Advanced College Diploma - Biotechnology - Advanced (Optional Co-op) (3602)

Program Description This Biotechnology - Advanced program will prepare students with the scientific principles, techniques and skills required in industrial microbiology and chemistry. In this applied science program, students will also study biotechnology applications, biochemistry, microbial genetics, and clinical and environmental microbiology.

Students' Biotechnology - Advanced courses will teach them to: • Isolate, enumerate and identify microorganisms from many types of samples; • Accurately calibrate and use instruments such as pH and BOD meters, gas chromatographs, spectrophotometers, HPLCs, centrifuges, PCR thermocyclers and gel electrophoresis equipment; • Prepare media and reagents to culture pathogenic microbes; • Design and perform advanced microbiology and microbial genetics experiments; • Isolate DNA and perform gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on samples.