Opening session 1: Bio-Link Overview 2012

Presenters:  Elaine Johnson, Bio-Link Director, and Bio-Link Co-PIs: Bart Gledhill, Linnea Fletcher, Sandra Porter and Lisa Seidman

The group will discuss Bio-Link's mission, review the past year, and present plans for the upcoming year.

 

Opening Session II: Coming trends in NSF ATE funding

Bio-Link Co-PI Linnea Fletcher will interview Celeste Carte, Director of the National Science Foundation ATE Program.

What is the National Science Foundation looking for in this year's proposals?  What factors will be helpful for a successful grant application?

Opening Session III: Evaluation and measurement

Presenters:  Candiya Mann (Bio-Link Evaluator), WSU, and Holly Kerby (MATC)

Bio-Link Evaluator Candiya Mann will talk about the National Survey and the landscape of bioscience programs today.

 

 

Holly Kerby will give a sneak preview of her Wednesday session.  You can learn more about about putting theatre techniques into science teaching here at Fusion Science Theatre

 

As a side note, we would like attendees to reflect on creative ways to meaure sucess for biotech programs and other ATE funded projects.

Every year we survey Summer Fellows attendees to assess the impact of joining the Bio-Link network on student outcomes.  Some of these impacts are indirect.  We ask about your learning experience with the idea that it correlates with benefits for your students.  Sometimes the impacts are direct.  For example, a connection with Bio-Link helped one community member make a connection with the National Lab at UC Berkeley.  Now, he brings students there every summer to do research with faculty.

We're attaching a DRAFT version of the follow-up survey for your review.  We would like you to reflect on these questions during the conference and think about what it means to you to be part of the Bio-Link community.  The final survey will include some new questions but this draft version should help stimulate your thoughts so you'll be ready with answers when it's time for the survey.

If you would like to provide examples of ways that Bio-Link has impacted your students, we'd appreciate seeing them in the comment section below.
 

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Hands-on Lab Workshop I: V3 Workflow, Stain Free Gels, Speedy Electrophoresis, and Western Transfers

Damon Tighe, Jeannie Spagnolo & Ingrid Miller from the Bio-Rad team will help participants practice their electrophoresis skills.

Hands-On Lab Workshop II: Biotic & Abiotic Factors Affecting the Flowering of Mimululs Aurantiacus & Assemblage of Communities of Bacteria & Yeast within the Nectar of these Model Islands Lab Workshop

Pat Chandler Seawell and Matthew Knope will present a hands-on lab on bacteria, yeast, and flowers.  

For background, you want to check out this video and handouts from last year's workshop. 

Meet and Greet Poster Session

Two waves of Bio-Link Fellows present their programs via posters and hand-outs.

Use the "Add new comment" link to introduce yourself and post a sentence or two about your project or interests.  

 

From Vivian Ngan-Winward, Salt Lake Community College:

Hello Everyone,

I wrote an article about STUDENTfacturED, the new student-run contract manufacturing organization that was launched Spring 2012 semester at Salt Lake Community College, and have posted the electronic file here as a reference for anyone who want to use it.

This article was published in the Fall 2011 issue of QED News, the American Society for Quality Education Division Newsletter.

I have subsequently expanded this article into a chapter that was published last month (May 2012):  STUDENTfacturED: A Biomanufacturing Classroom Enterprise for Innovative Student Training in Quality & Regulations, in Advancing the STEM Agenda - Quality Improvement Supports STEM, Veenstra, Padro, Furst-Bowe (eds), American Society for Quality, Quality Press, Milwaukee, WI.  ISBN 978-0-87389-839-3.

If you would like a copy of this chapter, please e-mail me at:  vivian.ngan-winward@slcc.edu

                        Vivian

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Certification: A Wave or a Ripple?

Presenter:  Jeanette Mowery will lead the discussion.

Certification has been a long-standing discussion topic in the biotech education world and we may be getting close to seeing it happen.

 

 

Three months ago, we polled our LinkedIn group to survey their thoughts on certification.

Twenty six people commented on both the positive and negative aspects of certificiation.  You can read the comments here 

What do you think about certification? Add your comments at our LinkedIn group or enter them below.

 

 

Steps toward certification:

1.  Review definitions - certification vs. accredition vs. certificates

2.  Identify core competencies

3.  Decide on types of certifications

4.  Decide on criteria

 

What are core competencies in biotech?

Lisa Seidman has put together a draft with some ideas - Thinking about Core Competencies in Biotech

We want input from the community.

Making a Wave: Why Community College Instructors Should Publish Their Work

Presenter:  Linnea Fletcher

An increasing number of venues have appeared where community college instructors can begin to publish the findings from their grant projects and other types of educational research.

Dr. Fletcher will discuss why publications are important to your funding agency and the community as a whole and work with the attendees to discuss ideas for publications and the publication process.

To prepare for this workshop, you may wish to consult the following open access venues where you might publish:

CBE Life Sciences Education

PLoS Biology Education Series

 

Synergy Bridge to Biotech (B2B) Overview

Presenters: John Carrese & Laurence Clement

 

Background reading on the Bridge to Biotechnology

Birds of a Feather Sessions

Earlier this spring, you shared lots of ideas when we asked for your suggestions for topics for the Summer Fellows Forum.   
 

We think quite a few of these topics would make good Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions.

Here they are below:

• Using Kickstarter to fund projects

• Growing a program

• Quantifying "Good Hands"

• Social networks + mobile technologies

• Class management and teaching challenges

• Teaching & working in a regulated environment

• Developing state standards

 

If you would like to  lead one of these discussions, either volunteer below or people know at room 204 when it's time for BOFs.  

 

If you have other topics, please sign up in the comment section below and write down the topic that you'd like to lead.

 

Surfing the Stem Cell Pipeline Workshop

Presenters: Edie Kaeuper, Carin Zimmerman, Golnar Afshar, George Cachianes, Bill Woodruff & Samantha Croft Farmer

The presenters will discuss their work using stem cell technology in their courses.
Slides from all the presentations are combined into the single presentation shown below.
 

Teaching STEM Concepts through Theater Workshop: Putting Steam into STEM

Presenter: Holly Kerby, MATC
 

Learn more about Fusion Science Theatre

Hands-On Lab Workshop III: New, Improved rAmylase Lab Workshop

Presenter: Ellen Daugherty

 

Drowning in Data? Help Solve a Murder Mystery

Presenter: Sandra Porter
 

Preparation:  

Get Cn3D here:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3dinstall.shtml  and install it on your computer.

 

Schedule:  

Part I.  Get Cn3D going

A.  Download 1NAJ.cn3

• Turn structures

• Move structures without turning

• Make structures bigger / smaller

• Change rendering style

• Change coloring style

• Show and hide parts of a structure

• Make color key

B.  Become familiar with Cytochrome Oxidase C

• Look at chains - how many?
  • try different coloring styles - what do you see?

• Look at active site
  • rendering style tubes, coloring style element
  • heme by a copper

• Look at metal bonds
  • select copper at the active site
  • Select by distance - 5 angstroms
  • Show selected
  • change rendering style to Ball n Stick
  • Clear highlights

 

Part II.  Talk about Bio-ITEST bioinformatics curriculum for high school students

NSF ITEST grant to NWABR, Digital World Biology, EdLab Group, in collaboration with Shoreline Community College

Combines career education with bioinformatics & DNA barcoding & bioethics

• Beginner strand:  Using Bioinformatics:  Genetic Testing
  • breast cancer,
  • genetic testing,
  • bioethics
  • comparing sequences
  • breast cancer protein structure

• Advanced strand:  Using Bioinformatics:  Genetic Research
  • Compare sequences,
  • make phylogenetic trees,
  • look at Cytochrome Oxidase & Murder,
  • isolating DNA and sequencing
  • DNA barcoding

• Exploring Careers

 

Part III.  Solve the mystery

• Divide into groups & get your structure - these are normal & mystery structures superimposed with VAST

• Structure A

• Structure B

• Structure C

• Structure D

• Structure E

• Structure F

• Work with your group to solve the mystery

• Present your results and theory to the class

 

Q R You? – Integrating Social & Mobile Technology Into Academia Workshop

Presenter: Edgar Troudt
 

Project Based Learning in Biotech Courses

Presenters: Farah Movahedzadeh

 

Read the publication:  

Project-Based Learning to Promote Effective Learning in Biotechnology Courses

Swimming Against the Tide: Teaching Math in Context

Presenters: Lisa Seidman & Jeff Rapp

 

Reference material:  

• Lisa Seidman's power point presentation from the 2012 Southern California Biotechnology Conference

Navigating the Waves: Web Publishing, Social Media & Biotech Careers - Sessions for Program leaders, Bio-Link Fellows, and Synergy B2B participants

Presenters: Sandra Porter & Patricia Delich

 

Addtional References:  

• Connect with Bio-Link Through Social Media - by Patricia Delich

• The Bio-Link User Guide

• Sprucing up your program pages

•   LinkedIn
•   Facebook
•   RSS
•   Twitter
•   Yahoo Listserv

 

We will have two sessions that are slightly different:

One session is more specific to the needs of Bio-Link program members and partners. The other session is more specific to Bridge adopters.

 

Overview

I.  When do you need to log in?

 

      • ❑ create or edit content

 

      • ❑ Directories

 

      • ❑ Bridge to Biotech

 

      • ❑ Courses in a Box

 

II. What happens if you forget your log in name or password?   

 

III. How does the Bio-Link web site work?

 

     • ❑ CMS - content management system

 

     • ❑ lots of modules

 

     • ❑ special fields

 

     • ❑ database queries

     

     • ❑ Publishing - visible and invisible content

     

     • ❑ Workspace 

       • ❑ Edit, or add your comments to the Bio-Link User Guide

 

Bio-Link program leaders and partners session

1.  Log in.

2.  Working with your program page

3.  Adding employer information to your program page

4.  Practice

 

Bridge to Biotech session

 

Bio-Link program leaders and partners session

This session is open to anyone, but will emphasize skills that are needed for Bio-Link program leaders.

 

 

Bridge to Biotech session

This session is open to anyone, but will emphasize skills that are needed for Bridge to Biotech adopters.

For Bridge participants:

Instead of making a blog post, please post your content in the Bridge to Biotech area:

1.  Go to Create Content

 

2.  Choose Bridge to Biotech

3.  On your Bridge page - enter information in the form areas. 

• Write a title

• Pick a tag to get the information in the right place

• Write a sentence in the body

• Upload a file.

 

Next-generation Science Standards & Virtual Lab Simulations

Presenter: Sheryl Denker & Denmark Group: Mads Tvillingaard Bonde, Tobias Dam & Michael Bodekaer

Dr. Sheryl Denker, Senior Program Advisor for the BayBio Institute spoke about the project to develop the next generation of standards for K-12 science education.

Michael Bodekaer, Mads Bonde, and Tobias Aaby Dam presented Labster, http://www.labster.dk, an on-line environment for performing virtual labs.