Current and Upcoming Events

We are living in the century of biology. Vaccines are winning the pandemic battle, the biotech industry is rapidly growing, and biotechnology, synthetic biology, and genomics are top priorities for government investment. Biology is the future, and the future is here.

Your students may know that new biomedical technologies can treat once incurable diseases. But do they know that biotechnology products are being used in tennis shoes, fabric dyes, and food, and that biotechnology is beginning to play a major role in addressing climate change, pollution, and food security? Our data ... Read more

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy, the National Center for Biotechnology and Information at the National Library of Medicine, and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research invite you to apply to the virtual Petabyte-Scale Sequence Search: Metagenomics Benchmarking Codeathon . NIH’s Sequence Read Archive now makes more than 14 petabytes of data available in the cloud . To make full use of this data, the ... Read more

Registration is now open for the 2021 ATE Principal Investigators’ Conference, “ Broadening Impact Through Innovation,” October 18-22, hosted by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF). This year’s conference will be held as a hybrid event with both in-person and online participation options. The conference will kick-off virtually on Monday, October 18 and be followed by an in-person event taking place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on ... Read more