Lab & Computing skills

Lab Skills Computer Skills

  • Animal cell culture
  • Karyotyping
  • Fluorescence microscopy
  • Liquid scintillation/quench curve
  • Immunoassay

  • Restriction mapping
  • Cloning into plasmids & lambda phage & screening/selection of transformed clones
  • Ames test
  • Bacterial/fungal strain characterization
  • Biochemistry of iron
  • Collection management
  • Phage plaque assay & deletion mapping

  • PCR, Sanger sequencing, cycle sequencing
  • Southern blot, Northern blot
  • Western blot, SDS-PAGE (silver stain)

  • Chromatography (HPLC isocratic & gradient columns)
  • Gel filtration, affinity column
  • Dialysis, salting in/out
  • Edman degradation
  • Fiske-Subbarow phosphate assay
  • Bradford protein assay
  • Lowry protein assay
  • Enzyme kinetics (linear & non-linear regression) & calculation of enzyme specific activity

  • Apparatus fabrication
  • Biochem/molecular biology computer apps (ChemDraw, NIH Image, RasMol, Hitachi DNASIS suite, GCG, BLAST, etc.).
Applications

Word processing & publishing (Word, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Quark Xpress), graphics (PhotoShop, Illustrator), video editing (Ulead), database (Excel, incl. math & stats functions), biochem/molecular (ChemDraw, NIH Image, RasMol, GCG, BLAST, Prizm, Kaleidagraph, etc.)

Platforms

DOS, Win (XP, NT), Mac OS X, UNIX/Linux

Programming

Basic coding skills in Java, C, HTML, XML, Perl; have showable portfolio of C and Java applets and command-line applications (prime number generator, power series generator, color palette, any-sided polygon, etc.)

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