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We recently presented a webinar on exploring biotech careers and how to use Biotech-Careers.org for investigating how companies are fighting COVID-19. This purpose of this blog is to gather some of those topics in a single place together with the career exploration handouts from Dr. Karen Leung, City College of San Francisco.

1. VIEW THE RECORDED WEBINAR

2. Learn about Karen Leung's Career Exploration Course at City College of San Francisco

3. Go to the bottom of this page to download Dr.... Read more

Production of this Downstream processing eLearning module was funded by a DOL grant (DOL #TC-23761-12-60-A-37) led by Russ Read at Forsyth Technical Community College. The Montgomery County Community College leads were Jack O'Neill, PhD, Sonia Wallman, PhD, and Margaret Byrans, PhD.

The entry page has links to three parts:

The module is presented in detail in Webinar 3: Virtual Tools for Protein Purification and Downstream Processing .

Module 1 provides an overview of the stages... Read more

Biotech instructors across the US have been stepping up to help out their colleagues and share materials for teaching concepts in biomanufacturing. While we all acknowledge that working with virtual tools is not the same as working with our own bioreactors, we can see useful features that may keep some instructors using these tools even when we're allowed back in the lab.

Biomanufacturing is a collection of processes that companies use when making biological products. In the first part of the process, living things are grown in culture under conditions where they will produce the proteins or other... Read more

Are you interested in seeing the inside of a lab but don’t know anyone who could get you inside one?

Amgen’s Virtual Lab can give you a fascinating look into what goes on in a production laboratory.

Update 3/12/2021 : Amgen took the video tour off-line saying that it's no longer up-to-date. We're keeping some of the images here since they still provide a nice summary of the different steps.

Process development : cells from the cell bank are grown in flasks to start the process.

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How can you teach strategies for protein purification without a lab?

Protein Purification is an award-winning program which has been widely used in schools, colleges and universities since 1983. It guides students (and experts!) through some of the more commonly-used protein separation techniques and lets them experiment. Students can begin with a simple mixture of proteins and follow a tutorial to see how these behave during gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. Afterwards, students can go on to design and test full purification protocols using more complex mixtures of proteins. The behavior of proteins in the... Read more

As the numbers of COVID-19 cases continue to increase, so do the numbers of companies that are working on COVID-19 tests, therapeutics, and vaccines. In early March we began tagging companies, in the Biotech-Careers.org database, that are working on COVID-19. Initially there was a small number of companies. By mid March there were 57, and today - April 6 - there are 109. It's great to know that there are so many companies working on this problem, but what else do they do?

We wanted to know too. The Biotech-Careers.org company (employer) database has always had a rich set... Read more

Due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic a lot of events are having to be rescheduled or canceled. Thanks to the hard work by the members at Mentor-Connect two wonderful services are still going to happen, and they have even extended the deadline to May 1, 2020 to help give people more time to apply!

The Second-Chance service supports the revision of proposals that were declined the first time a proposal was submitted in the following tracts:

Small Grants for Institutions New-to-ATE, or

ATE projects (Colleges seeking mentoring support in this track must have successfully completed... Read more

The DNALC has gone LIVE - check it out! https://dnalc.cshl.edu/ Read more

DNA Barcoding and Metabarcoding for CURES Workshops

Funded by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center (DNALC), in collaboration with New York City College of Technology (City Tech), Bowie State University (BSU), and James Madison University (JMU), is offering two five-day workshops on DNA barcoding or metabarcoding in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). Applicants to these free workshops should be undergraduate teaching faculty with a sincere desire to involve students in authentic research projects, especially in CUREs for students in introductory courses.

Speaker : Bruce Van Dyke, Quincy College, MA

Host : Dr. Sandra Porter, Digital World Biology, InnovATE BIO .org

1. Watch Webinar1: Virtual Single-use Biomanufacturing

2. Visit the Virtual Single-Use Biomanufacturing on-line module password : qcbtc

3. Go to the bottom of the page to download the handouts

A QUICK TOUR