Title: PowerPoint me in The right direction in Lab
1(Power)Point me in The right direction in Lab
Mark Walvoord University of Oklahoma ABLE 2008
2Chicken Wing Microbiology A lesson in food
safety and microbioogical technique
- Mariëlle Hoefnagels
- Mark Walvoord
ABLE 2005 Proceedings, Vol. 27185-200
3- Two main objectives
- Measure populations of bacteria on chicken wings
- Design an experiment to test a treatment that
might get rid of the bacteria - Important lessons
- Basic microbiology techniques serial dilution,
plate count, aseptic technique - Food safety
- Experimental design (investigative)
Aseptic Technique Overall goal Avoid
contaminating your solutions or anything sterile,
including pipets, saline, and agar. For example
Wash your hands before you begin ( afterwards)
Wipe down bench with Lysol before you begin
Discard any plates with existing colonies Open
containers/petri dishes only when necessary, and
then only briefly Never touch pipet tip to any
surface except the solution you are pipetting
Use each pipet only once, then set aside
- Timeline
- Week 1 set up initial counts of bacteria on
chicken wings - Week 2 count bacteria from week 1 design and
implement independent experiments - Week 3 collect data from independent
experiments write report to Wing Nut Chicken
Wing Co.
Procedures
- Label your plates test tubes
- Make wing washes for two chicken wings (per
group) - Make serial dilution (through 10-7 in test tubes)
for each wing - Inoculate agar plates (2 duplicate plates per
tube) - Clean UP
- After, put contaminated trash (gloves, chicken,
used pipets) in autoclave bags - Put clean trash (pipet wrappers, paper towels,
etc.) in rooms trashcan
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