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Microbiological methods
The document provides instructions for inoculating culture tubes and petri plates, performing serial dilutions, and preparing LB agar plates. It describes the steps for inoculating culture tubes which include flaming the tube mouth, placing the sterile inoculation loop in an active culture, transferring it to fresh media, and incubating. The steps for inoculating petri plates include covering 25% of the plate surface in a zig-zag pattern by rotating the plate. It defines serial dilutions as the stepwise dilution of a substance to manageably culture and isolate microorganisms. The preparation of LB agar includes weighing ingredients, adding them to water, boiling, and sterilizing the media to use as a non-selective growth substrate.
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Discusses inoculation of cultures, sterilization methods, and procedures for inoculating plates and tubes.
Explains serial dilutions, including process steps, benefits like concentration control, and isolation of organisms.
Details the preparation of LB agar plates, including ingredients, sterilization, and precautions during media preparation. Emphasizes importance of accurate measurements, media volume, and container capacities during culture preparation.
A brief thank you note to conclude the presentation.
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- 2. INOCULATION Inoculationof Liquid and Solid (Slant) Culture Tubes Inoculating Petri Plates SERIAL DILUTIONS PREPARATION OF LB AGAR
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- 4. Clean andsurface sterilize your work area. Use either disposable inoculation loops or a metal loop that can be heat sterilized to inoculate plates, slants, and liquid culture tubes. If using a metal loop, be sure to cool the loop by touching the sterile cooled liquid media or the sterile culture plate before the placing the loop in your live culture. Failure to cool the loop will kill your active microbial cultures!
- 5. If gas isunavailable in your lab area, you can modify a standard Bunsen burner to use camp stove propane containers as fuel.
- 6. Step 1: Removethe culture tube stopper or cap with one (do not set it down) and flame the mouth of the tube to surface sterilize the mouth. The heated tube surface will generate a thermal current that prevents contamination of the culture. Step 2: Without setting any of the culture materials on the bench, place the sterile inoculation loop in the culture. Step 3: Replace cap on the culture tube with the active microbes and put it in the test tube rack. Step 4: Without setting the loop down, pick-up a sterile fresh culture tube with media with one hand, and remove the cap with the other hand.
- 7. Step 5: Flamethe mouth of the clean culture tube. Step 6: Place the inoculation loop containing the microbes in the fresh media and swirl the loop in the loop in the media to ensure even dispersal in the media. Step 7: If using a solid media slant tube, follow steps 1-5 and then zig-zag the inoculation loop across the slanted surface of the solid media in the tube. Step 8: Flame the mouth of the newly inoculated culture tube and replace the cap. Step 9: Place the culture tube in test tube rack. Step 10: Repeat until all of the sterile tubes have been inoculated. Use a fresh disposable culture loop for each tube or flame the metal loop after each tube has been inoculated. Step 11: Incubate the culture at the recommended temperature (check with your supplier for growth requirements). If using environmental samples, incubation at room temperature will avoid the accidental culture of human pathogens. Step 12: Dispose of all culture materials in a biohazard bag and sterilize all old cultures before pouring out cultures and washing culture tubes. Disposable culture dishes should be melted in an autoclave or pressure cooker prior to disposal.
- 9. Step 1:Remove theculture tube stopper or cap with one (do not set it down) and flame the mouth of the tube to surface sterilize the mouth. The heated tube surface will generate a thermal current that prevents contamination of the culture. Step 2: Without setting any of the culture materials on the bench, place the sterile inoculation loop in the culture. Step 3: Replace cap on the culture tube with the active microbes and put it in the test tube rack. Step 4: Holding the petri dish lid at an 30-45 angle, work the inoculating loop from the outside of the plate toward the center in a zig-zag pattern that covers approximately 25% of the plate surface (think pie or pizza slice!). Step 5: Turn the petri plate 90 to the right, dragging the inoculation loop through the last section of the plate, moving from the outside to the inside in a zig-zag motion. Step 6: Repeat this process twice more until the entire plate surface is covered. NOTE: If you are trying to isolate individual colonies, each turn of the dish will give you fewer microbes so that you can distinguish individual colonies.
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- 11. “Step wise dilutionof substance in a solution” Experiment biology Highly dilute solution Concentration of microscopic organism Number of cell Manageable results Cheap Isolation of organisms
- 12. The firststep in making a Serial dilution is to take a known volume (usually 1ml) of stock and place it into a known volume of distilled water (usually 9ml). This produces 10ml of the dilute solution. This dilute solution has 1ml of extract /10ml, producing a 10-fold dilution. (i.e. the amount of stock in each ml of the diluted solution is 0.1ml.)
- 14. Preparation of Lysogeny broth(LB) agar plates
- 15. Lysogeny broth (LB),more commonly called Luria Broth, agar plates are typically used as a growth substrate for the culture of bacteria (e.g., E. Coli). Why use this? › Does not grow fastidious microorganisms. › Does not preferentially grow one kind of bacteria over another. › Grows everything!
- 16. Liquid Medium 10 gBacto-Tryptone 5 g Bacto-yeast extract 5 g NaCl Distilled H2O to 1 l volume Adjust pH to 7.0 Sterilize for 45 minutes using autoclave or pressure cooker Plate Medium 10 g Bacto-Tryptone 5 g Bacto-yeast extract 5 g NaCl Distilled H2O to 1 l volume 20 g agarose Adjust pH to 7.0 Sterilize for 45 minutes using autoclave or pressure cooker
- 17. Assemble all ofyour chemicals in your work area before you begin.
- 18. Accurately weigh each ofthe dry ingredients in your culture media.
- 19. Add each dryculture medium ingredient to the culture flask.
- 20. Add distilled (ordeionized) water to make the correct volume. Heat AND stir (agar will burn if it is not stirred) until all of the ingredients go into solution. When the media boils, it is ready for sterilization.
- 22. Things to remember: Thevolume of media (liquid or plate) should be roughly ½ the volume of the container in which it is placed for sterilization realizing that the liquid expands under increased heat and pressure during the sterilization process. Estimate plate quantities (how many you need to make) as a function of 15- 20 ml per plate.
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