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Favorite link of the week :

The American Society for Cell Biology Image library with photos of cells: http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/810

photo by: Tonya Anderson & Deanna Benson

This wonderful resource has photos of different cell types, cell processes, and cell components. It's a great place to send your cell culture students.The good news is that so many events are appearing on the horizon that we realized it was time for a weekly news report.... Read more

Webinar on writing ATE grants, May 24th

October might seem like a long time away, but if you're planning to apply for funds from the NSF ATE program, the best time to start writing is now. Dr. Linnea Fletcher will share things she's learned from her time as an NSF program officer in a webinar on May 24th.

Videos from AAAS 2011 now available on-line ... Read more

Listen to students and instructors in the Bridge to Biotech Program on Bio-Link's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/biolinkvideo. The videos can also be accessed here: https://sites.google.com/site/ccsflabassistant/testimonials

Consider subscribing to Bio-Link's YouTube Channel to receive an email notification when new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, go to Bio-Link's YouTube Channel and click on the subscribe button. Read more

New information has been posted on the Bridge to Biotech scale-up project:

Increasing diversity, access and success in Biotech programs

The Bridge to Biotech Curriculum

The Bridge to Biotech's Internship Program

Please visit the Bridge to Biotech Scale-Up project page for more information or contact Laurence Clement . Read more

SimplyHired.com is simply the best biotech job and career site I've ever see n

I found the best job searching site that I've ever seen today thanks to the folks at GenomeWeb . SimplyHired.com bills itself as a search engine for jobs and it's wonderful. It's the only site I've seen that has current salary data (look at the dates on graphs below - Feb 2nd, 2011!), shows the numbers of jobs by educational requirements, and really deals well with the multiple descriptions that are used for life sciences jobs.

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Effective program planning and workforce training require that biotechnology programs keep tabs on the hiring needs of their local employers. Sometimes getting these data and updating them in real time can be a challenge. Most biotech programs have industry advisory boards, but their boards might be narrowly based or unaware of other companys' hiring needs. State workforce departments might be able to provide information, but the variety of job descriptions can make data gathering difficult.

I was pleased to see that SimplyHired.com , the job search site I wrote about earlier, has some tools that address this... Read more

Bio-Link is launching the first phase of the Bridge to Biotech scale-up project through the Synergy Collaboratory. To find out more about City College of San Francisco's successful Bridge to Biotech program, which serves economically disadvantaged, minority students, and Bio-Link's efforts to disseminate the program to other colleges, visit our Bridge to Biotech project page on the Bio-Link website.

Bio-Link will begin working with its first cohort of adopting colleges on April 1 st , 2011. Colleges who are interested in participating in this project can complete the Needs Assessment Survey on the... Read more

Listen to what Lincoln High School biotech students are interested in:

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Last week, my colleagues and I were thrilled to receive copies of our newly published student laboratory manual, Laboratory Manual for Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences: The Basics.

* It was suggested that I write a brief blog to explain how this manual came to be written and for whom it is intended. I tried to write such a blog, but failed. This blog is not brief. Sorry.

The "why" of this lab manual lies in our program history. The Biotechnology Laboratory Technician Program at Madison Area... Read more

Theo chocolate is situated in a neighborhood called Fremont, in the city of Seattle, in the former Redhook brewery. I used to consult for Redhook back in my microbiology days when I had access to a -80?C freezer and a proper microscope, so I visited the building many times during the days of its former tenant.

These days the bar is gone, and there's a different smell in the air. Most of machinery, though, is surprisingly similar. The equipment is similar, in fact, to the equipment you'd find in many other kinds of biotech manufacturing facilities. There are giant... Read more