Janet B. Matsen:Open Lab Questions
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These questions are "open" to me, not necessarily the scientific community. If you have insights or can point me toward references relevant to them, please do!
Open Questions
- What causes an overloaded colony PCR reaction to fail?
- How does plasmid copy number get affected by oxygen availability? Cellular media?
- I have noticed that LB often gives me orders of magnitude lower plasmid yields and that growing cultures with liquid:air volumes higher than 1:5 is not good.
- How do I decide whether to gel purify after digestions (before ligations)?
- The BioBrick/Ginkgo manual doesn't instruct you to. Besty always does.
- How does colony density affect colony size?
colony size varies with colony density - I observe that when there is a large number of colonies per area on an agar plate, that the colonies are smaller. I have thought about the possibility of diffusion-limited arrival of nutrients, however, one would expect to see larger colonies on the outside of the cluster if this is the case.
- Why do apples make people burp? (posted 5/23/2012)
