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Lab notebooks

February - March

  • Project selection
  • Scientific discussuions
  • Initial planning

April

  • Lab selection
  • Cloning scheme design
  • Ordering of the compounds, oligos, PCR primers and other DNA fragments

May

  • Introduction to the lab
  • PCR amplification of required fragments
  • Cloning of the level 0 plasmids
  • Editing of the backbones available in the lab (e.g.inversions)
  • Target selection

June

  • Cloning most level 1 plasmids
  • Cloning optimisation for golden gate
  • Creation of promoter and RBS libraries for the genes required for the plasmid based EcORep system
  • Design of the fluorescence based bridge recombinase efficiency assay
  • Design of the DML library of IS622 variants

July

  • Deletion of the csg operon in Marionette-Clo E. Coli strain to obtain SEM6 E.Coli, a strain that will be used for further transformations in course of the project
  • Fluorescence based efficiency assay (GFP-mScarlet inversion, GFP insertion) to determine the initial efficiency of bridge recombinases towards selected target and donor sequences

August

  • DML variant preparation
  • Illumina sequencing
  • Preliminary design of the selection plasmid antibiotic-based functionality assay
  • Phage cloning

September

  • Plating assay to determine the functionality of the designed selection plasmid
  • Report preparation
  • Phage propagation assay

October

  • Presentation preparation
  • Team Wiki creation
  • Poster design