Scientific skills
General skills
Lab skills
Specific lab skills:
Data analysis and interpretation skills
- Learn the scientific process
- Reading and interpreting relevant scientific papers
General skills
- Time management
- Presentation skills
- Critical thinking
- Teamwork, with an emphasis on lab community building
- Problem-solving in teams
Lab skills
- Lab safety
- Lab notebook protocols
- Pipetting technique
- Molecular ecology: Genetic markers, applications, types of sequencing
Specific lab skills:
- DNA extractions
- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) troubleshooting
- Agarose gel electrophoresis to check DNA quality and PCR products
- Measurement of DNA quantity using a fluorometer
- Experience conducting experiments and using positive and negative controls
Data analysis and interpretation skills
- Cleaning, trimming and aligning Sanger sequences
- Experience blasting DNA sequences in Genbank and BOLD databases
- Basics on phylogenetic trees and haplotype networks using PAUP and R