HOME CONTENTS History Staff Contact Webmaster Blackboard The Biotechnology Laboratory provides a unique technology experience for a large portion of the Jefferson student body. The program offers a biotechnology training and research program designed to transform traditional secondary molecular biology studies into an applications program that helps students experience the power of newly-discovered research tools associated with recombinant DNA technologies. The laboratory's primary mission is to supply a laboratory research-based program that allows its students to experience topics from bacterial transformation to DNA mapping. In addition, the program provides students with the experience of new, leading-edge technologies, including bioinformatics, western blotting, animal tissue culture, and DNA sequencing.