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Course materials

This lab course is designed to provide a real life experience of work in a genetic engineering lab. Therefore, you will have to prepare all media and solutions yourself. Most of the chemicals you need will be available in the lab, but solutions will not be ready for you. You have to make them yourself. If you need something that you cannot find, ask the instructor or Larry in the biology stock room. You need to make all your buffers and solutions yourself in advance of your experiments! Please think ahead and let me know in advance of any special needs you may have. If you don't plan for your next session, your work will be delayed (which will affect your grade). Nobody will prepare the necessary materials for you! Each project will progress in its own pace and it is impossible for me know in advance what you might need. Therefore, ask if you are not sure but do not assume I can step in if you forgot to make something. I want you to learn planning your experiments. This is part of the course and will be evaluated. You also will learn to prepare solutions you need by yourself. This will become very important in case you end up working in a lab, either on the job or in grad school. Therefore, it is absolutely your own responsibility to plan ahead and prepare what you need for the next lab. Think ahead and read the next steps in the protocol. Otherwise you will loose important lab time and this will effect your performance (and your grade). I would strongly suggest to put a "needed items" list into your notebook so that you know what to you need to prepare before you can proceed. Please talk to me frequently about your needs so that I can help you find the materials (or alternative ways).

Links

Here is a nice introductory movie to synthetic biology (unfortunately I forgot where I found it).