Cell Culture Technologies online course
NPTEL is offering online course for Postgraduate students in Cell Culture Technologies.
About the Course:
Course Layout:
Duration: 08 weeks
Exam Date: April 25, 2020
Enrollment Ends: February 24, 2020
For more details, please visit: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_me04/preview
- The course will be a short primer to understand how ‘animal cell culture technologies’ have strengthen the bio-medical research from basic research to the modern drug discovery.
- Animal cell culture was first performed in the very first decade of 19th century.
- Since then, tremendous development has taken place in this field.
- The lectures will help the researcher to appreciate the developments during last hundred years and will help them to independently set up cell culture laboratories.
- For non-biologist, it will be an informal way to demystify the intriguing routes of biomedical research where cell culture is a very ‘potent tool’.
Course Layout:
- Week 1: Introduction & biology of cultured cells
- Week 2: Equipments, aseptic techniques, safety protocols
- Week 3: Culture vessels & media development
- Week 4: Serum-free medium development & sterilization
- Week 5: Primary culture, secondary culture, cloning & selection
- Week 6: Cell separation, characterization, differentiation & transformation
- Week 7: Contamination, cryo-preservation & cyto-toxicity
- Week 8: Organo-typic culture & specialized cell culture techniques
Duration: 08 weeks
Exam Date: April 25, 2020
Enrollment Ends: February 24, 2020
For more details, please visit: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_me04/preview
