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New! Slide presentations and materials from the 9th Annual Community College Program Day at BIO2012.
This event is scheduled for Monday, June 18th. Presentations will be posted as they become available.
Image source: S. Porter
7:30am to 8:00am BREAKFAST
8:00am to 8:30am OPENING REMARKS
Greetings and Opening Remarks/ Sonia Wallman/ Organizing Committee
Lance Hartford, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation
8:30am to 10:15am
Industry- Realities & Expectations (Co- conveners- Lance Hartford and Russ Read, National Center, NC BioNetwork, Winston- Salem, NC)
This session will feature representatives from bioscience industries that provide opportunities for the trained biotechnology/bioscience workforce derived from community colleges.
10:15am to 10:30am BREAK
10:30am to 12:00pm
Teaching for the Always-Evolving Biotechnology Workplace
Moderator: Lisa Seidman, Madison Area Technical College
Two year biotechnology departments have developed various innovative programs such as student-led contract research and contract manufacturing organizations, research projects, business incubators, and more. At first glance, these programs seem discordant. But, perhaps they provide similar benefits to students preparing for a complex and changing workplace. This session will explore several innovative instructional models, asking how they benefit student learning.
12:00pm to 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00pm to 1:45pm
Featured Keynote Speaker
E. Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO & President of Caliper Life Science. Caliper is a premier provider of cutting-edge technologies enabling researchers in the life sciences industry to create life-saving and enhancing medicines and diagnostic tests more quickly and efficiently. Caliper is aggressively innovating new technology to bridge the gap between in vitro assays and in vivo results, enabling researchers to translate those results into cures for human disease. Caliper’s portfolio of offerings includes state-of-the-art microfluidics, lab automation & liquid handling, tissue microscopy, preclinical imaging technologies, and discovery & development outsourcing solutions. For more information please visit www.caliperLS.com
1:45pm to 3:00pm
Faces of Success: Our Graduates and Their Careers
Elaine Johnson, Bio-Link Director
This interactive session features a lively panel of successful industry professionals who recently gained employability skills at community and technical colleges. Individuals share their pathways to rewarding careers in high-skill, high-wage positions in the biotechnology industry thanks to the access and affordability of targeted programs at community and technical colleges.
3:00pm to 3:15pm BREAK
3:15pm to 4:30pm
Innovative and New Programs in Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing
Sonia Wallman, Executive Director of the NBC2
This year’s panel features programs noteworthy in their approach to biotechnology/biomanufacturing education and training and the workforce. Panelists include leaders of the Lone Star Biotechnology Institute at Lone Star College working with the local biomedical and biofuels industry in Houston, TX; the Biomass Production Training Certificate at Mira Costa College part of the EDGE (Educating and Developing Workers for the Green Economy) initiative for San Diego County, CA; the SoCalBio Biomanufacturing Consortium to develop biomanufacturing technician education and training programs to support the maturation of the industry in Los Angeles/Orange Counties, CA; and a new program, Biotechnology and Compliance, focusing on biomanufacturing and partnered with local industry at Quincy College in Quincy, MA
4:30pm to 5:00pm DISCUSSION
Moderator: Dr. Elaine Johnson, Bio-Link
This interactive session features a lively panel of successful industry professionals who recently gained employability skills at community and technical colleges. Individuals share their pathways to rewarding careers in high-skill, high-wage positions in the biotechnology industry thanks to the access and affordability of targeted programs at community and technical colleges.
Welcoming comments from Dr. Sonia Wallman, of the Organizing Committee, and Lance Hartford, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation.
Dr. Sonia Wallman from NBC2 moderated this panel of innovative leaders from biotechnology and biomanufacturing programs.
This year’s panel featured programs noteworthy in their approach to biotechnology/biomanufacturing education and training and the workforce.
Panelists included leaders of the:
Keynote Speaker - E. Kevin Hrusovsky, former CEO & President of Caliper Life Science, now a PerkinElmer company, spoke on the bioeconomy and new technologies in healthcare.
Caliper is a premier provider of cutting-edge technologies enabling researchers in the life sciences industry to create life-saving and enhancing medicines and diagnostic tests more quickly and efficiently. Caliper is aggressively innovating new technology to bridge the gap between in vitro assays and in vivo results, enabling researchers to translate those results into cures for human disease. Caliper’s portfolio of offerings includes state-of-the-art microfluidics, lab automation & liquid handling, tissue microscopy, preclinical imaging technologies, and discovery & development outsourcing solutions. For more information please visit www.caliperLS.com
Moderator: Lisa Seidman, Madison Area Technical College, WI
Two year biotechnology departments have developed various innovative programs such as student-led contract research and contract manufacturing organizations, research projects, business incubators, and more. At first glance, these programs seem discordant. But, perhaps they provide similar benefits to students preparing for a complex and changing workplace. This session will explore several innovative instructional models, asking how they benefit student learning.
Download a table comparing features of Innovabio, Studentfactured, and the BioNetwork Analytical Training Lab.
Download Bio-Link Draft of Common Core Skill Standards for the Bioscience Laboratory. Please read and send comments/suggestions.