Biology/Chemistry Lab Skills
Throughout my educational career I have taken an extensive number of laboratory courses in areas ranging from biology to chemistry to physics. Listed below are some of the laboratory skills that I have gained over the years.
Biology Lab Skills
- Sterile Technique
- Pipetting
- Microscopy
- Gel Electrophoresis (Polyacrylamide and SDS-PAGE)
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Restriction Enzyme Mapping
- Molecular Hybridization
- Experience Working with Bacteria Cultures
- Inoculation
- Plasmid Amplification
- Conjugation
- Transformation
- Reporter Constructs
- Enzyme Assays
- Blue/White Screens
- Western and Southern Blotting
- Vector NTI
- BLAST
- Experience Working with C. Elegans
- Experience Working with the WormBase and NCBI Databases
For examples of my laboratory work, here are samples of my analysis of blue/white screens, reporter constructs, and c. elegans.
Chemical Lab Skills
- Chromatography
- Gas
- Liquid
- Column
- Paper
- Thin Layer
- Titration
- Filtration
- Distillation
- Fractional
- Vacuum
- Reflux
- Chemical Extraction
- Crystallization
- Rotary Evaporation
- Melting Point Determination
- Spectrophotometry
- IR Spectroscopy
- 1-D and 2-D NMR
- Mass Spectrometry
