2012 Bio-Link Summer Fellows Forum
Event Details
Event Description
Each year Bio-Link Fellows from across the nation travel to the Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) in Berkeley, CA to learn about the latest practices in biotechnology education.
At the Bio-Link National Summer Fellows Forum, participants will learn new skills and techniques, examine and test exemplary curriculum models and course material, engage in dialogue about ethical, legal, and social issues in biotechnology and learn how to disseminate this information within their own regions. Fellows are expected to implement new strategies into their own programs, to lead regional staff development activities, and provide prompt response to follow-up surveys.
Community input: If you have ideas about sessions you would like to attend or present at the Summer Fellows Forum, please visit this blog post and post your ideas in the comments section.
Fifteen Conference Fellowships are available to attend the 14th annual weeklong intensive Summer Fellows Forum. The Bio-Link National Center will select individuals geographically to receive the Fellowship from the following categories: a community or technical college biotechnology instructor, a community or technical college math or science instructor, and a high school teacher. First consideration will be given to applicants who have not yet attended a Bio-Link Summer Fellows Forum or received the fellowship. However, consideration will be given to past Fellows who can demonstrate how this conference will provide necessary and unique value to their students, region and themselves.
BIO-LINK FELLOWSHIP
The Bio-Link Fellowship includes single occupancy accommodations in a Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) shared dormitory style suite (or "Commuter" if local) all CKC meals, as well as access to all workshops, materials, the Industry Tour and the Closing Dinner Banquet. Due to rising accommodation and meal costs any lodging charges associated with "no shows", late arrivals, early departures or unattended meals will become the responsibility of the Fellow and billed to the Fellow at the conclusion of the Forum. It is the Fellows' responsibility to fund all travel costs (including parking and shuttle fees) to and from the Forum.
All Fellowships have been awarded at this time.
SYNERGY-B2B FELLOWSHIP
The Synergy-Bridge to Biotechnology (B2B) Fellowship is offered to current or new participants in Bio-Link's B2B Learning Community who have received an invitation from Bio-Link. Synergy-B2B Fellowship Recipients will be expected to attend the B2B Pre-Conference which will begin on Monday, June 4 at 10:00am and ends at noon on Friday, June 8. This Fellowship Registration not only includes lodging for the night of Sunday, June 3 at the Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) and breakfast and lunch on Monday, June 4, but also lodging, all CKC meals, workshops and materials for the entire Fellows Forum (June 4-June 8).
For more information about the Pre-Conference or the B2B Learning Community, please contact Laurence Clement at lclement@ccsf.edu
The SYNERGY-B2B Registration Deadline was Friday, May 11, 2012.
Event Location(s)
Clark Kerr Campus (CKC)
Berkeley, CA
United States
Event Presentations
Next-generation Science Standards & Virtual Lab Simulations
Presenter: Sheryl Denker & Denmark Group: Mads Tvillingaard Bonde, Tobias Dam & Michael Bodekaer
Dr. Sheryl Denker, Senior Program Advisor for the BayBio Institute spoke about the project to develop the next generation of standards for K-12 science education.
Michael Bodekaer, Mads Bonde, and Tobias Aaby Dam presented Labster, http://www.labster.dk, an on-line environment for performing virtual labs.
Birds of a Feather Sessions
Earlier this spring, you shared lots of ideas when we asked for your suggestions for topics for the Summer Fellows Forum.
We think quite a few of these topics would make good Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions.
Here they are below:
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Using Kickstarter to fund projects
- Growing a program
- Quantifying "Good Hands"
- Social networks + mobile technologies
- Class management and teaching challenges
- Teaching & working in a regulated environment
- Developing state standards
If you would like to lead one of these discussions, either volunteer below or people know at room 204 when it's time for BOFs.
If you have other topics, please sign up in the comment section below and write down the topic that you'd like to lead.
Swimming Against the Tide: Teaching Math in Context
Presenters: Lisa Seidman & Jeff Rapp
Reference material:
- Lisa Seidman's power point presentation from the 2012 Southern California Biotechnology Conference
Project Based Learning in Biotech Courses
Presenters: Farah Movahedzadeh
Read the publication:
Project-Based Learning to Promote Effective Learning in Biotechnology Courses
Synergy Bridge to Biotech (B2B) Overview
Presenters: John Carrese & Laurence Clement
Drowning in Data? Help Solve a Murder Mystery
Presenter: Sandra Porter
Preparation:
Schedule:
Part I. Get Cn3D going
- Turn structures
- Move structures without turning
- Make structures bigger / smaller
- Change rendering style
- Change coloring style
- Show and hide parts of a structure
- Make color key
B. Become familiar with Cytochrome Oxidase C
- Look at chains - how many?
- try different coloring styles - what do you see?
- Look at active site
- rendering style tubes, coloring style element
- heme by a copper
- Look at metal bonds
- select copper at the active site
- Select by distance - 5 angstroms
- Show selected
- change rendering style to Ball n Stick
- Clear highlights
Part II. Talk about Bio-ITEST bioinformatics curriculum for high school students
NSF ITEST grant to NWABR, Digital World Biology, EdLab Group, in collaboration with Shoreline Community College
Combines career education with bioinformatics & DNA barcoding & bioethics
- Beginner strand: Using Bioinformatics: Genetic Testing
- breast cancer,
- genetic testing,
- bioethics
- comparing sequences
- breast cancer protein structure
- Advanced strand: Using Bioinformatics: Genetic Research
- Compare sequences,
- make phylogenetic trees,
- look at Cytochrome Oxidase & Murder,
- isolating DNA and sequencing
- DNA barcoding
Part III. Solve the mystery
- Divide into groups & get your structure - these are normal & mystery structures superimposed with VAST
- Work with your group to solve the mystery
- Present your results and theory to the class
Teaching STEM Concepts through Theater Workshop: Putting Steam into STEM
Surfing the Stem Cell Pipeline Workshop
Presenters: Edie Kaeuper, Carin Zimmerman, Golnar Afshar, George Cachianes, Bill Woodruff & Samantha Croft Farmer
The presenters will discuss their work using stem cell technology in their courses.
Slides from all the presentations are combined into the single presentation shown below.
Making a Wave: Why Community College Instructors Should Publish Their Work
Presenter: Linnea Fletcher
An increasing number of venues have appeared where community college instructors can begin to publish the findings from their grant projects and other types of educational research.
Dr. Fletcher will discuss why publications are important to your funding agency and the community as a whole and work with the attendees to discuss ideas for publications and the publication process.
To prepare for this workshop, you may wish to consult the following open access venues where you might publish:
Certification: A Wave or a Ripple?
Presenter: Jeanette Mowery will lead the discussion.
Certification has been a long-standing discussion topic in the biotech education world and we may be getting close to seeing it happen.
Three months ago, we polled our LinkedIn group to survey their thoughts on certification.
Twenty six people commented on both the positive and negative aspects of certificiation. You can read the comments here
What do you think about certification? Add your comments at our LinkedIn group or enter them below.
Steps toward certification:
1. Review definitions - certification vs. accredition vs. certificates
2. Identify core competencies
3. Decide on types of certifications
4. Decide on criteria
What are core competencies in biotech?
Lisa Seidman has put together a draft with some ideas - Thinking about Core Competencies in Biotech
We want input from the community.
STUDENTfacturED article in QED news
From Vivian Ngan-Winward, Salt Lake Community College:
Hello Everyone,
I wrote an article about STUDENTfacturED, the new student-run contract manufacturing organization that was launched Spring 2012 semester at Salt Lake Community College, and have posted the electronic file here as a reference for anyone who want to use it.
This article was published in the Fall 2011 issue of QED News, the American Society for Quality Education Division Newsletter.
I have subsequently expanded this article into a chapter that was published last month (May 2012): STUDENTfacturED: A Biomanufacturing Classroom Enterprise for Innovative Student Training in Quality & Regulations, in Advancing the STEM Agenda - Quality Improvement Supports STEM, Veenstra, Padro, Furst-Bowe (eds), American Society for Quality, Quality Press, Milwaukee, WI. ISBN 978-0-87389-839-3.
Hands-on Lab Workshop I: V3 Workflow, Stain Free Gels, Speedy Electrophoresis, and Western Transfers
Damon Tighe, Jeannie Spagnolo & Ingrid Miller from the Bio-Rad team will help participants practice their electrophoresis skills.
Opening Session III: Evaluation and measurement
Presenters: Candiya Mann (Bio-Link Evaluator), WSU, and Holly Kerby (MATC)
Bio-Link Evaluator Candiya Mann will talk about the National Survey and the landscape of bioscience programs today.
Opening session 1: Bio-Link Overview 2012
Presenters: Elaine Johnson, Bio-Link Director, and Bio-Link Co-PIs: Bart Gledhill, Linnea Fletcher, Sandra Porter and Lisa Seidman
The group will discuss Bio-Link's mission, review the past year, and present plans for the upcoming year.