Advanced Biosciences Initiative
With a $250,000 grant from the W.F. Keck Foundation, we launched the Advanced Biosciences Initiative (ABI) in 2011. The overarching goals of the ABI are to significantly advance SCU's undergraduate bioscience and bioengineering programs and provide workshops for middle and high school teachers through the Santa Clara County Biotechnology Education Partnership (SCCBEP) and the Bay Area Biotech Education Consortium (BABEC). ABI will involve faculty workshops on advanced instrumentation, curriculum projects, interdisciplinary research grants, an annual Biosciences Symposium, SCCBEP workshops and other Silicon Valley bioscience partnerships.
In collaboration with the National Biotechnology Education Conference,the Advanced Biosciences Initiative is hosting the Second Annual Advanced Biosciences Symposium at Santa Clara University on February 15-17, 2013. The overall focus of the symposium is on bioimaging. Faculty, industry partners, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for oral presentations. Undergraduates, teachers, high school students and others are encouraged to present posters.
Register online, and/or submit an abstract, by the February 4, 2012 deadline.
Second Annual Advanced Biosciences Symposium Agenda
Santa Clara University, Benson Center
February 15-16, 2013
Friday, February 15
12:00 noon - Lunch and Registration (California Mission Room)
12:50 pm - Advanced Biosciences Symposium (Williman Room)
1:00 pm - Live Cell Imaging of Plants (Williman Room)
Jessica Lucas
Santa Clara University
1:30 pm - Dynamic imaging of wood cells to enhance biofuel production (Williman Room)
Catherine Lacayo and Michael Thelen
Physical and Life Sciences Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2:10 pm - Role of microenvironmental stiffness on the response of human neural cells to environmental toxins (Williman Room)
Kalpith Ramamoorthi, CadeEllis Ito, and Prashanth Asuri
Department of Bioengineering, Santa Clara University
2:30 pm - Imaging biological function across scales: from macromolecular complexes to cells, tissues and microbial communities (Williman Room)
Manfred Auer, Ph.D.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
3:00 pm - Macromolecular-resolution 3D imaging of plant cell wall architecture: a step towards affordable lignocellulosic biofuels (Williman Room)
Purbasha Sarkar and Manfred Auer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
3:20 pm - Break (transition to California Mission Room)
3:30 pm - Ten reasons why plant cells are the best cells (California Mission Room)
David Ehrhardt
Stanford University
4:30 Poster Session
5:30 Dinner (by invitation)
6:15 pm Symposium Keynote: MULTI-SCALE IMAGING OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: Where’s the Dark Matter? (California Mission Room>
Mark H. Ellisman, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosciences; Director, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at the Center for Research in Biological Systems in La Jolla, California at the University of California, San Diego.
Adjourn
Saturday, February 16
All day NBEC workshops (Alumni Sciences Building)
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Up to 3 grants of $12,000 will be awarded with a deadline of February 24, 2012. The budget for each $12,000 grant will be $5,000 faculty summer salary and benefits, $5,000 for undergraduate student salary and benefits and up to $2,000 for consumable supplies. Selected projects must be collaborative, interdisciplinary, involve one or more microscopic methods, integrate a Silicon Valley partner in a meaningful way including campus visits, interactions with students and others types of project contributions, include a future external support plan and produce published research.
Proposals are due February 22, 2013 with awards announced in late March or early April, and project start dates of June 1, 2013. Full-time faculty are invited to apply. Proposals must be submitted electronically to grants@scu.edu with "ABI Grants" as the subject and must include:
a. Project Title, List of Participants, and Project Summary (1 page)
b. Project Description (3 pages) must include a description of how one or more microscopic methods are involved and how a Silicon Valley bioscience partner will be integrated in a meaningful way including a schedule of campus visits or off-site visits and a description of the partner's project contribution
c. Budget with budget justification (1 page)
d. Future external support plan (1 page)
e. Patent development plan (1 page; only required if potentially patentable inventions are anticipated)
f. Letter of Support from at least one Silicon Valley bioscience partner
For more information, please contact Amy Shachter, Associate Provost for Research and Faculty Affairs.
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