Cell Culture Contamination, Every Researcher's Nightmare! (Part II)
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:00 AM Eastern Time (ET)
Recent studies have shown that at least 20% of the animal cell cultures currently in use in the US are contaminated by either microorganisms or other cell lines! This three part live, on-line seminar series will review the scope of this major problem and examine some of its causes and techniques for avoiding it. It will also explore some key, easy to employ strategies for preventing these losses by careful culture management.
- Developing a practical approach to
aseptic technique
- Reducing day-to-day contamination
problems in the lab
- Helpful hints for avoiding
contamination
Speaker: John So, M.S.
John So, M.S., is a Field Applications Scientist at Corning Life Sciences and has over ten years of experience in cell culture. He has a Master's degree in Biology and used human hybrid cell lines to construct a physical map of the centromeric region of human chromosome 21. Before joining Corning, he worked at Northwestern University Medical School where he spent several years identifying early detection biomarkers involved in the metastasis of epithelial ovarian cancer.
We hope you will join us for this exclusive event.