Cell Culture Contamination, Every Researchers Nightmare! (Part III)
Thursday, October 08, 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.
- Reducing cell culture accidents
- The
hidden dangers of using antibiotics in culture.
- Simple and practical contamination monitoring methods.
- Strategic use of cryopreserved
cultures
Speaker: Jeanne Phillips, Ph.D.
Jeanne E. Phillips, Ph.D., has extensive experience in the culture of epithelial cells on permeable support inserts and plates. She received her graduate degree in Biochemistry from Baylor College of Medicine where she got her start culturing MDCK cells and investigating the ability of these cells to establish polar expression of membrane proteins. She has also worked extensively in the field of hematology research and prior to joining Corning, she was a Lab Manager at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research where she did eADME Preclinical Profiling.
We hope you will join us for this exclusive event.