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Our green lab tip articles can help biologists to reduce laboratory waste, use green chemistry, conserve water and save energy.

How to switch from plastic to glass Petri dishes in your lab: an interview with Elicia Preston of the UPENN Perelman School of Medicine

Nicole Kelesoglu August 5, 2019

Our thanks today to green lab champion Elicia Preston who is a research scientist and lab manager in John Murray’s Lab in the Genetics Department at the Perelman School of Medicine! The following interview and their accompanying “how to” video provide the information you need to use glass petri plates to reduce plastic waste in your laboratory.

A Video to Inspire more Green Laboratories

Nicole Kelesoglu January 4, 2018

Watch this video with a quick green lab tips animation, and an interview with members of the TU Dresden "iGEM Goes Green" team by the life science reagents company, New England Biolabs.

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