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Projects > Biotechnology Crash Course
Collaborators: Ellen D. Jorgensen, Ph.D.
This course will be held at Genspace in March on three consecutive Sundays (4,11 & 18th). The course fee is $300 (three $150 student slots are available).
Did you know that an entire human genome can be sequenced in three days? And that all the cheese that you eat is made with genetically engineered rennet? Biotechnology touches our lives in many ways, and it is changing with blinding speed. This course teaches you the techniques that facilitated the biotechnology revolution, and shows you where the field is headed in the future. We go over the basic concepts, then get right into the wet lab work. You will isolate mitochondrial DNA from yourself and amplify it for sequencing using PCR. When the sequence data comes back, we use bioinformatics to interpret it. You'll learn the fundamental lab techniques that make fundamental genetic engineering projects possible. This is a great first course. We recommend that anyone contemplating joining Genspace or thinking of taking the Synthetic Biology Course take this one first, if possible.
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Did you know that an entire human genome can be sequenced in three days? And that all the cheese that you eat is made with genetically engineered rennet? Biotechnology touches our lives in many ways, and it is changing with blinding speed. This course teaches you the techniques that facilitated the biotechnology revolution, and shows you where the field is headed in the future. We go over the basic concepts, then get right into the wet lab work. You will isolate mitochondrial DNA from yourself and amplify it for sequencing using PCR. When the sequence data comes back, we use bioinformatics to interpret it. You'll learn the fundamental lab techniques that make fundamental genetic engineering projects possible. This is a great first course. We recommend that anyone contemplating joining Genspace or thinking of taking the Synthetic Biology Course take this one first, if possible.
Register for this class
Buy a gift certificate for this class