Summer Research in The Center For Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine


Term: Summer 2017

Lecture room: CA4131

Meeting time: TBA

Course materials: held in Box

Course description:

This is an informal course to introduce summer researchers to common concepts and techniques used in the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine. Students will learn the theory of many lab techniques in a didactic setting with some demonstrations in the laboratory and using instruments. Then, in their own time, students will be able to implement and practice these skills, at first with supervision, then eventually on their own. The purpose of this course is for students to become familiar with many techniques and concepts, both in theory and in practice, so that they may carry these skills forward during this period of summer research and in any other projects they choose to take on in the future.

Journal club discussions will also be a part of this course, to familiarize students with critically analyzing primary literature and picking apart the key points in each article. These articles will be pertinent to the direction of the center and are also potentially relevant to the technique being discussed each week. Paper assignments will be announced throughout the course. All course materials will either be found at the course Box link (provided above) or on the CBGM website.

 

Tentative Course Schedule

Week of

Topic

5/22

Basic lab management tasks- autoclave, freezer cleaning, filling water

5/22

Buffers and measurements

5/22

Pipetting with single and multi-channel pipette

5/22

Excel: calculating mean, standard deviation, and other reproducibility measures

5/22

Cell culture- eukaryotic and prokaryotic (and miscellaneous?)

5/22

Drug screening

5/29

ELISA

5/29

Luminex

5/29

Gel electrophoresis

5/29

Western blot

6/5

Microarray

6/5

Mass spectrometry  (?)