List of Skills of Lab Skills Acquired 1) Bacterial Identification 2) Gram Staining 3) Gel Electrophoresis (My favorite) 4) PCR 5) Restriction Enzyme Digestion 6) DNA Analysis 7) Crime Scene Investigation 8) Glucose Tolerance Testing 9) Calorimetry 10) Food Testing with Chemical Indicators 11) Micropipetting 12) Food Label Analysis 13) Biochemistry 14) Experimental Design 15) Centrifuging and Hematocrit Analysis 16) Karyotyping 17) Protein Synthesis 18) HIPAA 19) Genetic Counseling and Probabilities 20) Blood Pressure Analysis 21) Heart Rate Analysis 22) Electrocardiogram Analysis 23) Microscopy 24) Medical Terminology including directional terms 25) Regional Terms 26) Tissue Microscopy 27) Forensic Anthropoology including bone identification including gender, ethnicity, height, age 28) Equation of a line for height prediction 29) Molecular Biology 30) Restriction Enzyme Digestion 31) Gel electrophoresis 32) Biometrics-fingerprints, retinal patterns, and facial features 33) Vision screening including visual perception 34) Visual Perception 35) Visual Acuity 36) Depth perception 37) Peripheral vision 38) Color vision 39) Interpretations of optical illusions 40) Enzyme catalyzed reactions using manipulation of temperature 41) pH and concentration of enzyme or substrate 42) Nutritional health analysis including BMI and BMR 43) Analyze data collected using a spirometer to determine tidal volume, vital capacity, and minute volume 44) Dissection of eye, kidney, synovial joint, cross section of long bone 45) Mathematical calculations of glomerular filtration rate 46) Nomenclature for bones, muscles, vessels 47) Origins, insertions, actions 48) Measure range of motion using goniometer 49) Find various pulse points around the body and use heart rate data to calculate and asses cardiac output 50) Measure peripheral pulses using Doppler ultrasound 51) Calculate an ankle brachial index (ABI) 52) Interpret EMG and grip strength data to asses muscle fatigue 53) Exercise physiology 54) Use bioinformatics to identify disease pathogens 55) ELISA 56) Epidemiology 57) Serial dilutions 58) Antibiotic resistance 59) Agar plate streaking and bacterial growth 60) Bioethics 61) Audiology – sensorineural vs. conductive hearing loss 62) Pure Tone tests to evaluate hearing loss 63) Interpret audiograms 64) Immunology and vaccinations 65) Genetic engineering of plasmids 66) Molecular biology including restriction enzymes 67) Recombinant DNA technology 68) DNA extraction, PCR 69) Restriction analysis 70) Genetic counseling 71) Gene therapy including preimplantation genetic diagnosis, 72)reproductive cloning 73) Viral vector transfer to human DNA, radiology 74) DNA Microarray 75) Correlation coefficient, microscopy for visual observation 76)of normal vs. cancer cells 77) Marker analysis, cancer risk factors and screenings 78) Chemotherapy 79) Biofeedback therapy 80) Prosthetic limbs 81) Experimental design 82) Personalized medicine 83) Nanotechnology 84) Clinical trials – controlled, randomized, double blind 85)studies bacterial transformation 86) Plasmids, chromatography 87) Protein electrophoresis 88) Transformation efficiency 89) Protein purification 90) Molecular weight calculation 91) Hemodialysis 92) Peritoneal dialysis 93) Kidney transplant 94) Surgical transplant techniques 95) Blood typing and HLA typing 96) Laparoscopy 97) Xenotransplantation 98) Tissue engineering