Techniques Carousel 2018

The annual lab techniques carousel takes place in January.

The 2017 cohort undertook their lab training from Monday 22 – Friday 26 January at the Queen’s Medical Research Institute with expert tuition from Frances Collins (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research), Karen French (BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science) and Forbes Howie (Specialist Assay Service).

This one-week intensive training course offers an invaluable opportunity to get back into the lab (or, in some cases, into the lab for the first time). It covers RNA analysis, RNA extraction and quantification, cell culture, protein analysis and western blot, giving the fellows relevant experience of some of the techniques they'll be using during their PhD.

Here’s the group ‘having fun’ in the lab! Next they’ll be putting what they have learned into practice during their mini-projects in April/May.

Image showing a group of smiling people wearing lab coats in a laboratory — L-R Antonia Churchhouse, Fraser Millar, Gráinne Neary, Tyler Morrison, Clark Russell, Jamie Loan & Prasad Palani Velu.

This article was published on 17 Nov, 2021