qPCR – Test Young Lab qPCR Calibration

Recently, the Young Lab’s ABI 7300 qPCR machine was calibrated. Steven asked me to run a plate and see how well the calibration worked. Ran a plate with C.gigas gDNA and Gigas 18s primers (SR ID: 156 and 157) that are known to amplify gDNA. Master mix calcs are here (top half of page). Cycling params were as follows:

  • 95C – 10min

40 Cycles of:

  • 95C – 15s
  • 55C – 30s
  • 72C – 30s

Melt curve.

Results:

Absolutely no amplification of any kind. However, I did use one of our conventional PCR plates and not one of the ABI “prism” plates. Additionally, when I removed the plate from the machine, the plate looked as though it had been vigorously shaken:

Will repeat this qPCR with a proper ABI “prism” plate.

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