Wednesday 11/02/11

9:30 A — 7:00P, 9:00P – 11:55P

  • Laser Safety Training 10A-11A
  • miniprep samples: toll, y-full, neu3, sxlA, sxl3, sxl1
  • Restriction mapping with EcoRI — incubating at 37C at 12:30P.
  • Expected fragmentation patterns:
    • Neu3: 2x 2.5kb frags + 3 kb Pgem
    • Toll: 1 kb and 4 kb frags
    • y: 3.3 kb and 1.4 kb frag
    • sxl A 5kb
    • sxl3: 2.5 and 500bp
    • sxl1: 1 kb
  • Shown here: toll, Neu3, ladder, sxlA, y, ladder, sxl3 sxl1
  • looks like sxl3 colonies got to sxl 1.  Not sure why these gels look so smeary.  Trying fresh reaction in 2% gel with fresh TEA.
Try alternate 2% gel, longer wells, 100 V, new EcoRI digest 2 hrs.
Straighter lanes.  Little improvement, gel ran 1.25 hrs.  Lower voltage thinner gel might be better for separating the thick bands.
Other Progress:
  • Make small fly plates.  Set up new fly cage of ~yw.
  • Review setting up DIC on Turnkey, need to collar the field for the appropriate objective with an open light path. — hexagon ring should be in focus and just wider than field of view.  Then insert polarizer at top, switch to position 5 the top filter above the condenser, remove eye-piece, adjust top polarizer to minimize light through open eye-piece, replace eyepiece, insert slider below filter wheel from right and slider from left.
  • Experiment planning: Test antibodies: H3K27, H3K4, PolII, short fix: hb, bcd
  • dissolve in 25 nmol of DNA primer in 0.250 mL of ddH2O to get 100 uM primer soln.  Use 1 uL straight for BioXact Taq.
  • Download data from Zeiss700 computer.
  • Discussion with Josh about imaging.
  • 2nd round review to do — started editing.

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