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 ...
A crucial part of building activities for students is choosing a topic that will be engaging and foster the kind of interest that will make students want to take the activity to new heights. The Antibody Hackathon team did just that in choosing to build activities and teaching protocols around ...
The presentation described hackathons and how hackathons can be used for curriculum development and community building in biotech and emerging technologies. Two hackathon projects were discussed: Antibodies and AI, and NISTCHO. Several resources have been created through this project and are ...
The Fourth Virtual Hackathon for Developing CURES in Antibody Engineering will be held August 5-8th, 2024 Visit our website to learn about the projects and apply. This work is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program ( DUE 2055036). This event is free and mostly virtual. Read about previous Hackathons: Porter, S., Bryans, M., Vemu, S., Kamajaya, A., Ives, F., Dillman, A., Lannan, E., Mann, C., & Smith, T. (2023). Igniting Creativity: Hackathons for Developing Undergraduate Research Projects in Antibody Engineering. Journal of Advanced ...
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 speakers this week will talk about their experiences with using hackathons to develop undergraduate research projects around antibody engineering and a labor market and skills analysis of ...
The 3rd Hackathon for Developing CURES in Antibody Engineering will take place August 7-10th, 2023. Information about last year's hackathon can be found at Antibody Engineering Hackathon August 2022 This work is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program ( DUE 2055036). This event is free but you are expected to make a time commitment of about 8 hours a day and attend an orientation session before the event. As a Hackathon participant, you will: work in a team to research and develop antibody-related student research projects, learn about ...
The Antibody Engineers NSF ATE project has published its first research project from the January 2022 Hackathon in QUBES. The project guides students through the process of investigating whether different commercial antibodies are likely to work against SARS-CoV-2 variants. In the main research component, students use NextStrain.org and GenBank to ...
The 2nd Virtual Hackathon for Developing CURES in Antibody Engineering will take place August 8-11th, 2022. Apply today! More information can be found at Antibody Engineering Hackathon August 2022 This work is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program ( DUE 2055036). This event is free. As a Hackathon participant, you will: work in a team to research and develop antibody-related student research projects, learn about antibodies and how they can be engineered Learn about the use of antibodies in diagnostics, research, and therapeutics ...
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 undergraduate research ...
SARS-CoV-2 remains a relevant topic for bio database development. According the the NAR database compendium, and our research, at least 25 SARS-CoV-2 data resources are available to the public. Their Immunoprofiling: How it works specialized topics include immunology, genomics, RNA, proteins, drugs, and SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 literature. This post explores the CoV-AbDab database as a resource for studying how antibodies neutralize the virus to protect against serious disease.
We are pleased to announce the 1st Virtual Hackathon for Developing CURES in Antibody Engineering. This event will take place January 13-16th, 2022. We are extending the application date - Applications are due by November 19th. This work is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program ( DUE 2055036) and is being carried out in collaboration with the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy. This event is free. Participants will work together in teams to develop research projects for undergraduate students studying biotechnology or related topics ...
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 ...
This Friday, we will have a guest speaker from the University of Washington, Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease, share basic concepts around vaccines. This lecture will help us prepare for a later discussion when we dive into vaccines against COVID-19 in greater detail. Speaker: Dr. David Koelle, Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease, University of Washington. Dr. Koelle studies virology and immunology, along with viral oncogenesis, tumor immunotherapy, practical vaccinology issues such as adjuvants and delivery systems, and immune-mediated adverse drug reactions. The core ...
In this webinar, we will introduce basic concepts in immunology and demonstrate how to use the Immune Epitope Database to investigate immunity to COVID-19 and gain insights into key requirements for developing antibodies and vaccines to COVID-19. We will also present an activity that students can use for a research project and investigate immunity to whatever they choose. Speaker: Dr. Sandra Porter, Shoreline Community College, Digital World Biology, and InnovATE BIO. Read more about B cell and T cell receptors: BCR is the new Antibody, TCR is still a T Cell Receptor This work was funded by an ...
Performing assays and testing samples is fundamental to all biotechnology workplaces, from basic research laboratories to large-scale production facilities. With the COVID-19 pandemic, diagnostic assays have entered the limelight. Last week, we discussed the use of molecular diagnostics to identify the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. This week, we will talk about testing for the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 proteins. The presence of anti-SARS-COV-2 antibodies tells us if a person has been infected. In this webinar, we will introduce basic assay principles so that you and your students can ...
Many of the drugs and other products that biotechnology companies produce are based on monoclonal antibodies. Biotechnicians who know how to work with and purify these materials are in demand.
Recently, the Northeastern Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative (NBC2) made new curriculum modules available that include procedures for the upstream and ...
