(July 24, 2024) Webinar: Lab Incubator Decontamination: Why, When and How
Laboratory incubators can get contaminated from many sources, lab air/environment, users’ clothing/hands, or by contaminated cultures introduced into the incubator, etc. Many types of organisms may be involved: bacteria, fungi and viruses.
Ever since the introduction of pure cultures, those cultures have been at risk of contamination. For mammalian cell cultures this represents a significant issue since cell lines and cell cultures are slower growing and more fastidious in general than bacterial or fungal cultures.
In some cases, the contamination may be obvious. In other cases, especially Mycoplasma sp. contaminations, the primary indication may only be experiments with spurious or nonsensical results.
Learning objectives:
How undesirable organisms are introduced to an incubator.
- What to look for when a contamination is suspected.
- What steps can be taken to minimize contaminations.
- What actions can be taken when a contamination is confirmed or suspected.
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About the Speaker (s)
Randy Engler is a biotechnology business executive with years of global business development, product development and sales experience in all aspects of the biotechnology industry. With academic training in microbiology and immunology, he has led commercialization efforts and teams introducing new products and technologies to new markets, for companies as diverse as Genzyme Diagnostics to Thermo Fisher.
Randy’s global experience in research and diagnostic markets, drug delivery and therapeutic development, combined with educational accomplishments (BS, MBA) gives him strategic view of all aspects of the biotechnology industry and he brings capability and vision to MycoFog.
