Blogs

This is day 2 on the set where the educational interactive movie: Making the Call: Quality in Biomanufacturing is being filmed. The purpose of this “choose your own adventure” movie is to prepare students to work in a regulated biomanufacturing environment. Yesterday our intrepid actors encountered several workplace challenges in their roles as biomanufacturing technicians. The character, Corrine, accidentally turned the wrong valve potentially contaminating a batch of the life-saving (fictitious) drug, Squabanin. How she handles this crisis will determine the fate of her career…

Today we are introduced to a new character, the production manager played by Aseem... Read more

Bio-Linkers Jeanette Mowery, Vivian Ngan-Winward, and Lisa Seidman have traveled to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center for the filming of an educational interactive movie: Making the Call: Quality in Biomanufacturing. The purpose of this “choose your own adventure” movie is to prepare students to work in a regulated biomanufacturing environment. During the movie, students will view scenarios that might occur in the workplace and will be asked to make decisions as if they were the employees in those situations. Different outcomes, some good, some not, will unfold depending on the student’s decisions. This movie project... Read more

MiraCosta College, a Bio-Link program north of San Diego, has a tenure-track position for a full-time instructor in biomanufacturing. The college is beautiful and the lab facilities are amazing!

Check out all information here at the MiraCosta Biomanufacturing Recruitment Portal. Read more

Plans are underway for the 2016 Summer Fellows Forum. This year's conference will be a little shorter because of other events in San Francisco at the beginning of the week, but we still expect a good turnout and as always, a great time learning from old friends and meeting new ones.

Submit your presentation now by completing the: Summer Fellows Forum Presentation Proposal 2016

Proposals are due by April 1st, 2016.

We will notify all submitters in early May.

Pellet Productions and the South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center are partnering to offer a workshop on:

“Build-Your-Own Recruitment Video” (Beta Test)

The application deadline is December 15, 2015 at 5:00 pm (your time zone).

Limited to one application per college.

Applicants will be notified of selection by Jan. 15th, 2016.

The workshop will be held on Friday, June 10, 2016 in Florence, South Carolina.

Overview

A Build-Your-Own Recruitment Video customization tool is being developed that will enable any educator (teacher, recruiter, marketing professional) to select micro-content... Read more

A few weeks back a colleague of mine from the ABRF (Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities) reached out and asked me if I could help with help with ABRF Student Awards at ABRCMS. The meeting was being held in Seattle (where I live) and another colleague needed some help. So I said sure. The real mission was to recruit students for the annual ABRF meeting in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 20-23, 2016. You might ask what is the ABRCMS and why should Bio-Link be interested?

The ABRCMS is a the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. From the conference... Read more

Del Mar College biotechnology student John Ramirez wins an honorable mention at the HHMI 7th Annual Sea-Phage Symposium held at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus in Virginia!

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Biotechnology Student John Ramirez Wins at Howard Hughes Medical Institute!

Not long ago, I was fortunate enough to experience a demo of a MiniOne unit and like most life-long educators, I was excited to see advances in technology that will now enable our students to see real-time DNA results using a system that is safe and easy-to use. It is obvious that the MiniOne units are designed with students in mind. The MiniOne gel electrophoresis unit introduces technology that is easy-to-use, safe, and enables students to run a gel and see results in less than 50 minutes.

Why offer Gel Electrophoresis... Read more