10:45 A – 12:30 A
- O/N confocal 10 um is a little too much buffer between first and last, several embryos didn’t make it all the way through. Try again tonight.
- Set up new O/N confocal run 6 um difference in initial frame, 60 frames to improve chance of getting everything.
Experimenting
- Psc, Pc, Su(Z), Pho with K4 and with K27 in EtOH. Then embedding into resin.
- Psc, Pc, Su(Z), Pho with HP1 rinsing out HP1 secondary in PBS. Then add WGA-488 1 hr. Then rinse out WGA 45 min 4 washes. post fix.
- Bcd, en-locus BH treat, and en-locus regular all in PBT after rinsing out O/N H3-750. Also WGA-488 treated 45 min 4 washes and post fix 1 hr.
- LB amp plates from cloning all lawns. Streak some cells to open spots on plate. Order beads for coating.
- Make up new LB amp and pick colonies from cloning.
Confocal testing
- Bcd hb-y(i) looks beautiful.
- Does have weak 647 nuclear dots (are these the ‘PcG bodies’?)
- Bmi antibody is mouse, works well in lightly fixed samples
- co-stained BMI with rb a-647, still has nuclear bodies. Might be this particular batch of antibody?
- Test sample of Psc K27 647 channel looks pretty weak, membranes don’t look good — degradation too short a fix?
- MeOH stored PcG proteins stains look strong, but no nuclear bodies. These may have been an artifact of one of the rb antibodies in short fixed embryos.
- original eng probe set does work: en-dnp, inv-dnp, E(Pc)-dig, tou-bio. dots not especially bright, bio channel and red channel backgroundry.
- Early sodium borohydride does not seem to have made obvious staining difference.
STORM
- Laser power issues: 750 max out at 80 mW, 647 max out at less than 50 mW.
- Graham fixes lasers, 750 now 90 mW, 647 now 100 mW.
- Imaging Psc and K27me3 in anterior cells at germ-band extension and germband rectraction phases.
Other
- Send review papers to XZ
- Send ACS paperwork to XZ