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Gel Electrophoresis Overview Gel electrophoresis separates DNA fragments based on size. Electric current moves the negatively charged DNA through the gel, which slows...

Reagent and Buffer Recipes General calculation resources Mass Molarity Calculator Solution Dilution Calculator Gel Electrophoresis 50 TAE (Tris Acetate...

RNA Structure Mutual Information Overview: What do these programs do? information between columns in a sequence alignment of structured RNAs can provide evidence...

WarningThese instructions and the associated scripts have not been tested with more modern versions of R / Perl / Matlab / etc. The procedure may require updates to...

16S rRNA Sequencing to Identify Unknown Microbes Ever wonder what that contaminant in your culture is? Need to accurately identify an environmental isolate? Overview...

Back to Golden Gate Protocols Troubleshooting Golden Gate Assemblies Tips Screen Inserts for internal BsaI/BsmBI sites! Reactions with single off target sites...

Back to Golden Gate Protocols Part Plasmid Assembly Once you have designed your part and either amplified with PCR or ordered the desired gBlock (as described here...

FLP Recombination in E. coli This procedure is commonly used to eliminate the Kanamycin resistance cassette from E. coli strains from the Keio collection or produced...

Sanger DNA Sequencing Go to the UT DNA Sequencing Facility website. This page explains the pricing for various orders and the methods by which samples should be prepared...

(Numbers are PCR product dilution with `10` representing a 1:10 dilution of your 0.01ng/ul PCR product prepped as described above) Template Material Use PCR...

Sensaphone Protocol The sensaphone is the alarm monitor connected to both of the 80C freezers in MBB. Below is an overview of the current settings and the expected...

Comparative Quantitative PCR (qPCR) Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is a tool routinely used for the quantitation of target nucleic acid sequences. If it is your first time...

Ordering Primers 1 Go to ICMB`s IDT webpage ICMB`s IDT page 1 Click Set up new Account tab on bottom left. 1 Fill out all of your information, including...

Sequencing/Genotyping Primer Design This protocol is specifically for designing primers to PCR amplify a target region of interest from a genome and re sequencing...

CFU Counts This is an outline for a general protocol to assess the number of colony forming units in a sample using spot plating. This method cuts down on the number...

Phage Lysate Preparation We have used this protocol with phages T4, T5, T6 and T7. The general procedure should work with most lytic E. coli phages (although lysis...

Phenol/chloroform extraction Extracting genomic bacterial DNA from pellet with phenol/chloroform with a combined EtOH precipitation step for salt/SDS/small nucleic...

C1 Condition 1, C2 Condition 2, and BR# Biological Replicate Conditions If you want to be extra safe you should also include a negative control (usually...

C1 Condition 1, C2 Condition 2, and BR# Biological Replicate Template Material Use cDNA dilution determined in cDNA Concentration qPCR Note: Once you...

(Numbers are cDNA dilution with `5` representing a 1:5 dilution and so on) Template Material The cDNA used for this is a pool of all your cDNA samples i.e....

Fluctuation Tests Introduction This protocol is for doing a Luria Delbr...

YPD Medium General media used for culturing Yeast. Adapted from spring harbor In 1 L bottle: 1L Component 20g Peptone 10 g Yeast Extract...

Supplementary Scripts and Data Files Mutation rate inferred from synonymous substitutions in a long term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli Wielgoss, et...

Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 Overview ADP1 Resources Genome Sequences type strain (GenBank Format) In general, use this genome as a reference when referring...

Bee Functional Genomics Using Engineered Symbionts Welcome to the temporary website for our new NSF EDGE project! Insects are among the most widespread and diverse...

Python snippets for biology Requires BioPython to be installed Open common formats: .gbk / .gbf / .gb import SeqIO with open(`/my/path/file.gb`,`r`) as file handle...

Calculating Growth Rates with Grofit The following are instructions for calculating growth rates using Grofit, an R package that is no longer supported by the current...

Back to Golden Gate Protocols Second Stage Assembly Second Stage assemblies are used to build plasmids out of multiple transcriptional units (Protocol found here...

Back to Golden Gate Protocols First Stage Plasmid (Transcriptional Unit) Assembly Once you have all your desired part plasmids built you can assemble them into Transcriptional...

Leafhopper Care and Protocols Rearing and Caring for Leafhopper Species Leafhopper species are kept in BugDorms (BugDorm 4F3030 and 4F2222). We have the following...

Major version notes Runs prior to February 2020 had a variety of formats and sample submission requirements. Suggested that individual runs be consulted on utbox for...

Problem to be addressed: You have a set of compressed files that all need to be extracted, and you don`t want to manually extract each one. Steps 1 create a new...

Gibson Assembly Background and Design Gibson Cloning is a technique of DNA construct assembly that allows one to join multiple linear segments into either one large...

Preparing Chemically Competent Cells using the CaCl2/Glycerol Method Re engineering the ribosome for efficient selenoprotein synthesis Ross Thyer, 2012 http://docplayer...

P1 Transduction in Escherichia coli This protocol is adapted from Thomason, L. C., Costantino, N. and Court, D. L. 2007. E. coli Genome Manipulation by P1 Transduction...

Electrocompetent E. coli Making Electrocompetent E. coli Cells (small batch) This procedure makes enough electrocompetent cells for 2 3 transformations. 1 Grow...

Checking Transformation Efficiency of Chemically Competent Cells Adapted from Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual 3rd Ed. , Sambrook and Russell (2001) SUPPLIES...

Isolating Phage Genomic DNA This protocol has been tested with phage T7. It has a double stranded genome that has a length of 40 kb. Materials 5...

Ethanol Precipitation Precipitating DNA/RNA from solution to remove salts and small nucleic acid fragments. Materials 3M Sodium Acetate, pH 5.2 (store at...

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Competence Assays This assay quantifies the ability of bacterial strains to uptake DNA in culture. The protocol below utilizes genomic DNA extracts obtained using...

`In plate` / solid medium transformation of Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 The following protocol is for single colony `in situ` (in plate) transformation with minimal...

RNAseq Library Preparation Use RNA from RNASnap and Zymo column purification as outlined on wiki. rRNA Depletion Use the Ribozero (RZ) rRNA Removal Kit (Gram negative...

Plasmid copy number determination Plasmid copy number is known to vary depending on origin of replication and culture conditions refs . Typically, plasmids are referred...

Generating Illumina Sequencing Libraries for transposons created in A. baylyi ADP1 with the pBT20 vector. This protocol prepares Illumina sequencing libraries from...

Accessing Journal Articles from Off Campus PubMed PubMed is often the best practice for biology researchers to find and discover publications related to biological...

Aphid Care and Protocols Rearing and Caring for Aphid Species Protocols and Primers

Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 Genome Manipulations Genome manipulations in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 can be performed without the need for exogenous recombinase expression...

Determining Phage Titer Phage Titering is a procedure used to quantify the density of plaque forming units (PFU, analogous to a bacterial culture...