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Cultures & Lab Announcements

Professional Enrichment

  • The Association of Women in Sciences (AWIS)


Pressing Things TO DO!

Next Lab Meeting (3Apr09 @ 2:30pm)

  1. Updates on Sarah's culture stuff (i.e. Large flask status, backup tube status, incubator 2 stuff, backup backup racks)
  2. Discuss new labels for test tubes.
  3. Discuss Seawater.

Today (12May09)

Things that must be done today or tomorrow:

  • call SEJ or CC if you have any questions (if not at lab, then working from home)
  • Check new small flasks of RBS
    • RBS (6A) - Try to spin down on Monday and Friday.
    • 12Jun09 - Refresh 2 small flasks with the date of 17Apr09 and SD the other 4 flasks => next Monday (15Jun09) SD ALL RBS small flasks
      • Do not scrape. Just pour to avoid most of soil in spin down. Still do quick spin before starting normal spin down.
  • We will not spin down PLO or DIP until further notice.
  • Colorless Organism Refresh for 1Jul09:
    • refresh PLC and ENT (on colorless organism sheet - get transferred every 3 weeks)

Since our 4 degree broke, the organisms in our 4 degree have been moved to walk-on in room 257 and are sitting on top shelf on the shelves at the far end of the walk in

If not finished, the last person to leave should e-mail SEJ or CC what's left to be done (depending on who it's for).


Priority:

  • ZG - update UGA flasks sheet as to what we have in flasks...there were a bunch of small flasks at the bottom of incubator 4 that were completely dried down and never transferred to big flasks, so SEJ tossed these and they shouldn't be on the list now unless there are big flasks for them
  • Empty all tip/trash box(s)/containers on gel and molecular benches every Wed & FriDone BD 12Jun09
  • Wipe down all molecular work benches with the FIX 70% Ethanol squirt bottle every Wed & FriDone BD 12Jun09


Cultures:

  • JI & AI - work on eliminating backup backup racks in 2E
  • Check old flasks in 2E (5 large and 2 small). See if alive, still contaminated and with what they are contaminated. Post here on wiki. Done - CC; Only 3 alive; Checked tubes to see if alive or better than dead/contaminated flasks; Updated organism status in Culture Sheet; Made new flasks of contaminated EPE (tubes are dead); Need to SCI later 4/3/09
  • check flasks and spin down if ready... (don't forget the flasks in the #2 and #3 incubators)...switch over any of Sarah's in closed flasks into vented flasks

Caitlin- here are the organisms you set out for me to transfer to small flask today (12 Jun 09) TXG-->13Nov08-->XX UEA-->13Nov08-->X SUB-->NODATE-->XXXX MPI-->17APR09-->X TUH-->6MAR09-->X


Lab Assistants, Please Update Sarah/Christina On:

  • Updates for Sarah
    • list of all cultures I need in small flasks that have been started (any moved to big flasks yet?)
    • list of all cultures I need in small flasks that are contaminated (and preferably what they are contaminated with)
  • Updates for Christina


Notes for Sarah

  • Euglenozoa AToL

Are you a Lab Assistant with free time on your hands?

  • keep up with washing, drying and autoclaving the glass volumetric pipets so we don't run out (5, 10, 25mL)
  • put cotton in the tops of pasteur pipets and fill the containers (by the dishwashing station) and autoclave them
  • Make any media that needs to be made (generally AF-6 Medium, ESNW or Hay Infusion)
  • Autoclave media using the liquid cycle (be sure you label with autoclave tape)
  • Using sterile technique, add any additional ingredients to complete media post-autoclaving (eg. vitamins)
  • Wash test tubes, media containers and their respective caps (keep LIVE and FIX glassware separated)
  • Autoclave the test tubes, media containers, 9" pasteur pipets, pipet tip box(es), volumetric pipets, etc. in appropriate containers with containers underneath if available
  • Using sterile techniqe, add media to the autoclaved tubes or sterile culture flasks
  • Check and make notes of cultures without opening the tubes or culture flasks using the appropriate microscopes. Some cultures need to be checked daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly depending on their growth patterns.
  • Make transfers of healthy cultures (all culture information can be found on the Cumulative Culture Inventory.xls sheet on the Farmer Lab PC desktop)
    • tubes
    • big/small flasks
  • Spin down log phase cells in big culture flasks and rejuvenate with fresh media (aseptically)
  • Extract DNA from concentrated cells and update the DNA.xls sheet
  • Qualify/Quantify DNA on Nanodrop
  • Maintain molecular buffers, reagents
  • Maintain at least one carboy of DI water
  • Keep everything clean and organized
  • Ask if anyone in the lab needs anything done



Lab Binder & Notebook

Phylogenetics and Systematics of Euglenozoa

Documents



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