Biotechnology: is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2). Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biomanufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.
In this presentation, we will go over some of the reasons you would want to consider using fluorescence imaging and give a brief introduction to using fluorescent probes for cell structure an...
Glycosylation is one of the most prevalent co- and post-translational modifications of human proteins and is known to affect the protein properties. Glycosylation is known to be involved in m...
Millions of individuals have been sequenced or genotyped and linked with medical records, providing an exciting opportunity for therapeutic target discovery. My lab has been using a resilienc...
9:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM CT, 12:00 PM ET
Epigenetics defines the set of distinct and heritable molecular mechanisms able to influence gene expression without altering the primary genetic seque...
A recently discovered communication system used by cells to send messages across the human body promises to revolutionize our understanding of disease and how we treat it. Technologies based...
The Personalized Medicine Initiative (PMI) is a non-profit enterprise based in Vancouver, Canada that is focused on introducing personalized, molecularly-based medicine into the front lines o...
Pathology departments are under significant pressure to meet the demands of a precise medicine environment where general phenotypic attributes are no longer sufficient for accurately defining...
The reproducibility of animal studies is now critical to ensure that limited resources are used wisely and that efforts yield useable knowledge. At this time, IACUCs and other similar a...
January 12, 2016, 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 3:00pm GMT
Targeted nanoparticle applications have become a major focus of translational development of both diagnostics and therapeutics for clini...
DATE: November 24, 2015TIME: 9am EST, 2pm GMTFor many years now, gels have been a fundamental research tool in academic research for the separation and analysis of nucleic acids and pro...
DATE: October 15, 2015
TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDT
Most cell biologists culture cells in dishes and shake flasks to produce proteins and biological molecules; however the production of ...
DATE: October 7th, 2015TIME: 9am Pacific time, 12pm Eastern timeThe neuroscience field is rapidly evolving as both a burgeoning area for basic research (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ...
Stage IV melanoma carried a 24 month life expectancy three short years ago. That is what T.J. Sharpe’s first oncologist told him he was facing, after a visit to the ER for a fever turne...
The 95% failure rate of anticancer therapeutic being approved after positive Phase III trials suggests that existing pre-clinical approaches and tools are inadequate predictors of clinical ou...
Biomarkers, with their associated “tsunami” of publications, represent what is arguably one of the largest areas of scientific inquiry in the history of biomedicine. Touted as the...
DATE: September 17, 2015TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDTAs technology advances and globalization develops, our way of life has become more dependent on energy sources to power our everyday activ...
One of the challenges in sustaining innovation in computational molecular design is the need to harness and deliver promising solutions irrespective of their source, without creating new soft...
DATE: September 15, 2015TIME: 10:00AM Pacific time, 1:00PM Eastern timeThe breadth of instruments available for quantitative PCR (qPCR) has continued to grow in the past 5-10 years. With ...
Natural preservation is often cited as effective and “safe” alternative to traditional synthetic preservative systems. However, the so-called natural preservatives bring a number...
Date: Thursday, June 11th, 2015Time: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDT, 03:00PM BST Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with nearly 44 million people affected worldwide. Chara...
Over the past few years, evidence has been accumulating to indicate that ribosomal subunits are not simply tape-heads that decode mRNA sequences into polypeptide chains, but that they also pl...
I will present new insights into how multiomics profiling can be used to analyze and provide new insights into two complexes diseases, type 2 diabetes and autism....
I will discuss the use of genomic technologies - mostly ultrahigh-throughput DNA sequencing - to study normal human biology and to determine what goes wrong when we have disease. First I wil...
Cancer is complex, but recent findings are yielding a greater understanding of the disease. The tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are implicated in breast, ovarian, prostate, and other c...
In this presentation, we will go over some of the reasons you would want to consider using fluorescence imaging and give a brief introduction to using fluorescent probes for cell structure an...
Glycosylation is one of the most prevalent co- and post-translational modifications of human proteins and is known to affect the protein properties. Glycosylation is known to be involved in m...
Millions of individuals have been sequenced or genotyped and linked with medical records, providing an exciting opportunity for therapeutic target discovery. My lab has been using a resilienc...
9:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM CT, 12:00 PM ET
Epigenetics defines the set of distinct and heritable molecular mechanisms able to influence gene expression without altering the primary genetic seque...
A recently discovered communication system used by cells to send messages across the human body promises to revolutionize our understanding of disease and how we treat it. Technologies based...
The Personalized Medicine Initiative (PMI) is a non-profit enterprise based in Vancouver, Canada that is focused on introducing personalized, molecularly-based medicine into the front lines o...
Pathology departments are under significant pressure to meet the demands of a precise medicine environment where general phenotypic attributes are no longer sufficient for accurately defining...
The reproducibility of animal studies is now critical to ensure that limited resources are used wisely and that efforts yield useable knowledge. At this time, IACUCs and other similar a...
January 12, 2016, 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 3:00pm GMT
Targeted nanoparticle applications have become a major focus of translational development of both diagnostics and therapeutics for clini...
DATE: November 24, 2015TIME: 9am EST, 2pm GMTFor many years now, gels have been a fundamental research tool in academic research for the separation and analysis of nucleic acids and pro...
DATE: October 15, 2015
TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDT
Most cell biologists culture cells in dishes and shake flasks to produce proteins and biological molecules; however the production of ...
DATE: October 7th, 2015TIME: 9am Pacific time, 12pm Eastern timeThe neuroscience field is rapidly evolving as both a burgeoning area for basic research (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ...
Stage IV melanoma carried a 24 month life expectancy three short years ago. That is what T.J. Sharpe’s first oncologist told him he was facing, after a visit to the ER for a fever turne...
The 95% failure rate of anticancer therapeutic being approved after positive Phase III trials suggests that existing pre-clinical approaches and tools are inadequate predictors of clinical ou...
Biomarkers, with their associated “tsunami” of publications, represent what is arguably one of the largest areas of scientific inquiry in the history of biomedicine. Touted as the...
DATE: September 17, 2015TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDTAs technology advances and globalization develops, our way of life has become more dependent on energy sources to power our everyday activ...
One of the challenges in sustaining innovation in computational molecular design is the need to harness and deliver promising solutions irrespective of their source, without creating new soft...
DATE: September 15, 2015TIME: 10:00AM Pacific time, 1:00PM Eastern timeThe breadth of instruments available for quantitative PCR (qPCR) has continued to grow in the past 5-10 years. With ...
Natural preservation is often cited as effective and “safe” alternative to traditional synthetic preservative systems. However, the so-called natural preservatives bring a number...
Date: Thursday, June 11th, 2015Time: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDT, 03:00PM BST Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with nearly 44 million people affected worldwide. Chara...
Over the past few years, evidence has been accumulating to indicate that ribosomal subunits are not simply tape-heads that decode mRNA sequences into polypeptide chains, but that they also pl...
I will present new insights into how multiomics profiling can be used to analyze and provide new insights into two complexes diseases, type 2 diabetes and autism....
I will discuss the use of genomic technologies - mostly ultrahigh-throughput DNA sequencing - to study normal human biology and to determine what goes wrong when we have disease. First I wil...
Cancer is complex, but recent findings are yielding a greater understanding of the disease. The tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are implicated in breast, ovarian, prostate, and other c...
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