• Question: what equipments do you need?

    Asked by very520eggy on 10 Mar 2025.
    • Photo: Mimi Asogwa

      Mimi Asogwa answered on 10 Mar 2025:

      I use various equipment in the lab as a Microbiologist to study microbes and count them in water sample: microscope, steamer, incubator, water bath, qPCR machine, autoclave, bio-safety cabinet, centrifuge.
      We also have to wear protective clothing eg lab coat, safety googles and hand gloves

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  • Photo: andersonj

    andersonj commented on :

    I use a lot of the same as Mimi, but I also work with computational biology so use a lot of equipment which is not in the lab. For example there are programmes I use which can compare the sequences of bases in a gene with many others to find out if they might have a similar function. Another I use often is able to use information about how other proteins fold when they have specific components in their sequence to predict how a new protein folds.