Community colleges play a vital role in preparing the highly skilled technical workforce needed to support the biotechnology industry. Community colleges offer students hands-on practical experience, certificates, and technical degrees. Students include high-school graduates, individuals changing ...
As a Seattle resident, this field in Walla Walla, Washington, an area famous for growing sweet onions, looked the way I expected.
Downtown Walla Walla was a different story. We visited Walla Walla last September and found the streets lined with winery tasting rooms. Walla Walla's wine industry grew from ...
In March 2019, members of Bio-Link and the AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center participated in a panel at the annual ABRF conference. The ABRF stands for the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities. These are the laboratories at Universities, companies, and research institutions, that provide core services like DNA sequencing, imaging, and ...
At this year's ABRF (Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities) annual meeting (March 23-26, 2019) Bio-Link is hosting session entitled " Community colleges: the new frontier for advanced biotechnology education and laboratory services." The goal of this session is to introduce ABRF members to Bio-Link and introduce Bio-Link members to ABRF because both groups have so many common goals that include biotech education, contract services, and technology interests.
Presenter: Dr. Linnea Fletcher, PhD, Director, AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center Austin Community College's next Generation Incubator is a cutting edge program with talent, lab space and equipment. Take a look at what their partnership with business is achieving today!
Presenters: Mary Slowinski and Abbe Kesterson AC2 Regional Bio-Link is building Communities of Practice for bioscience education, and at last year's Summer Fellows Forum the team recognized an increasing community interest in CSOs & incubators. The CoP leadership team decided to focus on CSO network ...
Biotech learning takes more than books, computers, classrooms and even teachers. To really know how to do something in the field of biotechnology, you need to have a chance to DO it. The AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center and the Bio-Link National Center know this, and have, over the years, worked ...
Tom Tubon leads a discussion of CSO strengths, programs and partnership strategies. Panelists: Sandra Porter (Bio-Link), Bryony Ruegg (Bio-Rad), and Abbe Kesterson (Bluegrass Community and Technical College), and James Guenther (Delgado Community College)
Panelists discussed: How to start a CSO using existing infrastructure; Using a CSO experience to prepare students for the biotech workforce, Where to find funding, The path from CSO to incubator, Opportunities for partnering with companies that can market some of the products produced in a CSO, and ...
Over the past few years, biotechnology education programs at community colleges have developed several types of innovative contract service operations (CSOs) that serve their local business communities. T he first examples of these contract service organizations were C ontract R esearch O rganizations (CROs), designed to prepare students for the ...
