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An interview with Elizabeth Clawson, UW-Madison, a Biotech Program graduate from Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin.

The image shows Ms. Clawson, a graduate of Madison College, working in the Biological Safety Cabinet. In this photo, she was getting ready to stimulate the cells with fresh media and extract metabolites from them two hours later. Her next day would be dedicated to separating the extracts through the HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography machine) and Mass Spec (Mass Spectrometry).

1. Where did you attend college and what degees (or certificates) did you complete?

I have a B.S.... Read more

This article was written and contributed by Lisa Proulx , Public Information Officer, Great Bay Community College

The Life Sciences Department of Great Bay Community College offers programs in three specialized areas in Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. Information is available at https://www.greatbay.edu/life-sciences/ Great Bay Community College is part of the Community College System of New Hampshire, a public system of higher education consisting of seven colleges in Berlin, Claremont, Laconia, Concord, Manchester, Nashua, and Portsmouth.

Graduates of Great Bay Community College are working in the research labs where vaccines for Covid-19... Read more

Article contributed by Dr. Shelly Thai, Glendale Community College, CA, and Andreh Fiterz, PerkinElmer, Photo credit: Ken Allard/El Vaquero News

From Dr. Thai:

I'm a Biology faculty at Glendale Community College in California.

A few years ago, I developed a research course, Biology 298 - Undergraduate Research in Microbiology and Molecular Biology, to give undergraduates at our community college authentic, an opportunity to do hands-on research experience and also practice the associated critical thinking, analytical, and technical skills.

Many of our students transfer to the university and have been able to obtain either student research positions... Read more

Please note : This article was written by Eric Devlin, Montgomery County Community College. Mr. Devlin also contributed the photos. The photos and text in this article are used with his permission.

Montgomery County Community College Biotechnology Program alumni are among the researchers on the front line against the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ve helped develop an antibody that’s used to detect the virus in patient testing samples.

Alumni Amber Sawyer, Sean Heron and Seethal Meda are employees at the Limerick Township-based Rockland Immunochemicals Inc. , which earlier this year, developed the Anti-SARS-CoV Nucleocapsid (N) Protein... Read more

Please note : This article was written by Valencia College. The photos and text in this article are used with permission from Valencia College , Florida.

From the moment Naia Kasik walks through the doors of Applied Ingenuity Diagnostics, she knows exactly what she has to do as she comes face-to-face with the COVID-19 virus. She puts on her personal protective equipment, her lab coat, glasses, gloves and an N-95 mask before she sits down to begin a series of testing procedures with RNA/DNA sequences.

Naia, a Biotechnology Laboratory Services student at Valencia’s... Read more