Skills:
Mammalian cell culture, filtering and protein purification, ELISA, gel electrophoresis, Western Blotting and imaging, PCR purification, ligation, transformation/cell growth/plating, DNA screening, pipetting, septic and sterile techniques, optical microscopy, bacterial staining, plating methods (streak, spread, pour, replica), enumeration and identification of bacteria, use of biological safety cabinets, media and buffer preparation,solution preparation, titrations, extractions filtrations, separations, simple and fractional distillation, solubility tests, determination of index of refraction, freezing point depression, simple syntheses, thin-layer chromatography, liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, reflux, recrystallization, DNA extraction, plasmid DNA preparation, restriction enzyme digests, PCR, agarose gel electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE, cell fractionation by differential centrifugation