Training Program - Tentative
Registration for the Upcoming class to be offered in January, 2007 will be announced soon
Clongen Laboratories, LLC offers a Comprehensive three day Course/Workshop in Microbiology. The course covers the fundamentals of conventional Microbiology and offers a hands-on experience for students.
Course Instructor: A. Kilani, Ph.D., M.S., MT(ASCP) President and Laboratory Director, Clongen Laboratories, LLC. Dr. Kilani has extensive research experience in the areas of molecular and cell biology as well as molecular diagnostics. Dr. Kilani taught Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Courses to graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. He co-authored a laboratory handbook detailing diagnostic techniques for Infectious Diseases in 1999.
About the Course: This is a rigorous and comprehensive three day Course/Workshop in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, designed for those with basic knowledge in Microbiology and looking for a career in biotechnology in research institutions, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. This course will combine a theoretical overview with hands-on laboratory work in Microbiology.
Certification: Those who will successfully complete the course, and pass the exam will be given a Certificate of completion.
Selection of candidates: The course will be administered to a maximum of 6 students each time it is offered to ensure that students receive the proper attention from the instructor. The course is offered on a "first come first served" basis and due to the 6 student limit allowed, the instructor will make arrangements for students who apply after the class limit had been reached. Depending on demand, the course will likely be offered again in April, 2005
Course Description:
Day 1. Lecture: An Introduction to Bacteriology, , Laboratory Safety, Microscopy, classes of bacteria, culture media types, staining methods, identification methods, and drug susceptibility mechanisms. Non-conventional diagnostic techniques used in the laboratory, basic genetics presentation. Laboratory: examples of bacteria grown on different media plates, gram staining, spore staining, capsule staining, bacterial culturing methods and preparation of pure cultures for inoculation of identification kit.
Day 2. Lecture: Virology introduction, Taxonomy of clinically important viruses, identification methods. Introduction to Mycology and overview on clinically important yeast and mold, identification methods. Laboratory: continuation of bacterial identification of an unknown organism from day 1, Fluorescent staining of cell monolayers infected with known viruses, mold identification and comparison.
Day 3. Final identification of unknown organisms received on day 1 and final exam covering subjects learned during the course.
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Location: Clongen Laboratories, LLC
12321 Middlebrook Road, Suite 120
Germantown, MD 20874