Past Events

Wed, Apr 6 2022
Developing the Regenerative Medicine Workforce

Regenerative medicine is a growing field that poses important advances across biomedical fields. The availability of a skilled, technical workforce for regenerative medicine research, clinical translation, and scaled manufacturing is crucial to this rapidly expanding field.

This free webinar showcases various perspectives from young professionals entering the field to veteran workers continuing their professional development to leaders of industry tasked with recruitment and retention. Three panels will focus on those experiences and will explore future expectations for the ... Read more

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Fri, Apr 1 2022

Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2022 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.

An interesting aspect of this week's talks is that both ATE projects seek to establish their own version of core facilities. Unlike most core facilities, which are found in ... Read more

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Sun, Mar 27 2022 to Wed, Mar 30 2022
ABRF logo

The ABRF Annual Meeting is an international program that provides timely updates on cutting-edge science and its execution in a shared resource/core facility setting. These meetings also offer informative and practical workshops as well as ample networking opportunities with academics, corporate, and technology partner colleagues.

Celebrating Science, Community, and Resiliency

Palm Springs, CA - March 27 - 30, 2022

Learn more and register

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Fri, Mar 11 2022
students in lab

Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2022 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.

In these talks, we'll learn about promoting more inclusive workplace practices and about working with industry to develop courses in genome editing.

Each talk will ... Read more

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Wed, Mar 9 2022

The Association for Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) will be holding a Virtual Town Hall. on Weds. March 9th, on our joint project for developing the core technology workforce. They will be discussing the grant application to establish a consortium with community colleges to develop programs to prepare students for careers in core facilities.

ABRF project Task Force members will share details on the benefits for Core facilities to participate and learn more about the interests and personnel needs of Core labs across the country. They will also discuss the opportunities ... Read more

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Fri, Mar 4 2022
CCSF Summer internship students

Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2022 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.

In these talks, we'll learn about students' career choices in Minnesota and about developing a pathway from high school to community college.

Each talk will be 20 ... Read more

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Fri, Feb 18 2022
cell culture

Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2022 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 Technology Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.

In this talk, we'll look behind the curtain at an ATE project in the process of being developed. This talk will describe how a partnership between the Association of ... Read more

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Fri, Feb 11 2022
gene editing

Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2022 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.

In these talks, we'll learn about educating technicians in CRISPR-based gene editing program and about developing a new biotech program at Harford Community College. ... Read more

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Fri, Feb 4 2022
Biotech student and instructor

Welcome to the second set of talks in the InnovATE BIO 2022 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.

In these second two talks, we'll learn about the Wistar Institute's Biomedical Technician Training program and about using a hackathon to develop ... Read more

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Wed, Feb 2 2022
American Association of Community Colleges

Has your college been an ATE or another NSF program grantee? Keep the momentum going! The ATE program encourages you to expand and build on your recent or current ATE grant efforts and/or move into a different area of technology. ATE-funded projects enable you to move up to larger scope of work or shift the focus of your work to another area of technician education. How do requirements and reviewer expectations change when you take the next step? Where can you get help to make your proposal more competitive? Learn the answers to these questions along with strategies, insider tips, and ... Read more

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