Lab 1 Introduction and Safety
Motivation:
Dear students, to the surprise and dismay of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) biosafety guidelines for undergraduate microbiology labs were found insufficient in spite of earlier high-quality efforts. Thus, ASM developed improved and updated guidelines in 2019. As you are taking an undergraduate microbiology lab, you absolutely need to be informed about the updated guidelines. The provide information and assignment ensures in a structure manner that you get this critical information.
A case study from 2020 may illustrate the importance of biosafety. A lab technician infected herself with infectious protein of a mouse experiment. The experiment was about mad cow disease and the lab technician developed the human version called Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). This unfortunate accident breaching biosafety guidelines had dramatic negative impacts on the health of the involved person. Understanding biosafety and following biosafety is important. The case study was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine (Brandel JP, Vlaicu MB, Culeux A, Belondrade M, Bougard D, Grznarova K, Denouel A, Plu I, Bouaziz-Amar E, Seilhean D, Levasseur M, Haïk S. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Diagnosed 7.5 Years after Occupational Exposure. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 2;383(1):83-85. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2000687. PMID: 32609989.)
Instruction:
· Please download and read the lecture slides about biosafety.
· Please download and read the “Supplemental Materials for Guidelines for Biosafety in Teaching Laboratories 2.0” by the American Society for Microbiology.
· Once you have done the readings, please then take the practice quiz about biosafety
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