Introduction to Laboratory Skills
1 Day Course £299
This is an introductory course designed for participants with little to no previous laboratory experience. During this one-day course, participants learn transferable skills suitable for any laboratory work. The programme provides participants with an understanding of safe working practices and experience using essential equipment and protocols. Participants may attend this as a ‘stand-alone’ course or as an introduction to the BioGrad Education facility before attending one of our more advanced courses.
The Introduction to Laboratory Skills course runs from 9:30am – 4pm with an hour break for lunch. The course includes breakfast and lunch, with time for networking and seeking advice from our scientists available. The course is taught with a very low participant to tutor ratio (5:1) so it is likely that you will meet several scientists during your course. This also allows participants to spend as much time as they need to practice techniques until they are confident. We allow participants to make (safe) mistakes and correct their own work so that they learn from their own mistakes, and we encourage participants to try different approaches to solve laboratory-based problems.
What to Expect
Overview
This is our most popular course and runs many times a year. You will learn about laboratory safety, pipetting, serial dilutions, measuring pH, standard curves and laboratory book maintenance. The course is designed and delivered by research scientists working in both industry and academia, so we always teach the most up-to-date techniques. We alternate lecturers to keep the delivery of this course fresh and enthusiastic. Over the years, BioGrad Education lecturers have taught essential practical skills to thousands of graduate participants to help develop participants’ CV’s and improve their employability after education.
Course Content
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Laboratory Health and Safety including Risk Assessments and COSHH
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Different pipettes, pipetting techniques
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Use of balances
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Serial dilutions
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Making stock solutions (Molarity)
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Calibration & measuring pH of stock solutions
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Absorbance measurement using 96-well plate reader
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Maintenance of laboratory notebooks