tag: LB agar

As i expected pALA1029 pOG04 DRW and pOG4003…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

As i expected, pALA1029, pOG04 DRW and pOG4003 have once again shown no growth, almost in sympathy the serial dilution i performed yesterday yielded poor results. The spread plates only showed colony growths of 1-14, as i was looking for colonies around 100, i decided that it was not worth replica plating. I have still carried out a serial dilution from the overnight broth cultures and spread plated them onto LB agar plates and left them to incubate at 37C overnight. I do not expect any growth based on todays results but one can hope!

Another frustrating day in the lab Grew pNC0412B…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Another frustrating day in the lab!!
Grew pNC0412B to an OD of 1 then performed a serial dilution (A,B,C,D -1to-5.5), I innoculated a fresh 10ml LB broth with 100 microlitres from dilution -4 and placed into the 37C shaker overnight. I then spread plated 100 microlitres from dilution -5 onto a fresh LB agar plate, I also spread plated 100 microlitres from dilution -5.5 onto a fresh LB agar plate, then placed these into the 37C incubator overnight. I would have also done this for pOG04 NJC but it refused to grow, after 6 hours in the 37C shaker only an OD of 0.01 was achieved, i abandoned this set of broths. The plates i hoped to grow for today containing the plasmids pALA1029, pOG4003 and pOG04 DRW also showed no growth. I have tried again today so hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. I seriously think C2110 is the work of the devil!

Hi all counted yesterdays plates and replica plated…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Hi all,
counted yesterdays plates and replica plated pOG4 onto LB and LB containing amp100, then i counted and replica plated pnc0412B onto LB and LB containing chl20, then i incubated them overnight at 37C. My next task was to complete the second serial dilution and spread plated 10-5.5 and 10-6 onto LB agar plates with no antibiotics. Next i checked on pOG04NJC and pnc0412B – NO GROWTH!!! I am sure they know its monday! Having Checked with Ross williams he thinks it could be the plasmid at fault. Tomorrow i try again.

Today has been an almost perfect day in…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Today has been an almost perfect day in the lab.
pOG4 and pNC0412B have grown quite nicely to an OD of 1 (0.8-1), I have performed a serial dilution on both and left the innoculated broths overnight in the shaker at 37C, the spread plates of 5 & 5.5 are in the 37C incubator. Also today i innoculated another flask of LB broth with C2110 and grew to an OD of 0.35. Then i carried out cell competancy then transformed them, using the plasmids pOG04 NJC and pNC0412B. I spread plated pOG04NJC onto an LB agar plate containing amp50 and spread plated pNC0412B onto an LB agar plated containing chl10. these were then placed in the 37C incubator overnight. Busy day tomorrow as agars, broths, velvets and NaCl need to be made-up/autoclaved, as well as tomorrows tasks. Early start i think!

Groundhog day Today is still Monday no overnight…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Groundhog day!!!!
Today is still Monday, no overnight growth again. Think C2110 is mocking me. I have repeated everything once again but i have tried to trouble shoot as to why nothing is working. Once i made thre cells competant i plated a sample onto LB agar plate and a sample onto LB agar with amp50. Then i continued on to the transformation stage, i then plated a sample onto LB agar plate and onto LB amp50 agar plate. I have also restreaked a fresh nutrient plate with C2110. Hopefully things will grow overnight, if not maybe i can work out at what stage things are going wrong.

Hey all Yesterday i took the overnight broths…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Hey all,
Yesterday i took the overnight broths for the two plasmids and completed another dilution series and spread plated the ones from -5.5 and -6. I incubated these at 37C overnight. Then i took out the T0 plates and counted the colonies, the ones that were around 100 i replica plated them onto an LB amp100 agar plate and then olnto an LB agar plate. These were then incubated overnight at 37C.
Today started out with me making more LB agar and LBamp100 agar plates, and making up 3x50ml LB broth, ready for monday morning. Then i autoclaved my velvets ready for next week. Once this was completed the science could start. I counted Tend plates and replica plated the ones with around 100 colonies, same as yesterday i replica plated 1x LBamp100 and 1xLB agar. The last job of the day was to count the colonies from yesterdays replica plating and record them. I also re streaked my C2110 so that i will be working with a fresh culture on monday.

Hey Started the day by making 400ml of…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Hey,
Started the day by making 400ml of LB agar and 200ml with AMP100 and 500ml of LB broth. Then i counted the T0 replica plates i did yesterday. Next i counted yesterdays T end plates and chose the ones with approx. 100 colonies and replica plated them onto LB agar and LB agar with AMP100. Then went to the presentation for poster presentation and project write up. Then i streaked a fresh LB agar plate with C2110 colony and then another LB agar plate with DH5alpha (for Rosie) and incubated them at 37C overnight, so that we have fresh colonies to work with next week. Nicola gave me my plasmids, popped them in the fridge. Nearly all prepped for next week. Also managed to make up stabs and slopes of E.coli e0791 that i brothed up yesterday. Also BIG thanks to Dan for his anthropology presentation and showing me the difference between boys and girls (on the skeletons). Very interesting seeing the ossicles and learning how to age and sex the bones.

Hi Started the day Gram staining E coli…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Hi,
Started the day Gram staining E.coli a strain i dont have, this is another cultue confirmed so i then made a broth which i am incubating overnight at 37C. Spent most of the day waiting for cells to grow to an OD of 1, though 0.8 – 1.5 would be within range. Nicola went through serial dilution with me and showed me how to do the first set, i then completed the following three, broth culturing -4 dilution and spread plating -5 and -5.5 dilutions onto LB agar plates and incubated them overnight at 37C. Hopefully tomorrow we will have enough growth to count colonies (100 would be nice) then we can do replica plating. Had another Mike Shaw masterclass and debate (loving lab life xx).

Hi all Interesting day today the broths i…

Deborah / / Uncategorized

Hi all,
Interesting day today, the broths i innoculated friday were ready today so i made them into stabs and slopes. Finally my workspace is clearing, made up a few more bijou jars ready for the end of the week when i can hopefully add Enterobacter spp and Citrobacter spp to my completed list. I then went through the cell competency procedure with Nicola and she assaulted my brain with maths (hate maths mondays), we then went over plasmid stability and what we were to achive this week. in preparation we made up 400ml LB agar, 400ml LB agar with chl10, 200ml LB agar with Ampicillin 100 and 200ml LB agar with Ampicillin 50. Tomorrow serial dilution!