BTC 4301 — Lab for BTC 4300
1 semester hoursUndergraduateLabusually offered: springtypical days: MBostonHybrid
Accompanies BTC 4300. Offers students an opportunity to learn important technical and safety concepts relevant to biotechnology and pharmaceutical processing while gaining hands-on experiences in a modern laboratory. Employs upstream equipment (e.g., cell culture vessels and sonication device); covers downstream operations (e.g., centrifuge and chromatography columns) and analytical tools (e.g., sensors, spectrophotometer, gel electrophoresis) for studying cell metabolism; recovering and separating cell components (e.g., organelles, DNA, proteins); purifying the target product (e.g., recombinant green fluorescent protein); and analyzing the efficacy of process steps through mass balancing.
Prerequisites
Corequisites (same term)
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 11 | 30 | 37% | 19.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 100% · T 0% · W 0% · Th 0% · F 0%
Common patterns: M (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Spring
- Jean-Francois Hamel (100% of students)
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (BTC course descriptions) · All BTC courses · Plan it at numap.app