14  Additional Resources/Further Reading for Lab 1

14.1 Microbiology Society “Techniques” videos

These videos illustrate many of the techniques used in this lab, you may find it helpful to watch them to prepare for the lab (or as review afterwards)

• Transferring agar to a Petri dish

• Using a sterile inoculating loop

• Making a Streak Plate

• Serial Dilution

• Using a Pipette and Spreader

14.2 Streak Plates

• The Streak Plate Protocol (American Society for Microbiology): Some good historical background and a detailed protocol

14.3 Bacterial Plasmids

• Addgene: Plasmids 101: helpful introduction to the basics of plasmid biology