“Biotesting technologies in environmental control of natural environments and man-made objects” - course 60,000 rubles. from MSU, training 4 weeks. (1 month), Date: November 29, 2023.

Program volume (academic hours): 72 hours (16 classroom hours)

Form of study: full-time, distance learning

Dates of classes: as groups are recruited (small groups, from 5 people)

Admission requirements: higher professional education or secondary specialized education

Program Manager: Vera Aleksandrovna Terekhova, Email: [email protected], tel. 8 (495) 930-03-95.

Responsible for additional education: Timofeeva Elena Aleksandrovna, Email: [email protected], tel. 8 (903) 22-33-99-2, 8 (495) 939-22-33 

If necessary, the program can be adapted to the customer’s requirements - expanded, removed, or the necessary topics added to the curriculum of the additional education program

Who is this course for?
The program is intended primarily for managers and specialists of environmental analytical laboratories of manufacturing enterprises and Centers for laboratory analysis and technical measurements (TsLATI) using or planning to use biotesting methods for environmental monitoring, assessing the hazard class of waste, identifying the degree of harmful effects on natural environments. The program is also of interest to teachers of environmental specialties at universities and other educational institutions. institutions, for individuals and organizations carrying out environmental research projects, dissertations and environmental examination.

What benefits will you get for your work?
Together with the Certificate of Advanced Training at Moscow State University, you will receive valuable knowledge about the relevance and requirements for the use of biotests, practical experience in solving problems environmental control and determination of the hazard class of waste using the experimental method, skills in setting up experiments and processing the results, knowledge of the features organizing biotesting laboratories, creating conditions for maintaining test cultures ensuring their reliability, information about the necessary equipment and its modern manufacturers. You will be given a choice of standardized test cultures of two types of organisms, texts of methods biotesting developed at LETAP and registered with the Federal Fund for Ensuring Unity RF measurements. You will make new friends and colleagues with whom you will exchange experiences in the future. And, of course, you can count on our support and assistance as graduates of our program.

Main topics of the course:

•  Bioindication and biotesting as forms of biological environmental control
•  Regulatory requirements for the use of biotesting in environmental toxicity monitoring.
•  Requirements for an accredited biotesting laboratory, equipment, conditions for conducting and issuing biotesting protocols.
•  Features of sampling and preparation of samples for biotesting.
•  Practical algotesting (ecotoxicological assessment of the development of microalgae: Chlorella, Scenedesmus, Phaedactylum, Nephrochloris.)
•  The use of lower crustaceans as test species in biotesting (Daphnia magna. Ceriodaphnia affinis. Artemia salina).
•  Protozoa as test organisms in environmental control (Paramecium caudatum and Tetrahymena pyriformis)
•  Fundamentals of phytotesting for environmental control tasks.
•  Multisubstrate testing.
•  Possibilities of environmental biotests based on mammalian cells in vitro.

How are classes going?
Training is carried out using distance resources and an important cycle of 5-day practical face-to-face classes in an accredited laboratory of Moscow State University.