To Do
- We are running low on tips and tubes, so I need to autoclave some today and tomorrow before I leave
Autoclaving
- Doing the rest of the yellow tips in the red boxes
- Also showing Brian how to use the Autoclave
Things that I dont want to fall into obscurity
- Koch mentioned that I should make sure any work I have done does not get forgotten
- I'm pretty sure I have documented all the work I've done
- Here's a list of things that are useful to the lab that I may not want to die:
- Inventory Stuff
- Profiling laser beams? (it is a bit of an archaic method, but it works on a budget)
- The laser stuff is all on the private wiki, might be a good idea to have it transferred to the public
Inventory'n
Tubulin
- Andy, Brigette and I resuspended some Rhodamine Tubulin today (made 4 aliquots) 1ul in ea aliquot (5mg/ml)
- We then took 1 aliquot of RT and then added it to an aliquot of unlabeled tubulin
- We have 6, 1ul aliquots that are 15% RT
- I went ahead and polymerized one of the mixed aliquots and we created motility soln
- Andy tried a motility assay, but it failed
- Brigette and I forgot to add Dextrose to the motility soln and the MT's became "kinked"
- Retrying with dextrose now added
- Note: The 15% RT is enough to see, which is good
- Success! We got to see motility and the MT's are really long and easy to see
- They are moving quite fast and the AF is working great
- No camera (in tweezers lab) so no photo/video footage. Hopefully it works again tomorrow and Andy can bring over the cam
- Andy Maloney 23:22, 27 August 2009 (EDT): I'm glad to hear it worked. Did you guys change out the ATP to get it to work or did you use the same stuff?
- Steve Koch 23:48, 27 August 2009 (EDT): Awesome! Glad to hear about motility. I think we'll have a camera soon?
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