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ATE Project Talks: Incorporating Course-Based Research and Developing Genome Editing Coursework

Fri, Feb 10 2023

Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2023 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.

Our two speakers will talk about the question of why dogs are more social than wolves and how they implemented a course-based research projects to have students investigate ... Read more

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Agbiotech and St. Louis Community College

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EA Stewart
St. Louis Community College logo

Agriculture--the word invokes fields of wheat, vines of tomatoes, bales of hay--doesn't it? But agriculture is much more than that today, and the field of AgBiotech is growing so fast there are not enough graduates to fill the job openings. These jobs can be found in labs, or at a desk with a computer, and don't involve weeding. For example, according to the attached file from KCUR 89.3/NPR, Corteva Agriscience has 100's of jobs, and many do not require a four-year degree. The article also says that agricultural economists at Purdue University have analyzed online jobs in... Read more

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ATE Project Talks: Broadening Ag Science biotech and developing a biomanufacturing workforce

Fri, Apr 15 2022
Agriculture begins with soil
Ag Biotech students at Future Farmers of America
Photo credit: Ying-Tsu Loh

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 the talk this week, we will learn about one project focused around agricultural ... Read more

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ATE Project Talks: Developing Training for Inclusive Lab Environments and Developing Genome Editing Coursework

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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Agricultural Genomics: The Rise of Genomes

Doreen Ware, Ph.D., Molecular Biologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

Breeding for 2050 and beyond will require designing plants for new environments and preparing them for new diseases, while they are still offshore ... View video

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Emerging Trends in Agricultural Diagnostics

Zach Bateson, Ph.D., Research Scientist, National Agricultural Genotyping Center, Fargo, ND

Pests and pathogens account for up to 30% of the annual losses in food crops worldwide. All agricultural commodities are negatively impacted by pests, either directly in the field or indirectly ... View video

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Clones, Carbon and Climate Change: The Epigenetics of Oil Production

Rob Martienssen, Ph.D, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

The African oil palm is the most efficient oil bearing crop, but demand for edible oils and biofuels, combined with sustainability concerns over dwindling rainforest reserves, has led to intense pressure to improve oil ... View video

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Clones, Carbon and Climate Change: The Epigenetics of Oil Production

Rob Martienssen, Ph.D, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY The African oil palm is the most efficient oil bearing crop, but demand for edible oils and biofuels, combined with sustainability concerns over dwindling rainforest reserves, has led to intense pressure to improve oil palm yield. The fruit abnormality, mantled, is a somaclonal variant arising from tissue culture that drastically reduces yield—and has largely halted efforts to clone elite hybrids for oil production. Using epigenome wide association studies, we found that loss of methylation of a LINE retrotransposon related to rice Karma predicts mantled fruit. Identifying “bad Karma” in cloned plantlets ... Read more
Presented at: Agricultural Biotechnology: Emerging Technologies and Insights
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Agricultural Genomics: The Rise of Genomes

Doreen Ware, Ph.D., Molecular Biologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Breeding for 2050 and beyond will require designing plants for new environments and preparing them for new diseases, while they are still offshore. Key to this effort will be access to high-quality genomes and annotations for agricultural species and their pests. The genomes of many plants have been sequenced over the past decade, but these are usually limited to one reference assembly. The available genomes are often fragmented and missing complex repeat regions—and so lack sufficient high-level representation of genes and functional ... Read more
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Teaching AgBiotech and Exploring AgBiotech Careers

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Sandra Porter
image credit: FDA
Click the image to download the new AgBiotech curriculum supplement from the FDA

Laurie Issel-Tarver from Ohlone College sent me a link to this new AgBiotech curriculum resource from the FDA. This was jointly developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). It's called " Science and the Food Supply " - Exploring Food Agriculture and Biotechnology - Teacher's Guide for High School Classrooms. You can download it for free.

This curricular supplement contains five modules:

1. Foundations of Agriculture

2. Genetic Engineering in Food... Read more

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