Regenerative medicine is emerging in biomedical research, clinical translation, and scaled biomanufacturing. To best prepare their students to join this workforce, community college and baccalaureate bioscience programs should review their curriculums to ensure this important field is being incorporated. In this webinar you will find the following: Regenerative Medicine Approvals Need a Workforce – Jim DeKloe, Solano Community College Incorporating Gene Therapy Skills and Knowledge into Existing Courses and Programs – Margaret Bryans, Montgomery County Community College Immunofluorescence in
NSF invests in fundamental research to support biotechnology and advance the U.S. bioeconomy across the sciences and engineering. Presented by NSF's Bioeconomy Coordinating Committee and NSF Directorates, this distinguished lecture series brings in individual speakers and panels representing the science and technology funded by a Directorate every month. Speakers present on research and broader impacts in areas associated with biotechnology and the bioeconomy that are of interest broadly across the foundation. On May 13th, 2021 Dr. Linnea Fletcher, InnovATEBIO PI; Dr. Thomas Tubon, Co-PI; and
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
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 through the supply chain. Molecular diagnostics to identify and manage threats in agriculture lag behind diagnostic applications in the medical sciences, despite deep connections between agriculture and human health. In this webinar, I describe the diagnostic biotechnology used at the National Agricultural
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
Event Date(s): Friday, January 15, 2021 - 03:00pm to 04:30pm EST Event Details: Join the scientists at Bio-Rad Laboratories for a discussion about the technology that just won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry: CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. In this webinar, Bio-Rad scientists will discuss the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 system in nature, how it works in a gene editing scenario, and the exciting and truly broad range of applications on this technology. Learn more about Bio-Rad’s resources for teaching about CRISPR at www.bio-rad.com/teachCRISPR(link is external) SPEAKERS: Research and Development
Event Details: 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
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. Read more about pandemic-inspired innovation at Laney College: How can a college biotech program survive the pandemic? Laney students bring synthetic biology
As you adapt to new and changing teaching environments, you may be wondering how you can best offer your students the benefit of laboratory experiences. Join us for this webinar with Bio-Rad Explorer curriculum specialists to discuss how to adapt Bio-Rad’s classroom kits to achieve your teaching goals this fall. Learn about Bio-Rad’s Solutions for Socially-Distanced Classrooms SPEAKERS: Tamica Stubbs and Leigh Brown, Curriculum Training Specialists, Bio-Rad Laboratories In this first webinar of our Fall series, Leigh and Tamica will discuss the following: Classroom lab experiences that can
