BIOL 2910
Laboratory Biology
Winter 2026
Topics
- Course number Biology 2910 | Laboratory Biology
- and name
- AI can suggest how to best organize your thoughts
- Examples, analogies and counterarguments
- Use at your own risk
- Writing
- Script for a presentation
- As long as it’s based on your own original work and not AI-generated text… AI
- summarizing AI is bad
- Feedback on your work
- This one is for your profs. I haven’t used AI yet for this purpose, but I can see how it
- might be useful
- Revision of a text to improve it
- While being aware that AI doesn’t always “improve” written work
- Revision of a text to change word count
- Sometimes a necessary editing step
- Summarizing and collating ideas is a key part of work life, and AI doesn’t always do
- a great job
- Writing a draft of a paper or discussion post
- It’s too tempting to let it do all the work, including writing the final version
2023
Topics
- Pipetting
- Spectrometry
- Buffer preparation
- Tissue collection and homogenization
- Centrifugation
- Chromatography (thin layer, gel permeation)
- Antibodies to detect proteins
- Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE)
- Biomacromolecule purification, identification and characterization
- Georgian
- To log into your course website
- Enter your Login/ID (your Lakehead University e-mail username) and your Password/PIN number
- Click on the course title to enter the course
- Class Schedule
- (Dr. Menon) Tuesdays 11:30am-2:30pm OA3002
- (Dr. C-A.) Wednesdays 8:30-10:30am 0A3002
- to , 23 (Exam Preparation Days)
Readings
- The lab manual will provided as required on the course D2L page.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗2026
- syllabus ↗Winter 2026
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗2023
- lab_materials ↗Winter 2016
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.