Life Sciences Workforce Collaborative (LSWC) invites you to its second Best Workforce Strategies Roundtable on April 24, bringing together industry association and workforce leaders to explore how the U.S. can build a stronger early career pipeline for the life sciences. The discussion will feature: Ying-Tsu Loh, Executive Director, BABEC: Bay Area Bioscience Education Community Angie McMurry, Director of Industry Engagement and Workforce Development, Ohio Life Sciences Shelly Ridder, Community Engagement and Workforce Development Manager, Oregon Life Sciences Ann Vogel, Senior Vice President ...
Talk 1: Careers in Water Speaker: Sheela Vemu, PhD, Waubonsee College, IL ATE project: Waubonsee Water Ways: Building Pathways to Careers in the Water Sector Talk 2: Advanced Cell Therapy Education Speaker: Nicole Bradley, PhD, San Jacinto College, TX ATE project: Advanced Cell Therapy Industry-Based Technical Education
Talk 1: Cell and Immunotherapy Speaker: Guy Hamilton, PhD, University of Washington, WA ATE project: Cell and Immunotherapy Hub Talk 2: Faculty-Industry Engagement Speakers: Terri Quenzer, PhD, MiraCosta College, CA and Project PI, Dominique Ingato ATE project: Building Strategic Faculty-Industry Engagement to Advance BioScience Workforce Development Presentation title: An Integrated Statewide BILT for Bioscience Workforce Development in California Description: The BILT (Business & Industry Leadership Team) model for industry advisories enhances employer engagement with college Career ...
With the theme, Innovating at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Collaboration, ABRF 2026 will bring together leaders across the scientific community to reflect on the lasting impact of our work, and to shape what comes next. From new technologies to transformative partnerships, the ABRF Annual Meeting is where discovery happens. It’s the must-attend event for Core facilities professionals in 2026. Learn More
Talk 1: Pathways from High School to College Speaker: Rebecca Bowers-Gentry, PhD, Miramar College, CA ATE project: Building Pathways from High School to College for Increased Biotechnology Career Readiness Description: Join us to discover how this project creates a clear pathway from high school to a biotechnology certificate and technician careers by combining early exposure, hands-on learning, and strong recruitment strategies. It supports student success through bridge programs and industry partnerships. Additional presenters: Shawn P Hurley (Co-Principal Investigator) shurley@sdccd.edu ...
Talk 1: Antibody Engineering Hackathons Speaker: Sandra Porter, PhD, Digital World Biology, WA ATE project: Developing Classroom-based Undergraduate Research Experiences in Antibody Bioengineering Talk 2: Breaking Down Barriers to Biotech Speaker: Katharine Marsh, PhD, Compton College, CA ATE project: Breaking Down Barriers to Biotech Careers
Talk 1: Building Community College Alumni Networks Speakers: Golnar Afshar, PhD, BioMADE, Julie Griffin, Co-PI, Johnston Community College ATE project: Increasing Student Retention and Recruitment through Alumni Programs, Speed Networking, and Industry Engagement Description: The objective of this project is to increase student retention and recruitment by fostering mutually beneficial relationships between students and alumni. The project involves the development and testing of a series of methods to directly engage alumni across three colleges located in different regions of the country ...
Talk 1: Nanopore DNA Sequencing Speaker: Joseph Oleniczak, PhD, Austin Community College, TX, Kasia Dinkeloo, Co-PI, University of Texas at Austin; Angela Consani, Co-PI, Bioscience Core Skills Institute; Anna Feitzinger, Co-PI, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center; Savanah Senn, Co-PI, Los Angeles Pierce College ATE project: Nanopore Sequencing Mini-Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences and Micro-Credentials for the Next Generation of Biotechnicians Description: This project expands workforce training in nanopore sequencing to prepare students for careers in the U.S ...
Talk 1: Authentic Research Projects Speaker: Aron Kamajaya, PhD, Los Angeles Pierce College, CA ATE project: IGD-LA, Raising Biotech Leaders in High Schools Through Innovative Mentoring and Industry Partnerships. Talk 2: Expanding the Wisconsin Bioscience Workforce Speaker: Oana Martin, PhD, Madison College, WI ATE project: STEM to Biotech Careers: Pathways to Expand the Wisconsin Bioscience Workforce
The LSWC is excited to launch its first LSWC Best Workforce Strategies Roundtable on January 30 with opening remarks from Caitlin Frazer, Executive Director of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB). Ms. Frazer will share an overview of the Commission’s workforce recommendations, recent policy developments, and insights from NSCEB’s national roadshows. The next panelists are John Balchunas, Workforce Director for The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals ( NIIMBL) and Linnea Fletcher, Executive Director of the InnovATEBIO National ...
Join Jared DeCoste and Dan Beaupré of Prism Immersive for an introduction to BioSuite Virtual—a mixed-reality training platform developed to expand access to high-quality, job-ready biomanufacturing education. Developed with industry and academic support and integrated with BioSciences Core Skills Institute (BCSI) credentials, BioSuite Virtual enables learners to perform end-to-end upstream bioprocesses—from bioreactor assembly and aseptic technique to fermentation monitoring and analysis—within an interactive virtual laboratory. Its innovative learning design contextualizes the development of ...
Come one, come all! Join us to connect with friends and learn about biotech teaching kits and have a chance to win each in the Great Giveaway Holiday Raffle. Win games and fun items! Check back later to see everything that will be part of the raffle! Look for prizes from: BABEC: Alginate pearls with lactase reagent kits BioBuilder: the BioBuilder book Carolina Biological: Taq Polymerase Production and Validation (2 kits) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: DNA Science (2 copies) and Genome Science (2 copies). Digital World Biology: Macromolecule card games, Cytochrome C and hemoglobin T shirts, and ...
Description: As the bioeconomy grows, so does the need for innovative and inclusive life science education. The BioBuilder Educational Foundation is a nonprofit founded at MIT that aims to meet this challenge by equipping high school students and teachers with engaging, project-based synthetic biology and biotechnology curricula. Since 2011, BioBuilder has reached over 87,000 students and teachers across 50 U.S. states and 80 countries. This talk will explore how BioBuilder addresses key chokepoints in the education-to-workforce pipeline: increasing student engagement in science, supporting ...
The event will take place over Zoom from 11 am - 3 pm Eastern time, Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 - Thursday, Nov 20th. The registration form must be filled out by Nov. 7th. Applicants will receive email notification of acceptance in the coming weeks, a calendar invitation, Zoom details, and a workshop agenda closer to the event. The workshop will be recorded and details will be shared with those registered. Tentative Program Day 1: Overview of the IEDB curation process, database structure, and content. The different database query features will be demonstrated and a research example will be ...
Trivium Consulting invites you to apply to participate in EDGE Institute A FREE, 12-month (January 2026-January 2027) opportunity for 30 community college CS/IT faculty, adjuncts, and administrators to benefit from professional development and support as they design competitive grant proposals for projects focused on AI, machine learning, quantum computing, biotech, or the advanced pathways leading to these domains, and submit them NSF solicitations such as CISE Future CoRe or IUSE: ITYC. Supports include 1-on-1 mentoring: a grant professional helps you ideate, craft, and edit your proposal ...
Several members of the InnovATEBIO community and the grant leadership team will be presenting at the NSF ATE Principal Investigators conference in October. InnovATEBIO will be holding a special affinity session on Friday, October 31st. If you plan to participate, please let us know by completing this form. That will help us with planning. For convenience, all sessions that involve community members as presenters are listed below. Visit the ATE PI Conference website InnovATEBIO community sessions Weds , Thurs , Fri Weds Weds, Oct. 29th 10:30 – 11:45 am Title: The Peer Review Power Hour - Review ...
ACUBE gathers biology educators from colleges and universities across the country and beyond for a highly dynamic and interactive conference. In line with ACUBE's mission, come together to incubate new and innovative teaching ideas, to discuss strategies to involve student research in the biology curriculum, to improve advising and mentoring skills, to become informed about and contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and to develop and recognize excellence in teaching. Participants present from the whole spectrum of subdisciplines within biology. Come to be inspired and leave ...
The Align Foundation is holding a tournament this year (2025-26) to create an improved PETase. Improved PETases could help address problems in recycling PET plastics. PETase is an enzyme from that breaks down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic. PET is often found in pop bottles and packaging. The source of PETase was Ideonella sakaiensis, a bacterium found near a Japanese recycling site for PET bottles ( Wikipedia). Students, faculty, startups, and scientists are welcome to participate, either as individuals or in teams. Registration is open until October 17th. You can download the flyer ...
Supported by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) program, HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technological education where secondary and postsecondary educators, counselors, industry professionals, trade organizations, and technicians can update their knowledge and skills. Charged with preparing America’s skilled technical workforce, the event focuses on the preparation needed by the existing and future workforce for companies in the high-tech sectors that drive our nation’s economy. Conference website: 2025 HI TEC conference Pre-conference ...
Faculty, industry scientists, and students are invited to apply to attend the 5th Antibody Engineering Hackathon, August 4-7th, 2025. This is a virtual event. There will also be a Pre-hackathon orientation Monday, July 14th, at 10 am PST on Zoom. Visit our website to learn about the projects and apply. This work is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program (DUE 2055036 and DUE 1901984). This event is free. Read about previous Hackathons: Porter, S., Bryans, M., Vemu, S., Kamajaya, A., Ives, F., Dillman, A., Lannan, E., Mann, C., & Smith, T ...
