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Posted by “It’s all about saving Aunt Millie” Bob Swanson Co-Founder of Genentech I just learned today that Jim DeKloe, who wrote this post as a guest author a few years ago is giving a webinar on May 11th on protein purification from industrial enzymes to cancer therapy. Jim’s webinar, offered through Bio-Rad, has two sessions at…
It only takes a quick trip to the grocery store to see that familiar jobs are vanishing. Unless you’re in Oregon, grocery store checkers are going the way of gas station attendants, travel agents, and secretaries. Jobs are changing, new jobs require different skills, and even those jobs will be obsolete within a short time.…
Last summer, I had the good fortune to attend a conference in Washington D.C. on Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology education. There were lots of inspiring speeches, cool videos, and talks about building more student-centered classrooms and strategies for change. Surprisingly, many of the attendees seemed unaware that there is a group of instructors,…
Every June, an incredible event takes place. Biotechnology educators gather in Berkeley, California, from across the US, to discuss new trends in biotechnology education, learn from each other and share information about educating students for the biotechnology workforce. There are tours of local biotech companies like Genentech and local research institutes like the cancer center…
I’m in Berkeley right now at the annual Bio-Link Summer Fellows forum. We’re getting to hear talks from people in the biotech industry, listen to enthusiastic instructors describe their biotech programs and ideas, and try out new educational materials. Yesterday, two speakers (Damon Tighe and Jason Baumohl) from the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek,…
Bio-Link is accepting applications for this year’s National Summer Fellows forum, June 2-6th, in Berkeley, CA. You can get an application at www.bio-link.org I’ll be there, doing some kind of bioinformatics workshop. I’ll probably be talking about either metagenomics or comparing protein structures and drug resistance, but if you have topic requests, feel free to…