Tuesday 01/08/13

10:00A – 10:30P

(8:30-10A lab exercise/training)

Bistability

  • First draft of deterministic model figure and corresponding text
  • Trying to figure out correct integral to compute an energy surface from the vector field.  Not working so far.

Fly work

  • collect virgins:
    • (now have 4 vials of sim[D] and Espl[D], should be enough for 2x females a piece to cross for complimentation testing).
    • 1 new cross of DB hb-LacZ
    • 3 new crosses of Esc[6]/CyO x Sp/CyO
  • new YW collection cage, low number of flies, hopefully works out alright.

Communication

  • Contact Ajaz about concavlin A protocol
  • should hear from Stas on Monday about review
  • Contact Carl about issues with divergence for vector field of bistable system
  • Need to integrate vector field

PCR of 500 kb probe from 3R.  Freezing O/N to precipitate.

Cell culture protein DNA multiplex:

  • Goals
    • HP1 centromere multiplex
    • evaluate 750 stain and test new 750 approach
    • compare protein first + post-fix (short and longer PFA/GA treatment) to
      DFISH first then protein, no post-fix (less background?)
  • Coating coverslips with polyL-lysine from Eileen (30 min, under UV light).  Warming up culture media.
  • Fix (15 min 5% PFA), 2x PBT rinse, 15 min NaBoH (in ddH2O) treat.  Block 45 min
  • left half of wells abcam m-H3K9me2, right half in m-HP1 (new aliquot) at 1:200 dilution of 4C stock
  • O/N incubation in PBT wash
  • O/N incubation of chamber 2 in FISH probes:
  • Cy5-AACAC
  • Cy5-AATAT
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