A Beginner's Guide to Mammalian Cell Culture

About the Book: A Beginner's Guide to Mammalian Cell Culture contains the basics and the most essential knowledge on culturing mammalian cells useful for any researcher to start mammalian cell culture independently. It’s written in a simple language and is equipped with images of cell cultures and illustrations for more clarity. The contents of the book include guidance for researchers to choose appropriate cell lines reagents equipment and consumables for their research usage and maintenance of equipment basic information on bio-safety levels and precautions that must be taken at each level to ensure safety of the personnel handling cell cultures microbial contaminations and how to avoid them and most importantly tips to maintain cell cultures and to trouble shoot issues independently. The book has been edited by Dr. Francis Tan a senior research fellow at the Department of Anesthesia National University of Singapore. Dr. Tan has many years of experience in culturing mammalian cells maintaining laboratory equipment and training researchers in these techniques which has been a valuable source of input for the completion of this book. About the Author: Dr. (Mrs.) Tharindunee Jayakody is a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry University of Colombo. She obtained her BSc. (Hons) Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2012 from the University of Colombo. She obtained her PhD (2017) from the Department of Pharmacology Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore in G-protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) Signaling and Pharmacology. After completing her PhD she joined the Department of Chemistry University of Colombo as a visiting lecturer and then as a lecturer. During her PhD she was involved in developing peptide drugs to selectively modulate GPCR signaling in neuropsychiatric disorders.