WEEK 26 · INSTRUMENT 2 (PLATE MODULE)
Walk into a microbiology lab and you will see plate readers: machines that measure 96 or 384 tiny wells every few minutes. Out comes a spreadsheet with thousands of numbers, and someone spends an afternoon in Excel fitting curves by eye. The plate module ends that afternoon. Growth curves (the same lag-log-stationary story from week 1, now in tiny wells), dose-response curves (how much of a compound it takes to halv…
THE NEXT BLOCK
Tuesday · after Zhang, Chung & Oldenburg
Zwietering et al. (1990), "Modeling of the bacterial growth curve", Applied and Environmental Microbiology 56(6):1875-1881 (30 min)
In: LABLOOP-W26 Notebook
By Sunday you should be able to say: “I can look at a plate report and say whether the assay is trustworthy before I talk about the result.”
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