1.00 Credits
0.5-3-1 This course provides students with the basic knowledge, practical laboratory skills and experience needed to engage successfully in the two laboratory internships the follow: BTT 101 and BTT 201. Topics covered include lab safety, the role of a laboratory research technician, the laboratory notebook, general research lab organization and procedures, the care and use of common laboratory instrumentation, solutions, reagents, buffers, pH, cell cultures, proteins and nucleic acids (isolation, purification, and analysis), and microscopy. This course takes place at The Wistar Institute or a comparable research laboratory. Prerequisites: ENGL 101, BIOL 123, and MATH 118 or MATH 161 or higher placement.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 101, BIOL 123, and MATH 118 or MATH 161 or higher placement.