Graduates of Great Bay Community College are working in the research labs where vaccines for COVID-19 are being developed, on the front lines where people are getting tested for the disease and in hospitals and clinics, where the therapeutics are being administered. The involvement of Great Bay alumni in every stage of ...
Montgomery County Community College Biotechnology Program alumni are among the researchers on the front line against the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ve helped develop an antibody that’s used to detect the virus in patient testing samples. Alumni Amber Sawyer, Sean Heron and Seethal Meda are employees at the Limerick ...
From the moment Naia Kasik walks through the doors of Applied Ingenuity Diagnostics, she knows exactly what she has to do as she comes face-to-face with the COVID-19 virus. She puts on her personal protective equipment, her lab coat, glasses, gloves and an N-95 mask before she sits down to begin a series of testing ...
My journey into biotechnology began accidentally; more of a plan B after my initial goals seemed less in line with my physical limitations following a work injury. Ultimately discovering that I enjoy the field, I turned my attention to it fully and became determined to do my best. Part of the curriculum for my AAS ...
You’ve likely considered a career path in bioengineering. Or maybe agricultural biotechnology is still on the list of possibilities. Or the path of genomics has caught your attention. But, there is one more career path to consider -- biotech sales. Biotech sales is a lucrative and rewarding field for many reasons. Of ...
At an NBC2 program Mary Goyette explained her role as a Technical Research Associate analyzing quantitative data sets. She talks about her work in collaborations with MGH, Harvard and MIT on genotype research, including focused projects on cholera and cardiovascular medicine.
Working ten hour shifts, four days a week Jen Pachas outlined her interesting activities as a Microbiology QC Technician at an NBC2 program, including product testing, plating samples and filtration during production.
With eight years experience working as a Manufacturing Technician-Downstream Michael Onufrak brought insight into the fast-paced, 24/7 world of Biomanufacturing at an NBC2 program.
Details about entering the industry, including the job search, interview, hiring and orientation processes, were shared by Upstream Manufacturing Technician John Condosta during an NBC2 program.
How Validation Specialists prepare biomanufacturing facilities for FDA inspections was among numerous topics Victoria Kelley covered in this talk at an NBC2 program. “It's never boring,” she said.
Biomanufacturing Validation Specialist job details and motivations were presented by Dennis Woodby at an NBC2 program, including the path he took into the field and why he likes it.
At an NBC2 program Jen Plouffe described her work as a Process Development Associate, including day-to-day working conditions, how she prepared for and obtained her job, plus details on scaling up biomanufacturing processes for more production.
At an NBC2 program Cybelle Mandigo describes how Downstream Manufacturing Technicians harvest and purify recombinant proteins, or other products, obtained from the upstream cell expression systems. These technicians follow defined steps to produce as much material as possible, while minimizing loss. The technicians' goals are to produce a pure product, with a high yield, in an efficient manner.
Jeanne Baker and Aaron Peterson, from NuSkin, tell us about their work. Jeanne, a Formulation and Documentation Technician, tells us how she switched from being a chef to making shampoo and explains how cooking is like making lotion. Aaron, a Formulation Chemist, switched from psychology to science. He talks about developing emulsions for cosmetics.
Mike Burdick, the Reagent Formulation Manager at Idaho Technology, tells us about his work managing a team of people manufacturing products and PCR reagents.
In this video we hear from a Lab Technician and a Lab Assistant. Nykole Sargent and Michelle Done both work at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and they talk about their work studying colon cancer. They show us how they measure gene expression to look for differences between normal cells and colon cancer cells. Nykole studied biotechnology at Salt Lake Community College.
The Leonardo's STEM Works Faces of Biotechnology videos were produced with funding from a Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) ...
Learn about pathways to a career in the lab. We visit Research Methods in Molecular Biology to learn what molecular biology in a company may involve and the skills that are used.
What is it like to work at a biotech company like Lucigen? Lucigen develops products for Next Generation DNA Sequencing, cloning, and protein expression. Jeff Williams and Kristin Terry tell us about Lucigen.
