Empowering Educators with Genome Editing and BioSCOPE

Welcome to the InnovATEBIO 2024 series of virtual ATE project talks.  This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program.  The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.

Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and discussion.

View the whole series of InnovATEBIO 2024 ATE project talks.

Talk 1: Empowering Educators with Genome Editing

Description: Our grant has navigated the peculiar period surrounding the pandemic and the subsequent post-pandemic landscape. Despite our biotech program contracting, our local region has witnessed remarkable growth in biotechnology. As we forge ahead, we conscientiously consider the evolving global landscape while remaining steadfast in fulfilling the original goals of our ATE grant. Alongside our ongoing college-level curriculum development, we strategically reallocated a portion of our funding to support a 4.5-day teachers' workshop in July 2023. This workshop equipped high school and middle school educators with a dynamic understanding of genome editing, laying the groundwork for training the next generation of scientists and innovators!

Speaker:  Elizabeth Boedeker (PI) St. Louis Community College, MO

Learn more about the Expanding the Bio-Bench - Targeted Genome Editing ATE project

Talk 2:  Introducing a BioSCOPE_IDEA

Description: BioSCOPE (Bioscience Supply Chain Operations Projects for Education) is a method of providing students with hands-on biomanufacturing training in which community college students comply with quality, regulatory, and documentation to manufacture buffers and reagents, and pour plates for biotech kits for use in high school biotech classes. Application of BioSCOPE and the manufacturing of other products serve as the foundation for the InnovATEBIO Supply Chain Hub. This presentation focuses on BioSCOPE, and the objectives, goals, activities, and outcomes we are working toward with our recently awarded NSF ATE grant (DUE #2300800) that will help more faculty facilitate BioSCOPE projects in their programs.

Speaker:  Terri Quenzer, Ph.D. (PI), MiraCosta College, CA

Learn more about the Expanding Hands-On Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Experience for Diverse Student Populations ATE project.