[DIYbio] Re: Things to do as a High School Student

I'll see if I can finagle my way into one of the local university's labs. Thanks for the pointer!

On Saturday, April 14, 2012 2:12:46 PM UTC-7, Mega wrote:

Hey,

As I always recommend, start by watching this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sovDqqhQJx8

it makes clear a lot about genetic engineering using plasmids. I think, this is a very good start.

If you have access to a university lab (or if it's legal in your country just DIY at home) you can do this experiment.


All you need is an incubator (best: 37°C; maybe 32-37°C do the job), ice , 42°C water, and a pressure cooker.

The chemicals you'll need are the plasmids, LB Agar, Ampicillin. And E.Coli of course.
I bought Ampicillin as a bird's medicine containing amp. It didn't work. So better invest a few bucks more and get something that works.


All the best





Am Samstag, 14. April 2012 10:35:35 UTC+2 schrieb MattP:

I'm interested in synthetic biology, and feel like I would probably pursue it later in life, in college most likely (major in BioEng, probably). However, is there anything I can do now? I thought about starting an iGEM HS team, but the school doesn't really have the infrastructure and there's probably not enough interest. What do you think would be the best thing to do to sort of get up to speed, and what kind of projects should I possibly look into. I have experience from robotics, so actually building equipment (gel boxes, light bulb PCR, etc) would be a possibility, but other than that, what sort of things are possible? Also, what would a basic lab setup require?

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