Questions for Andy
- Andy asked Brigette and I to come up with questions pertaining the experiments we ran last night (AA + MT + AF)
- The bulk of the questions, for me at least, will deal with some chemistry and Ph related things
The Questions
- What Ph do MT's thrive in? (my guess would be near 7)
- What is the Ph of BRB80 (and BRB80T)? (I overheard it was made of salts, so possibly near 7 also)
- For that matter, what is BRB80 comprised of?
- What is the Ph of the AF cocktail? ( I should look up Glucose oxidase (GOD), Catalase (CAT), and beta-mercaptoethanol (BME))
- How does Ascetic Acid and AF interact? (it seemed to do terrible things to the tubulin)
- For that matter, how does AF interact with the MT's?
The Chemicals
- Glucose Oxidase is an enzyme that binds to beta-D-glucopyranose (a form of the sugar glucose)
- It is dimeric
- It uses flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), which comes from Redox reactions, to become a catalyst.
- It also reduces natural 02 into h202 (hydrogen peroxide)
Computer
- Koch and I got the drivers installed and the computer put on the server
- Its name is Kochlab-daq2
- It has 2 ports in the back (as far as I can tell) one for a video card and one for a DAQ card
- LABView 71 and visual safe source also installed
Video Cards
- I went to the Dell site and tried to "build my own" optiplex 960
- I figure if Dell sells the card, they work with the computer. I will also try to price them out on sites such as amazon
- Here are the video cards they offer:
- 256MB ATI RADEON HD 3450 (Dual DVI/ VGA /1 TV-out), full height [add $74]
- 256MB ATI RADEON HD 3470 (Dual DP), full height [add $84]
- 512MB ATI RADEON HD4670,Dual DVI/ plus single DVI VGA adapter [add $139]
- 256MB nVidia GeForce 9300 GE (Dual DVI/ VGA /1 TV-out), full height [add $74]
- 512MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 Quad DVI Adapter, Full Height [add $499]
- 512MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 Quad DisplayPort Adapter, Full Height [add $499]
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