Doing Biotech at Home

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Merritt College makes microscope kits!

By: 
Feather Ives
Assembling kits

Advanced microscopy trainee and technician Dante Malone assisted program director Gisele Giorgi with assembling home kits for our 57 microscopy trainees. These trainees will have one of 16 of our introductory Meiji scopes for a month at home. It’s not the same as being in our awesome microscopy lab, but the show must go on. These 57 trainees showed up during a pandemic to get training in microscopy, histotechniques, and genomics. This is your technician workforce, folks.

The kit assembly line Kit components Kits ready to go

I’m proud to report this current cohort is more... Read more

Biotechnology classes at-home edition - MiraCosta

By: 
Sandra Porter

Note : This article was written by Daria Sharko, a biotech student at MiraCosta College in California. Ms. Sharko contributed the photos as well.

Having biotechnology classes during the pandemic took an unexpected turn in Fall 2020. As an international student of the AS biotechnology program at MiraCosta College, I was preparing myself for a challenging atmosphere of COVID-19-impacted classes on campus. At least, the full PPE and the do-not-breath, do-not-touch ambiance of strict safety restrictions were anticipated. My experience with virtual labs and simulations last semester when colleges and students had to adapt to the rapidly... Read more

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InnovATEBIO Webinar Fall 2020 #3: Expansion of Online Biology & Biotech Course Delivery during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fri, Nov 20 2020

At the onset of the Bioscience Technician Expansion Project (Grant #1800850), the investigators (P.I. Justin Tickhill and Co-P.I. Jason Tucker) from North Central State College in Mansfield, Ohio were looking at ways to meet students in a distance format. Their original goal was the pursuit of a “one course, one night” hybrid model to allow working students an opportunity to upskill in the biotechnology industry. The training received by the faculty proved invaluable during the COVID 19 pandemic shift to online courses. The researchers had gained major insight in the process of online ... Read more

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InnovATEBIO Webinar Fall 2020 #2: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Biohacking: Using At-Home Biotech Kits in a Remote Learning Era

Fri, Oct 16 2020

Professor Doug Bruce from Laney College will talk about implementing at-home biotech kits in his introductory biotech lab class. Doug adopted kits and curriculum from The Odin, a Bay Area biotech company that sells “biohacking" kits, and provided students with all the equipment they would need to complete the labs at home. In addition, Doug will show how his students are using an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) for collecting data.

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