Gel Electrophoresis Overview Gel electrophoresis separates DNA fragments based on size. Electric current moves the negatively charged DNA through the gel, which slows...
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Mapping Purpose: To validate mutations predicted from whole genome re sequencing and possibly discover rearrangements through repetitive...
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...
Population Genetics Long Term Daily Procedure Supplies 1 13 x 50 ml flasks filled with 9.9 ml of DM500 (DM0 supplemented with 0.05% glucose). 1 12 x tetrazolium...
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis Our gel rigs and supplies are from Scientific. The Diagnostics Website has very helpful background on RNA/DNA polyacrylamide gels...
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...
Petri Dish Patch Templates The Full Template is for patching as many colonies as possible per petri plate. The 96 Well Format is for patching 48 colonies per plate...
Overlap PCR Background Before attempting this somewhat advanced PCR technique, be sure to read the PCR protocol and check out a reference describing PCR theory...
Strains Deleterious Mutations (UV Mutation Accumulation) Strain Fitness Ara relative to REL607 Marker Fitness Ara relative to Ara #8211; Designation...
Co culture Competition Assays The instructions below include the basic protocol. Be sure to check whether there are variations needed for your specific samples! For...
Major version notes This is a protocol based on Kapa LTP Preparation Kit manual KR0453 v3.13 The main difference centers around the use of 1/2 volume in each reaction...
Genome Minimization Growth / Death Assays In order to be able to compare parameters uniformly between evolved and ancestor strains, all growth in these tests is done...
Gene Gorging Evolved Alleles This procedure can be used to directly create unmarked mutations in the E. coli genome. Transform Gene Gorging and Donor Plasmid...
Profiling Ribose Operon Deletions Day 1: Search strain databank for desired population. 1. Login to lab website, open lab databases. 1. Search under `strains...
Evolution Experiments Introduction An evolution experiment typically consists of evolving one or more ancestor strains in laboratory culture and assessing the types...
ELUTION of OLIGOS FROM PAGE GEL Crush Soak Eluting DNA/RNA from PAGE or denaturing PAGE Materials Crush Soak Buffer (CSB) 200mM NaCl , 10 mM tris HCl (pH 7....
Competence Assays This assay quantifies the ability of bacterial strains to uptake DNA in culture. The protocol below utilizes genomic DNA extracts obtained using...
Changing Environment Long Term General Procedures Inoculating Tubes To start an experiment, obtain 98 test tubes. Split the test tubes into two racks, 49 in each...
Mutation Rates from Genome Resequencing Motivation: You have re sequenced several genomes after a mutation accumulation or adaptive evolution experiment. How do...
ASKA Collection Evolution Experiment Starting Lines 1 Revive each strain by inoculating a scrape of frozen culture from a well of a microplate into 3 ml of 0.1x...
Using Emulsions to Select by Yield Background Evolution in suspension culture proceeds by selecting for those strains that grow most rapidly, quickly depleting the...
Using the Deep 96 Well Pin Tool The 96 well pin tool can be used to transfer long term evolution experiments and to make dilutions when plating many samples. Although...
The Checklist for Plating Competitions Before plating, it is important to transfer and mix correctly from the competition plates. The following are guidelines...
The Checklist for Plating Competitions Before plating, it is important to transfer and mix correctly from the competition plates. The following are guidelines...
Packaging a Tool for Release You need these environmental variables set to work with the current CVS setup: export CVSROOT `:ext:local@barricklab.org:/bliss/cvs` export...
Lambda Red Protocol Lambda Red Plasmids These plasmids are available as part of the Lambda Red disruption kit from the E. coli Genetic Stock Center. pKD...
Allelic exchange using pKOV or pKOV style vectors Before beginning part 1: design primers 1 Insert should be ~1kb with approximately 500bp on either side of mutation...
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...
Bacterial Mutation Accumulation Experiments Background Mutation accumulation (MA) experiments involve periodically bottlenecking a population such that evolution...
(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...
Custom Primer Design Overview While there are tools available for automatically designing primers (such as the Primer BLAST) often specialized PCR applications, such...
Barrick Lab :: Previous Research Leafhoppers: Evolution and Biochemistry of Natural Nanoparticles Leafhopper and SEM image of brochosomes on its wing Leafhoppers...
Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Barrick Lab Earliest Start Date: June 2011 Status: OPEN Posted March, 16, 2011 A position is open for a postdoctoral...
Phenol/chloroform extraction Extracting genomic bacterial DNA from pellet with phenol/chloroform with a combined EtOH precipitation step for salt/SDS/small nucleic...
Past Barrick Lab Members Cameron Roots Jeffrey Chuong Kadena Cope Sophia Lin Olivia Soto Jack Dwenger Elizabeth Manriquez Dan Deathrage Victor Li Matt McGuffie Laurel...
Back to Golden Gate Protocols Old Golden Gate Assembly Protocols This page contains a collection of old protocols for Golden Gate Assembly. All these protocols should...
Barrick Lab :: News Archive August 2014: Graduate student Michael Hammerling is awarded a UT Graduate School Named Continuing Fellowship. April 2014: Graduate...
Microplate Reader Quick Start Best Practices 1 Follow typical best practice for experimental design. Utilize technical replicates from the same biological sample...
Megaprimer whole plasmid cloning aka MEGAWHOP cloning aka Overlap Extension PCR cloning We describe two approaches to MEGAWHOP in this protocol page. Approach...