Laboratory training is a rare, expensive, and time-consuming process, especially in research and development or R&D. You’re not just repeating someone else’s perfected standard operating protocol, it is up to you to design all the steps and make sure they are foolproof. In learning it’s not enough to copy the perfect version of events that someone else has mastered, you have to know all of the ways something can go wrong so you can reverse engineer and troubleshoot any situation. Troubleshooting experiments is a complicated topic, and over the next few videos we will break this down for different lab techniques. Today the focus will be on antibiotic sensitivity testing - the experiments that will flag any new superbugs that will cause havoc in the population because none of the available drugs we have can kill them.
My name is Jack Wang, a microbiologist and science educator, and the 2020 Australian University Teacher of the Year. The blog post accompanying this video: jackwang.com.au/blog/troublespart1
The lab techniques referenced in this video:
Antibiotic sensitivity testing: [ Ссылка ]
Designing Experiments - The Controls: [ Ссылка ]
The lab data simulator courtesy of Professor Gareth Denyer, has been previously described here: [ Ссылка ]
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