>>7775115

It'll vary based on your concentration. In microbiology, laboratory classes basically get your feet wet.

>Intro to Micro Lab
Pipetting
Aseptic technique
Media inoculation
Slide preparation
Biochemical identification of microbes

>Micro Lab II
Media preparation
DNA extraction, purification, and quantification
Transformation protocols
Bacterial culture

>Food Microbiology Lab
This was basically application of techniques learned in Intro Micro lab to identify foodborne pathogens. The only difference is we used a stomacher to homogenize food samples before spreading on plates.

Honestly, don't stress the molecular techniques. Just make sure you can pipette worth a damn, work a scale, and your aseptic technique is straight. Also, be sure you can do basic lab math. Goddammit, undergrad research volunteers can't calculate anything worth a damn. If you can do those four things, you'll be all set to learn the more nuanced shit you'll learn while working in a lab.

Basically you'll be micropipetting different substances.

>>7775115
In terms of broad spectrum?
>pipette skills
>inoculating an agar plate
>centrifuging
>that rumbly thing where it mixes shit better than your incompetent ass could

>>7775636
>that rumbly thing where it mixes shit better than your incompetent ass could
VORTEX son. Be careful not to use it when separating plasmids from chromosomal DNA.

>>7776444
>he fell for the plasmid prep memes
I vortex my preps all the time, it doesn't do shit to your DNA.

>>7775115

Don't unplug the freezer.

>>7775115
centrifuges
thermalcyclers
electrophoresis
cell culturing

and some other stuff I do on the daily in research but I am microbio and not a general bio

general bio you will probably
sometimes micropipette stuff
cut out paper things and arrange them

>>7775264
>Goddammit, undergrad research volunteers can't calculate anything worth a damn.

This is no joke, my current professor I work for picked me up literally due to the fact I enjoy doing math and stats as a hobby and not a single person in his lab could even do general calculus (all female lab except me, microbio l o l) and I do all the math while teaching them and do my own research

get a good grasp of math/chemistry and you will get far in biology since most people are there because they dont have to do much math

>>7776827
Topkek.

>>7775115

Good lists, nothing really to add for lab sections.

I would say that you'll get your experience working in a lab as an undergrad, so that's really what will carry you (techniques and practices and projects and what not) to the next step.

>>7775115
Tying down small animals and dissecting them, scalpel techniques, skinning.

>>7776792
Haha, you got me there mate ;^)

Is anyone else triggered by the fact that the guy in OP's pic isn't wearing gloves?

>>7778610

I'm not anymore. When I worked in biophysics other groups we shared labspace with would not wear gloves inside the hoods. Boggles my mind to this day.

>>7778610
Nobody wears gloves in the lab, nerd

>>7776859
>cut out paper things and arrange them

Jesus fuck, is this accurate. Get ready to count m&m's and beads.

>>7775264
>tfw my degree requires high level stats course and up to calc III

>>7778610
Who says it's a hazard day?
Not every lab handles hazardous chemicals.

>>7779968
I forgot that calculus 3 was a physical skill that was exercised in a laboratory environment.