Sortostat/Notebook

Experiments

• Sortostat/Experiments/Two reactor chip

Future Experiments

replace bulb before these experiments

• check on pH of the media if we are adding AHL, it needs to be <8 for AHL to be stable.
• Zig-zag run where we vary from 0.4 to 0.6 so that we can get more sampling of the selective pressure.
• Maintenance of a slower growing variant vs. a faster growing "mutant".
  • Could demonstrate this with a slower growing CFP vs YFP or via something like F2620.
• Zig-zag experiment with different dilution rate (e.g. different total number of cells).
• Get the exact size of sorting chamber by cell counting
• F2620 is in MG1655 whose flagella might cause a problem
  • Need to co-transform with RFP expression plasmid anyway.
• We already have the zig-zag automated, but should include a "pulse" as well (e.g. /-\_/-\) where it has regions with no selection.

Modeling

• Sortostat/Model
• How much faster can we drive it given the timing?
• Are there more or less cells in a sort vs a screen?
  • No, looked at this before last lab meeting, but should write it up.
• Do fluctuations in the total cell count correlate with anything?
• 2/18/06 lab notebook page has some information about the appropriate sorting volume to use in the model, move this to the wiki

Output

• Sortostat mFiles doc - list of all the mfiles that matter (except the image processing). These are all commented and cleaned up at this point.
• Sortostat Modeling Probability Distributions doc - description of the modeling of the probability distributions for the number of cells in the sorting chamber and how many are CFP or YFP.
• Sortostat Modeling Stochastic Sim doc - description of the stochastic simulation of Sortostat performance.

Analytical model

• put the cleaning period / dilution rate formula derivations on the wiki.
• write up the chemostat equations as they relate to the SS cell concentration (e.g. limiting substrate? Should we reduce the concentration of glycerol?)

LabView

• why do we need to initialize the load paraemters array?

To Do List

• Figure out the MATLAB memory leak
  • I suspect this is because I'm not closing the image files properly in the MATLAB script that runs, or it could be something more annoying.
  • Does the leak influence the timing of the events, by making the image processing take too long? (e.g. why does the timing graph get noisy after awhile?)
  • Is it the MATLAB thread that blows up or the LabView? it's MATLAB.
• output the direction of sorting to the output file
• Clean up the Image Processing MATLAB scripts

Done

• Why do I see any variability in the timing? Timing between cleaning events is rock solid, the timing between sorts is influenced by the time it takes to process the image.
• Change the code so that when flipping based on the CFP it is the moving average that is used, rather than a single image.
• Make the list of experiments to evaluate the device performance limits.
  • Sorting at various dilution rates, followed by a sort to extinction.

References

• Sortostat/Foundry report card - post notes on each chip fabricated so can document common failure points in fabrication to better avoid them.