2017 Bio-Link Summer Fellows Forum
Event Details
Event Description
Celebrating Our Past - Designing Our Future
Registration Now Closed
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. Come join us for our 19th Annual Summer Fellows Forum.
At the Bio-Link National Summer Fellows Forum, participants learn new skills and techniques, examine and test exemplary curriculum models and course materials, discuss 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.
The BIO-LINK FELLOWSHIP
Twenty Conference Fellowships are available this June to attend the 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, or a high school teacher. First consideration will be given to applicants who have not yet attended a Bio-Link Summer Fellows Forum or received a fellowship. Consideration will also be given to past Fellows who can demonstrate how this conference will provide necessary and unique value to their students, region and themselves.
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.
PLEASE NOTE: The CKC is NOT a Hotel and you will assigned a Suite Mate, and although you have your own bedroom you will share a bathroom. Therefore, please be advised that Spouses, Partners, Friends, Children, etc. cannot be accommodated at the CKC.
The HOTEL DURANT is within close proximity to the CKC and more information can be found at www.hoteldurantberkeley.com (link is external) or you can use GOOGLE to locate other hotel options. Bio-Link does not endorse any hotels.
The Fellowship Application Process is now CLOSED. Fellowship awardees have been notified via email. If you have questions ragarding this process, contact Lisa Huffman.
OPEN REGISTRATION
Individuals interested in attending the Forum and can provide their own funding (no Fellowship) for the Conference Registration Fee and all travel costs, must register online with the National Bio-Link Center by using the on-line registration link. The Bio-Link OPEN REGISTRATION includes single occupancy accommodations in a Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) shared dormitory style suite (or "Commuter" if local) and all CKC meals, as well as access to all workshops, materials, and the Closing Dinner Banquet.
PLEASE NOTE: The CKC is NOT a Hotel and you will assigned a Suite Mate, and although you have your own bedroom you will share a bathroom. Therefore, please be advised that Spouses, Partners, Friends, Children, etc. cannot be accommodated at the CKC.
The HOTEL DURANT is within close proximity to the CKC and more information can be found at www.hoteldurantberkeley.com (link is external) or you can use GOOGLE to locate other hotel options. Bio-Link does not endorse any hotels.
OPEN REGISTRATION process is now CLOSED. Please contact Lisa Huffman at lhuffman@biolink.ucsf.edu if you missed the deadline and have the funds to participate in the Summer Fellows Forum immediately.
Forum Fees
$825.00 Single Occupancy Registration Fee (includes CKC shared suite lodging and all CKC meals, workshops and materials)
$500.00 Commuter Registration Fee (NO lodging - includes all CKC meals, workshops and materials)
$75.00 CKC Parking Permit (5 days/4 nights)
Payment must be made by check (sorry, no credit cards or PAYPAL accepted) and in advance to the National Center by Friday, May 26, 2017.
Event Location(s)
Clark Kerr Campus
2601 Warring Street
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
Event Presentations
Restriction Challenge
Presenters: Carole Twichell and Bridgette Kirkpatrick
Take a look at a great classroom activity/exam question about restriction enzymes. The learning objectives for the activity are:
•Proper use of restriction endonucleases
•Tying restriction fragmentation to electrophoresis
•Critical Thinking
•Use of internet resourcesStudents will need to develop strategies using only restriction endonucleases and electrophoresis to solve plasmid cloning problems.
Next Generation Chromatography & Scale Up to Process Chromatography Session
Presenters: Mark Snyder & Ingrid Miller / Bio-Rad Laboratories
Plasmid Cloning & Gene Editing Session
Presenters: Bridgette Kirkpatrick & Carole Twichell
Description: We will present a classroom activity that can be used to teach plasmid cloning and the use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system for gene editing. The activity uses paper models to illustrate the action of restriction endonucleases, ligation, and recognition and cleavage by CRISPR/Cas9. Participants will receive materials and instructions to take back to their institutions.
Opening Session I: Welcome & Overview
Presenters: Elaine Johnson, Bio-Link Director and the Bio-Link Leadership Team: Linnea Fletcher, Sandra Porter, Lisa Seidman, Jeanette Mowery & Bart Gledhill
The Reproducibility Crisis: A Call to Action for Bio-Link
Presenters: Jeanette Mowery and Lisa Seidman
Agenda
•Introduction; reproducibility in science, a contemporary hot topic •The causes of irreproducibility that everyone talks about •The causes of irreproducibility that we talk about – but they don’t •Bio-Linker’s contributions to the discussion •A call to action – what comes next?How to Build a Start-Up -- The Steve Blank Lean Launchpad Session
Presenter: James Guenther 6/7/2017
This session is intended to give an overview of the process used by many entrepreneurs, and pioneered by Steve Blank. Each section of the "business model canvas" will be discussed and related back to new business startups or how a biotechnology program is a really a small business startup. Participants are encouraged to come with business or product ideas that can be explored in the session.
Presented 6/7/2017
AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center: Recap and Welcome
Presenters: Bridgette Kirkpatrick, Deborah Davis, Rob Hatherill, Sandra Porter and Linnea Fletcher
Authentic Assessment in Biotechnology Session
Presenter: Ellyn Daugherty
Learn how to use hard and soft (laboratory) skills and authentic assessment to prepare students to enter adult bioscience workplace experiences. Since 1995, The San Mateo Biotechnology Career Pathway (SMBCP) has placed over 1000 students in paid and unpaid internships at one of their 25 local biotechnology partner facilities. SMBCP courses prepare students of all academic levels to enter industry and academic biotech lab facilities and function as productive individuals and team members. Part of the success of the SMBCP program is that students are evaluated in methods similar to those in industry. This session will share several examples of authentic assessment including skills testing, generation of product, and evaluation of participation and documentation methods.
Presented 6/7/2017
Teaching for a Regulated Workplace - Responding to Regulatory Changes and Workplace Needs
Presenter: Vivian Ngan-Winward, PhD, CMQOE
The in vitro diagnostics sector should be very familiar to the Bio-Link community with products such as test kits and analyzer instrumentation. Changing regulations now impacting this sector mean companies will need to adapt their quality systems and increase internal competencies. The salient regulatory changes will be presented and those where biotech educators may be able to work with companies to address will be highlighted. In addition, industry-critical career tracks alternative to the traditional research and manufacturing paths and how biotech educators can prepare students for these will be presented.
Presented 6/6/2017
Single cell, city-scale, and inter-planetary genomics
Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D. invited presentation.