Event

The Department of Preclinical Sciences and the Guelph Food Research Center will host a Cell Culture Workshop from September 1^st-3^rd, 2010, from 9 am-4:30 pm, at the Biochemistry Lab, Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mount Hope Medical Complex.  

Seminar topics include:

• Introduction to cell culture
• Aseptic techniques
• Basics of cryostorage
• Using transwells
• Optimizing growth conditions
• Multiple well assays and high throughput screening
• Preventing and mitigating contamination

Hands-on lab exercises:

• Media preparation, cell counting, harvesting and seeding
• Cryogenic storage techniques
• Effects of plasticware treatments on adhesion and differentiation
• Cytotoxicity and chemoprotection assays
• Transwell methods
• High throughput assay techniques and model scale-up

For a workshop application form, please email jerome.foster@sta.uwi.edu.

Application deadline: July 31^st, 2010 (only 24 spaces available).