You are here

Home

Blogs

Blogs by AC2 members are below. To view additional blogs please visit the Community Blogs page.

2018 CSBI Life Sciences Workforce Trends Report

By: 
Sandra Porter
Wed, Jun 20 2018

The Coalition of State Bioscience Institutes (CSBI) released the 2018 Life Sciences Workforce Trends Report June 5, 2018 at the BIO International Convention held in Boston, Massachusetts June 4-7. The report provides a national snapshot of the current and anticipated talent needs of the nation’s dynamic life science industry.  

The biotech industry continues to be a leading driver of employment across the country, providing 1.73 million jobs in 85,000 companies. In 2017, employers listed almost 264,000 postings for... Read more

Filed under: 
Related to: 

Over 500 attended the (AC2 sponsored) SACNAS SCIENCE SATURDAY April 21, 2108

By: 
jhatherill
Mon, Apr 30 2018

We had over 500 people attend the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Science Saturday Event this past weekend!  Please consider examining the following video (it's only about 60 seconds long) to see a sampling of the exciting things that took place at this AC2 science outreach event for our community.

Thanks!

https://www.facebook.com/SACNASDelMar/... Read more

Related to: 

Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching Grant

By: 
Poornima Rao
Wed, Apr 25 2018

Joseph Oleniczak has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching
Program Grant through the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs and the Institute of International Education. This grant is competitively selected
for award by the Presidentially-appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
and made possible through funds that are appropriated annually by the U.S. Congress.
The purpose of the Fulbright Award in Teaching Program is to provide K-12 teachers
with the opportunity to take a leave of absence... Read more

Related to: 

Biology Field of Study

By: 
Bridgette Kirkpatrick
Thu, Jan 25 2018

The Biology Field of Study (FOS) meeting took place on January 8 & 9, 2018 in Austin, Texas. The report will soon for open for 30 days for public comment. I will update with a link for comment when I get it.

The meeting opened with the charge of the committee and election of the chair and vice chair. Our charge was to identify the courses that should be included in the Biology FOS and to address the TX30X60 Mandate set forth by the state legislature (http://www.thecb.... Read more

Related to: 

Bio Databases 2018: How do they taste?

Posted from Discovering Biology in a Digital World by Todd Smith on Thu Jan 04, 2018
Database Growth. Total DBs are in the top line.
DBs per year are on the bottom.

It’s a new year and new edition of Nucleic Acids Research’s (NAR’s) Annual Database issue. It’s the 25th year for the NAR database series, the eighth for FinchTalk, and the first at the new home for Discovering Biology... Read more

Big Data, Computational Tools and Are Scientists and Biotechnicians Keeping Up?

By: 
Linnea Fletcher
Tue, Jan 16 2018
One of my favorite journals is The Scientist and the latest one had this article,  Scientists Continue to Use Outdated Methods  The use of underperforming computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis—and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.   By Catherine Offord | January 9, 2018. For the past several years, industry in our area has indicated that the need for computational skills whether in the area of bioinformatics, robotics, and the analysis of data in general is growing. What do you find the same trend... Read more

CRISPR 101

By: 
Linnea Fletcher
Mon, Jan 15 2018

Looking for a handy guide to CRISPR technology? A biotech company in Silicon Valley (Redwood City) has a nice eBook. The company is named Synthego Read more

Related to: 

New Trend in Hiring Endangers Two Year Biotech Programs?

By: 
Linnea Fletcher
Mon, Jan 15 2018

Dr Porter sent me an article on a possible new trend in hiring biotechicians. Companies are now going back to students with a 4 year degree. Interestingly we are seeing the same thing in Austin ---at least in the companies that are being bought by larger companies whose HR are out of state. One of our two year students, Isabel James, is now going back to UT to get her 4 year degree because of this trend. She will find that UT is actually offering less lab instruction in upper division courses -while in the two year ACC Biotech Program we continue to focus on this lab based education and... Read more

Filed under: 
Related to: 

Highlighting Past 2017 Biotechnology Events

By: 
Linnea Fletcher
Sat, Jan 13 2018

One of my favorite things to do in January is review all of the notifications I receive as to what are the topic biotech events or products for the past year. So I thought this year (2018) I would share what I receive. Today, I received one from Technology Networks. https://www.technologynetworks.com/informatics/lists/biggest-news-storie.... Check out the list--I pasted it below.

1. Researchers use MRI to predict autism    

2. Unexpected layer of gene... Read more

Notes from Synbiobeta

By: 
Todd Smith
Thu, Oct 12 2017

@synbiobeta concluded it’s #sbbsf17 annual meeting on synthetic biology Oct 5, 2017. The progress companies are making in harnessing biology as a platform for manufacturing and problem solving is world changing.

What is Synthetic Biology?

... Read more

Related to: 

Pages

Learn About AC2

Core Activities

Key Pages