3.10. Preparing 2 ml Liquid Cultures

  1. Select five individual colonies from bacteria plate. Circle the colonies and label them 1-5.
  2. Label five sterile culture tubes with the colony number, date, and initials.
  3. Using a 10 ml serological pipette, transfer 12 ml of LB into a sterile centrifuge tube.
  4. Using a p20 micropipette, transfer 12 μl of 25 mg/ml 25 mg/ml chloramphenicol and 12 μl of 50 mg/ml kanamycin.
  5. Shake the test tube to mix the contents.
  6. Using a serological pipette, transfer 2 ml of the mixture into each of the 5 culture tubes.
  7. Inoculate each culture tube with their respective colonies using an autoclaved toothpick or a sterile loop.
  8. Place the inoculated culture tubes in a shaking incubator.
  9. Turn on the incubator. Set the temperature to 37°C and the RPM to 220. Make sure that the hr setting is off.