Megaprimer whole plasmid cloning aka MEGAWHOP cloning aka Overlap Extension PCR cloning We describe two approaches to MEGAWHOP in this protocol page. Approach...
Bioinformatics Master List This page is a master list of bioinformatics software frequently used in the lab, and their purposes. It also includes additional notes...
Liquid Nitrogen, Dry Ice, CO2 The dry ice and liquid nitrogen are contained in room 1.122. Follow the instructions on the computer in 1.122 to log quantity of dry...
Barrick Lab :: Links Advice for graduate students (Saw this linked by Cooper) for Young Scientists (Andrew Hendry) Serial Mentor (Claus Wilke`s Blog...
Lab Notebook Best Practices Notebook Setup Preferred Platform: Benchling Electronic Notebooks Have an administrator add you to the Barrick Lab organization on Benchling...
Interested in research in the Barrick lab? We are always looking for outstanding undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs who are interested in experimental...
Introduction to Experimental Design Motivation Whether for just a summer or for the duration of an entire Ph.D project, working on a scientific problem is a process...
Handling High Molecular Weight DNA Introduction Long read sequencing, such as Oxford Nanopore or PacBio sequencing, is becoming increasingly important for genome...
Golden Gate Assembly This page serves as the main repository for everything Golden Gate Assembly related. This page links to a number of protocol pages that will...
Golden Gate Assembly Golden Gate Assembly is a cloning method used to recombine multiple DNA components into a single linear piece or plasmid. It bears similarity...
Generating Overhangs If generating overhangs for Golden Gate Assembly outside of YTK/BTK framework, NEB`s GETSET tool can be useful for generating a set of high fidelity...
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...
Former Front Page Images Genome dynamics in experimental evolution Read article at NRG Flying Spaghetti Monster meet syntheticbiology? Caffeine addicted E. coliSupport...
Fortessa Flow Cytometry The Fortessa is a shared resource through the microscopy core. If you want to use it you need to get access to it you should flow the...
General guidelines for sorting bacteria with fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) FACS is a powerful tool for high throughput analysis and manipulation of complex...
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...
Erratum for Woods et al. Science 2011 R. J. Woods, J. E. Barrick, T. F. Cooper, U. Shrestha, M. R. Kauth, and R. E. Lenski, Science 331 :1433 (2011). The main...
Contacts Campus Resources The following services may be able to help fix anything from a Faulty Freezer to a Questionable Qubit. Facilities. Have refrigerator and...
Isolation of dsRNA from bacteria Materials and Reagents This protocol can be used to validate expression of dsRNA in E. coli (e.g. E.coli HT115(DE3)) or in other...
Denaturing Formaldehyde Gels for Verifying RNA size RNA can be sized correctly on an agarose gel. However, it needs to be denatured and then remain denatured during...
DNA Concentration Determination For many applications in cloning and genome editing, it is critical to accurately measure the concentration of DNA in a sample. This...
Copying files to/from UT Box at the command line If you use SSO (through UT Box), you need to first up an external password. You will need LFTP installed on your system...
Coding 101: Best Practices for Writing Software Build Your Development Suite To code effectively, you need an appropriate development setup. We recommend at least...
(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....
Bee Microbiome Toolkit The Bee Microbiome Toolkit (BTK) is a Golden Gate compatible toolkit of genetic parts designed for working with newly isolated, non model bacteria...
Installing breseq on TACC Ranger Set up modules There seem to be compiler bugs with later versions of GCC and mixing Boost compiled with those later versions of...
Breseq Developer Notes In addition to the normal prerequisites for breseq , you will also need updated versions of these tools to work on breseq development. On...
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...
Bacterial Genetic Code (NCBI Translation Table 11) AAs FFLLSSSSYY CC WLLLLPPPPHHQQRRRRIIIMTTTTNNKKSSRRVVVVAAAADDEEGGGG Starts M M MMMM M Base1 TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCCCCCCCCC...
Measuring the Rate of Attrition in Frozen or Cooled Samples Plates stored at 4C 1. Day 1: Inoculate strain in approximately 5mL of LB in shaking incubator at 30C...
Assembly Reactions Under Construction Protocols from NEB and https://www.neb.com/protocols/2020/01/15/golden gate assembly protocol for using neb golden gate assembly...
Generating Illumina Sequencing Libraries for transposons created in A. baylyi ADP1 with the pBT20 vector. This protocol prepares Illumina sequencing libraries from...