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Contents 1 Biobricks Revived 2 Lab Diary 2.1 Thu 12th July 2.2 Fri 13th July 2.3 Mon 16th July 2.4 Tue 17th July 2.5 Wed 18th July 2.6 Thu 19th July 2.7 Fri 20th July 2.8 Mon 23rd July 2.9 Tue 24th July 2.10 Wed 25th July

Biobricks Revived

This is a list of the biobricks we have revived from the registry

Brick	Description	Well	Used for
[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J04430 BBa_J04430]	IPTG induced GFP	Plate 2, 1L	Test biobrick revival process
[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_E0241 BBa_E0241]	PoPS --> GFP	Plate 2, 15L	For use in dif experement 1
[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J45700 BBa_J45700]	Wintergreen Scent	Plate 3, 7B	Place into lacto bacillus
[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_E0422 BBa_E0422]	fast degrading ECFP	Plate 1, 11G	For use in dif experement 1

Lab Diary

Thu 12th July

• IPTG induced GFP revived ([http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J04430 BBa_J04430])

Test biobrick revival process

Fri 13th July

• Alfalfa Seeds Planted (in Agar)

Growing alfalfa plants, to get leaves from which to extract DNA for the caffeic acid-3-o-methyltransferase gene (part of the vanillin synthesis pathway)

• Biobricks [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_E0241 BBa_E0241] and [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J45700 BBa_J45700] revived, using modified protocal from open wetware site

Mon 16th July

• Begin DNA extraction from Bamboo

Test DNA extraction process from plants

• Prepared mini preps for GFP and mint genes

Tue 17th July

• Alfalfa Transferred to compost

• DNA containing GFP and mint genes extracted from E.Coli

Wed 18th July

• Digest GFP and mint mini preps and ran on gel
• Biobrick ECFP [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_E0422 BBa_E0422] revived and transformed into E.coli JM109 competent cells

Thu 19th July

• Repeat digest of GFP and mint mini preps with more DNA
• Replate colonies of ECFP, 4 overnight cultures prepared for making DNA mini preps

Fri 20th July

• Prepared GFP and winter green biobricks for sequencing
• Revived Pseudamonas Fluorescens from freeze dried culture

Used to retrieve frs and ech genes in vanillin pathway

• Made 4 mini preps of ECFP

Mon 23rd July

• Ran gels for ECFP mini preps

Restriction digested using XbaI and PstI

Tue 24th July

• Annealed dif F & R oligoes, restriction digested with SacI & SpeI, ligated with BioBrick vector Edinbrick 1

Wed 25th July

• Transformed dif F & R DNA into E.coli, incubated at 37C overnight