Talk:The BioBricks Foundation:Standards/Technical/Measurement/Promoter characterization experiment (FACS)

LBL: Effects of Varying the Growth conditions on the Promoter characterization experiment

• Because of my poor planning, we made the following modifications to the procedure, resulting in relatively minor differences in the ratio of GFP intensities:
  • Culturing the strains
    • grew in LB + Kan overnight
    • grew at 37C shaking at 225 rpm
    • back diluted 1:1000 (instead of 1:100 doh!!) supplemented M9 media, and grew for 4 hours so OD600<0.1
  • Live Cell FACS Procedure
    • washed only once with PBS
• CAjoF 17:45, 5 March 2008 (EST)

MIT: Experimental details

• We only spun-down and resuspended 1ml of each sample in PBS.
• We also only did one wash with PBS, so I'm updating the protocol for future labs doing this -- since Caroline made the same choice :)
• Our PBS is from invitrogen and looks like it has a different formulation then what caroline listed in materials.

VTech:Experimental details

• Grew a single colony overnight and then split the culture into 3 tubes in the dilution in the morning, rather than starting 3 overnight cultures from 3 seperate colonies.