Provides the basic laboratory skills and knowledge to pursue a career in biotechnology. Written by four biotechnology instructors with over 20 years of teaching experience, it incorporates instruction, exercises, and laboratory activities that the authors have been using and perfecting for years. These exercises and activities help students understand the fundamentals of working in a biotechnology laboratory. Building skills through an organized and systematic presentation of materials, procedures, and tasks, the manual explores overarching themes that relate to all biotechnology workplaces including forensic, clinical, quality control, environmental, and other testing laboratories.
Features
• Provides clear instructions and step-by-step exercises to make learning the material easier for students.
• Emphasizes fundamental laboratory skills that prepare students for the industry.
• Builds students’ skills through an organized and systematic presentation of materials, procedures, and tasks.
• Updates reflect recent innovations and regulatory requirements to ensure students stay up to date.
• Supplies skills suitable for careers in forensic, clinical, quality control, environmental, and other testing laboratories.
Author(s): Lisa A. Seidman, Mary Ellen Kraus, Diana Lietzke Brandner, Jeanette Mowery
Edition: 2
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 443
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Companion Textbooks
Acknowledgments
Authors
Introduction
Unit I Safety in the Laboratory
Unit Introduction
Safety Part 1: Creating a Safe Workplace
Classroom Activity 1: Performing A Risk Assessment
Classroom Activity 2: Exploring Safety-Related Government Websites
Classroom Activity 3: Responding to Emergencies
Safety Part 2: Working Safely with Chemicals
Classroom Activity 4: Understanding the Chemicals with Which You Work
Classroom Activity 5: Personal Protection
Laboratory Exercise 1: Tracking the Spread of Chemical Contamination
Classroom Activity 6: Analyzing Safety Issues in a Laboratory Procedure
Safety Part 3: Working Safely with Biological Hazards
Laboratory Exercise 2: Production of Bioaerosols and Factors Affecting Aerosol Production
Unit Discussion: Safety in the Laboratory
Safety Contract
Unit II Documentation in the Laboratory
Unit Introduction
Classroom Activity 7: Being an Auditor
Laboratory Exercise 3: Keeping a Laboratory Notebook
Classroom Activity 8: Writing and Following an SOP
Unit Discussion: Documentation in the Laboratory
Unit III Metrology in the Laboratory
Unit Introduction
Laboratory Exercise 4: Recording Measurements with the Correct Number of Significant Figures
Classroom Activity 9: Constructing a Simple Balance
Laboratory Exercise 5: Weight Measurements 1: Good Weighing Practices
Laboratory Exercise 6: Weight Measurements 2: Performance Verification
Laboratory Exercise 7: Volume Measurements 1: Proper Use of Volume-Measuring Devices
Laboratory Exercise 8: Volume Measurements 2: Performance Verification of a Micropipette
Laboratory Exercise 9: Measuring pH with Accuracy and Precision
Unit Discussion: Metrology in the Laboratory
Unit IV Spectrophotometry and the Measurement of Light
Unit Introduction
Laboratory Exercise 10: Color and the Absorbance of Light
Laboratory Exercise 11: Concentration, Absorbance, and Transmittance
Laboratory Exercise 12: Preparing a Standard Curve with Food Coloring and Using it for Quantitation
Classroom Activity 10: Beer’s Law and Calculating an Absorptivity Constant
Laboratory Exercise 13: Determination of the Absorptivity Constant for ONP
Unit Discussion: Spectrophotometry and the Measurement of Light
Unit V Biological Solutions
Unit Introduction
Classroom Activity 11: Getting Ready to Prepare Solutions with One Solute: Calculations
Classroom Activity 12: Getting Ready to Prepare Solutions with One Solute: Ordering Chemicals
Laboratory Exercise 14: Preparing Solutions with One Solute
Laboratory Exercise 15: Preparing Solutions to the Correct Concentration
Laboratory Exercise 16: Working with Buffers
Laboratory Exercise 17: Preparing Breaking Buffer
Laboratory Exercise 18: Preparing TE Buffer
Laboratory Exercise 19: More Practice Making a Buffer
Laboratory Exercise 20: Making a Quality Product in a Simulated Company
Unit Discussion: Biological Solutions
Unit VI Assays
Unit Introduction
Laboratory Exercise 21: Two Qualitative Assays
Laboratory Exercise 22: UV Spectrophotometric Assay of DNA: Quantitative Application
Laboratory Exercise 23: UV Spectrophotometric Assay of DNA and Proteins: Qualitative Applications
Laboratory Exercise 24: The Bradford Protein Assay: Learning the Assay
Laboratory Exercise 25: The Bradford Protein Assay: Exploring Assay Verification
Laboratory Exercise 26: The Beta-Galactosidase Enzyme Assay
Laboratory Exercise 27: Comparing the Specific Activity of Two Preparations of Beta-Galactosidase
Laboratory Exercise 28: Using Spectrophotometry for Quality Control: Niacin
Unit Discussion: Assays
Unit VII Biological Separation Methods
Unit Introduction
Classroom Activity 13: Planning for Separating Materials Using a Centrifuge
Laboratory Exercise 29: Separation of Two Substances Based on Their Differential Affinities for
Two Phases
Laboratory Exercise 30: Separation and Identification of Dyes Using Paper Chromatography
Laboratory Exercise 31: Separating Molecules by Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
Laboratory Exercise 32: Using Agarose Gel Electrophoresis to Perform an Assay
Laboratory Exercise 33: Optimizing Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
Laboratory Exercise 34: Quantification of DNA by Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
Laboratory Exercise 35: Introduction to Ion Exchange Column Chromatography
Unit Discussion: Biological Separation Methods
Unit VIII Growing Cells
Unit Introduction
Laboratory Exercise 36: Using a Compound Light Microscope
Laboratory Exercise 37: Aseptic Technique on an Open Lab Bench
Laboratory Exercise 38: Working with Bacteria on an Agar Substrate: Isolating Individual Colonies
Laboratory Exercise 39: Gram Staining
Laboratory Exercise 40: Preparing Phosphate-Buffered Saline
Laboratory Exercise 41: The Aerobic Spread-Plate Method of Enumerating Colony-Forming Units
Laboratory Exercise 42: Preparing a Growth curve for E. coli
Laboratory Exercise 43: Aseptic Technique in a Biological Safety Cabinet
Laboratory Exercise 44: Making Ham’s F-12 Medium from Dehydrated Powder
Laboratory Exercise 45: Examining, Photographing, and Feeding CHO Cells
Laboratory Exercise 46: Counting Cells Using a Hemacytometer
Laboratory Exercise 47: Subculturing CHO Cells
Laboratory Exercise 48: Preparing a Growth Curve for CHO Cells
Unit Discussion: Growing Cells
Appendix 1: Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in this Laboratory Manual
Appendix 2: Glossary
Appendix 3: Selected Bibliography
Appendix 4: Brief Metric Review
Appendix 5: Calculating Standard Deviation
Appendix 6: Equipment, Supplies, and Reagents Required for Each Unit
Appendix 7: Recipes and Preparation Notes
Index
