Preferred learners
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Academic experience
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Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Our company has recently acquired an HPLC (high performance liquid chromatograph) from Agilent Technologies. This device can separate and identify the various materials or compounds in a tissue sample from, say, an experimental plant (like a celery plant grown in the lab). We are looking for a student to help us continue to find out how different plants react to various synthetic chemicals.
Our constantly expanding seed library aims to cover all of the common and readily available crop plant families, as well as less common ones to ensure the broadest coverage for available genes. The genes that allow plants to produce the hundreds of thousands of known secondary metabolites are spread out through many families and even species, so unlocking the full potential of HAP starts with a strong and diverse germplasm catalogue.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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- HPLC tissue sample preparation, i. e. leaves from plants that may contain secondary metabolites of interest.
- Students will need to learn the current running protocols.
- Further their understanding, or form a basis of understanding advanced HPLC technology.
- Students will be tasked with presenting their findings.
- Learn to understand research lab horticultural practices of growing sprouts, and seedlings.
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Our company has recently acquired an HPLC (high performance liquid chromatograph) from Agilent Technologies. This device can separate and identify the various materials or compounds in a tissue sample from, say, an experimental plant (like a celery plant grown in the lab). We are looking for a student to help us continue to find out how different plants react to various synthetic chemicals.
Our constantly expanding seed library aims to cover all of the common and readily available crop plant families, as well as less common ones to ensure the broadest coverage for available genes. The genes that allow plants to produce the hundreds of thousands of known secondary metabolites are spread out through many families and even species, so unlocking the full potential of HAP starts with a strong and diverse germplasm catalogue.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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- HPLC tissue sample preparation, i. e. leaves from plants that may contain secondary metabolites of interest.
- Students will need to learn the current running protocols.
- Further their understanding, or form a basis of understanding advanced HPLC technology.
- Students will be tasked with presenting their findings.
- Learn to understand research lab horticultural practices of growing sprouts, and seedlings.
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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The project will take place mostly onsite at our lab in Vancouver and you'll be provided with all the materials and requirements needed. Interns will be instructed by on site professionals until they can do the protocols independently.
Our team is here to help you learn during your 80 hours with us! If you've interested in the work we're doing and eager to learn and ask questions we want to work with you and will teach you what you need to know along the way.
We will give our time and experience as well as provide the learner with literature and equipment. We will provide: guidance, readings, deadlines, and a space that is conducive for accomplishment.
- What skills or technologies will help learners to complete the project?
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Project will occur onsite - we are seeking curious minds to help us be creative in a scientific way. It is helpful (but not necessary) if students understand: botany, genetics, basic chemistry and biology, computational spectral analysis, laboratory horticulture (growing plants in a lab setting – not in the wild or agriculture) and secondary metabolites in plants.
Supported causes
About the company
- https://www.hap.bio
- 2 - 10 employees
- Hospital, health, wellness & medical
Our company is engaged in mapping out a new branch of botany called natural enzyme promiscuity. This is the way plants react when introduced to synthetic chemicals.