Course in a Box: Mammalian Cell Culture

Program DescriptionBio-Link offers a number of Course-in-a-Box resources intended for instructors to adapt and introduce into new courses. These collections of resources have been compiled and contributed by instructors of Bio-Link programs. Resources can include course descriptions, student outcomes, schedules, reading assignments, laboratory exercise, lecture materials, homework, classroom activities, exams, and videos.Course DescriptionThe Mammalian Cell Culture course "teaches the techniques necessary to maintain mammalian cells in culture." "Laboratory exercises provide instruction in basic techniques of routine cell culture using common cell lines before progressing to differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells."This Course-in-a-Box includes a 35-page Basics of Culture instructor manual and a 60-page student manual. The instructor manual includes a table of contents and the following sections: Basics of Cell Culture; Laboratory Safety; Cell Culture Laboratory Design and Equipment; Contamination; Cell Lines, Media and Requests; and Laboratory Exercises. The student manual includes the following sections: Introduction, Laboratory Safety, Laboratory Notebooks5, Cell culture Laboratory Equipment, Contamination, Common Laboratory Procedures, and Laboratory Exercises.Additional related instructional materials are available from Bio-Link and include problem sets and answer keys, quizzes and answers, and a final exam.Â