Webinar 6: Teaching Biotech from a Distance - Quantitative RT-PCR assays and SARS-CoV-2

What's it like to scale your testing capacity from 30 tests a week to 3000 a day?  Dr. Meei-Li Huang from the Virology division at the University of Washington tells us what it was it like to work on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluating quantitative RT-PCR assays and testing people for COVID-19. 

We also demonstrated about a method where students can use BLAST and the NCBI sequence viewer to determine where their RT-PCR primers and probe map relative to each other on a DNA or RNA sequence.

Speakers

• Dr. Meei-Li Huang, UW Virology
• Dr. Sandra Porter, Digital World Biology, InnovATEBIO, Shoreline Community College