BIOL 417 Selected Topics in Molecular and Cellular Biology

Lab based workshop in mammalian cell tissue culture.

Want to learn real laboratory techniques that will give you experience that you can use for getting a job, getting into grad school and so much more?

Then this is the course for you!

This course is a 2 Credit workshop in which you will learn:

• General Tissue Culture techniques.

• How to extract and quantify RNA and Protein

• Western blotting

• Gel electrophoresis

• Primary cell culture

• cDNA generation

• Toxicity Testing

•  Forensic PCR

• Mammalian cell transfection

• Bacterial plasmid isolation and restriction digestion.

These techniques will give you experience for careers in laboratory based science, and give you a head start on other graduates with no laboratory experience.

For the class, you will attend the week long workshop at the Prince William campus, 9-5.30 each day for 5 days.  The 5 day class will end with an exam on Friday. In addition during the week workshop you will keep a hard backed laboratory notebook for each day.  You will also complete a complete laboratory report of all of your data and a short term paper on a topic encompassing mammalian cell culture – by July 18^th 2011.

BIOL 417 takes place on the Prince William Campus June 27^th through July 1^st 2011.

For information contact Dr. G Grant ggrant1@gmu.edu or 3-4292, or contact the Biology office.