Proper Lab Techniques - need help in getting the correct techniques (Aug/10/2007 )
Hello I need help in getting the correct lab techniques.... Eg: the correct method of opening a bottle and with the right hand and holding a pipette on the left.. A situation like that.. Is there a guide book or any places where they can teach you the correct techniques... as my lecturers they kinda leave us to deal woth them ourselves with no appropriate guidance... So I desperately inneed of help here... Do not want to contaminate any experiments we're on. Thanks in advance...
well, the typical opening of the bottle you mention in your post seems to me learned only by seeing people doing that. I mean when you have some experience, you're not too stressed anymore by the pipett and what you'll may do, so you can manage all things together. Practice or seing the people doing that is the best learning. Afterthat, i went through this forum and learned some tips for many techniques by partcipiating on it and reading.
i think you stress yourself litle. You need to me little more patient with yourself.
Well, actually you have to hold the pipette on the right and the methanol on the left ......... Just kidding !!!!
You do it as you feel comfortable. Best is to watch and learn from other members and practice it slowly. You will be fluent in a few days and new students will be watching you to learn from you.
You do it as you feel comfortable. Best is to watch and learn from other members and practice it slowly. You will be fluent in a few days and new students will be watching you to learn from you.
May be if you are left-handed that will be true.
Shall we start a thread on this? - Fred, Homebrew or Minne
Tips and tricks of Lab Methods.
in some books of gene cloning and DNA anaysis or principles of gene manipulation etc etc i found chapter (usually the first or the last chapter) is on tips and tricks of lab methods, some caution to be taken, properties of some acid, alkali, and some instruciton if any accident happens in lab
hallo,
the best learning effect you will get when you can have a look to other lab-members or colleagues with a little more exprience in lab techniques (cell culture, ...). write down what´s important for you and try to reproduce. some things you can not learn from books.
Watching someone else and doing it yourself is the best way. If you apprentice yourself to someone who is prepared to point out the errors you might make (and reasons for) so much the better.
Two books that are quite popular are "Practical Skills in Biomolecular Sciences," by Rob Read et al, published by Pearson Prentice Hall ISBN 0 130 45142 8.
"At The Bench. A Laboratory navigator" by kathy Barker, published by Cold Spring harbour Laboratory Press, ISBN 0 87969 523 4.
Both books cover the main techniques, basic lab know-how and have sections on peripheral but essential topics like IT, writing a paper, keeping a lab book, what to wear and what not to wear, lab politics. The thing is though, even if you get a book, it's "authority" is second to that of the principle investigator in your lab.