2022 (Arabidopsis)

Submitted by kdorfman on Wed, 12/22/2021 - 17:40

Planting schedule

Week Day Date Lab
1 W 1/26 0.1: Plant Col0 seeds (24 pots),
micropipetting
2 M 1/31 0.2: Benchling platform
1.1: Initial working maps
W 2/02 1.2: Finalizing gene models
3 M 2/07 1.3: Identifying T-DNA insertion sites
W 2/09 1.4: Designing primers
4 M 2/14 2.1: DNA extraction (plants from week 1)
Lab 1 report due
W 2/16 2.2: DNA quantification
5 Tu 2/22 4.1: BLAST
W 2/ 23 4.2: Literature search
6 M 2/28 2.3: Testing PCR conditions
W 3/02 0.3: Arabidopsis essentials (6 rose pots per table)
3.1: Salk like genetics
plant Salk seeds (48 pots)
Lab 2 report due
7 M 3/07 4.3: Phylogeny
W 3/09 Catch-up Day
SPRING BREAK
8 M 3/21 3.2: Phenotyping Salk mutants
W 3/23 5.1: Genotype Salk mutants (DNA extraction)
Lab 4 report due
9 M 3/28 5.2 Genotype Salk mutants (PCR)
W 3/30 5.3 Genotype Salk mutants (gel purification)
10 M 4/04 5.4: Sequence analysis
W 4/06 6.1: Gene expression resources
Lab 5 report due
11 M 4/11 6.2: Statistical analysis of gene expression data
W 4/13 6.3: q-RT-PCR planning (see Planting schedule for prep)
12 W 4/20 6.4: RNA extraction and quantification
13 M 4/25 6.5: RT and qPCR
W 4/27 catch-up day
Lab 3 report due
14 M 5/02 6.6: Analysis of qPCR data
W 5/04 Work on final presentation
Finals M 5/09 Lab 6 report due
W 5/11 Final presentation due
Last chance for make-ups
Extra credit due