Course unit details:
Laboratory Skills Unit
| Unit code | MEDN66111 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 15 |
| Unit level | FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
| Offered by | Division of Cell Matrix Biology and Regenerative Medicine |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
The unit will consist of an induction session and two of the following workshops, providing theoretical or hands-on experience in the wet or dry laboratory environment
Aims
The unit aims to:
Equip students with the theoretical understanding and practical skills relating to laboratory and computer-based based biomedical techniques to enable them to undertake experimental research in the biomedical sciences.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this Unit the student will:
- Develop awareness of current best practice in laboratory health and safety and understand how to keep themselves and those around them safe within a laboratory environment.
- Develop an understanding of the principles of a range of practical techniques used in the biomedical context and understand how to employ and adapt these within their own research applications.
- Develop critical understanding of the limitations of particular techniques and their applications.
- Develop an understanding of how to solve problems arising from unexpected results.
- Acquire the practical skills to enable them to follow written standard laboratory methods and achieve expected outcomes.
- Acquire technical competence in a range of biomedical and computational techniques.
- Learn best practice for recording experimental procedures and outcomes in a standard laboratory notebook.
- Be able to carry out laboratory techniques alone or in partnership with others safely and efficiently.
- Demonstrate the ability to record experimental procedures in written form and to interpret experimental results obtained.
Teaching and learning methods
The learning and teaching processes will take the form of lectures, practical laboratory classes, laboratory demonstrations and e-learning (completion of on-line formative assessments).
Intellectual skills
Transferable skills and personal qualities
Students will:
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Be able to carry out laboratory techniques alone or in partnership with others safely and efficiently.
- Demonstrate the ability to record experimental procedures in written form and to interpret experimental results obtained.
Assessment methods
| Method | Weight |
|---|---|
| Other | 20% |
| Report | 80% |
Feedback methods
All feedback will be delivered online using blackboard
Recommended reading
J Davies (ed) (2002) Basic Cell Culture: A Practical Approach. OUP Oxford; 2nd edition.
ISBN-13: 978-0199638536
JP Mather, PE Roberts (eds) (1998) Introduction to cell and tissue culture: theory and technique. Plenum Press, London, ISBN: 0306458594, 9780306458590 (Blue 2: 571.538/MAT)
Cabibbo A, Grant RP, Helmer-Citterich M (eds) (2004) Internet for the Cell and Molecular Biologist (2nd Edition) Horizon Scientific Press, Wymondham, ISBN: 1-898-48632-8 (Blue 2: 570.285/CAB)
McPherson MJ, Møller SG (2006) PCR: The Basics (2nd Edition) BIOS, Oxford, ISBN: 0-415-35547-8 (Blue 2: 572.808/MCP). Available via JRULM electronic resources
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=53951
T Brown (ed) (2000, 2001) Essential Molecular Biology Vols 1&2: A Practical Approach: v. 2. OUP Oxford. ISBN-13: 978-0199636426, 978-0199636440
Rosenberg, Ian M (2006) Protein Analysis and Purification: Benchtop Techniques (2nd Edition) Birkhäuser Boston MA. ISBN: 9780817644123, 9780817643409. Available via
JRULM electronic resources: Springer e-books http://www.springerlink.com/content/k3183r/#section=500456&page=1
Study hours
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 150 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Carol Yates | Unit coordinator |
| Susan Taylor | Unit coordinator |