Liquid handling machines of various types have been widely adopted across both industry and academic/government labs for their highly standardized, high-throughput capabilities.  Therefore, Katie Kyle will be teaching a course on using liquid handling robots, Eppendorf’s EPmotion and Qiagen’s QIAxcel over three days in mid-May.  The course will focus on processing samples, robotic pipetting, and running gels.  Liquid handling, both manual and automated is necessary for molecular biology laboratory success.  Participants will gain basic competency in EPmotion equipment handling and programming, in addition to learning more intricate programming to tackle difficult liquid types or custom sample processing needs.  Besides automating monotonous tasks such as dilutions and aliquots, students will learn how liquid handling machines can be used to automate DNA extractions, NGS pipelines, screening assays, gel electrophoresis, and more.

The PSM program is happy to welcome Barrett Nuttall back as a speaker this Thursday for our seminar series focusing on exposing current students to industry professionals. Barrett has almost 12 years of industry experience, spending the last nearly nine years working in Translational Genomics at AstraZeneca in Waltham, MA. We are happy to hear what Barrett has been up to since working in Dr. Nyholm’s lab and graduating with an Applied Genomics PSM.

MCB Professional Science Master’s Summer Divergent Early Session 2023 Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Summer Divergent Early Session 2023. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. In May we will be offering two modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites.

MCB 5671-30 Microbial Genome Sequencing, Assembly and Annotation
MCB 5895-40 Microscopy

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information

MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) Winter Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Winter Session 2023. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This winter we will be offering two modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites.

MCB 5671-1 Advanced Liquid Handling and Sample Processing
MCB 5671-2 Characterization of Microbial Communities by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information.

MCB Professional Science Master’s May Term 2022 Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program May Term 2022. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. In May we will be offering two modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites.

MCB 5427-50 Introduction to Cell Culture Techniques
MCB 5671-03 COVID-19 Diagnosis: SARS-CoV-2 Quantification, Mutation Detection and Genome Sequencing

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information

MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) Winter Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Winter Session 2022. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This winter we will be offering two modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites.

MCB 5671-1 Advanced Liquid Handling and Sample Processing
MCB 5671-2 Microbial Genome Sequencing, Assembly and Annotation

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information.

MCB Professional Science Master’s Summer Session 2021 Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Summer Session 2021. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This summer we will be offering one module. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites.

MCB 5671-03 COVID-19 Diagnosis: SARS-CoV-2 Quantification, Mutation Detection and Genome Sequencing

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information

MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) Winter Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Winter Session 2021. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This winter we will be offering one module. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites.

MCB 5671-1 Advanced Liquid Handling and Sample Processing

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information.

MCB Professional Science Master’s Summer Session 2020 Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Summer Session 2020. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This summer we will be offering two modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites

MCB 5670-02 Bacterial DNA & RNA Isolation and Quality Control
MCB 5671-02 Characterization of Microbial Communities by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information

MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) Winter Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Winter Session 2020. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This winter we will be offering two modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites.

MCB 5671-1 Advanced Liquid Handling and Sample Processing
MCB 5671-2 Microbial Genome Sequencing, Assembly and Annotation

Please contact elaine.mirkin@uconn.edu for more information.