The Biotechnology Program has a long history of providing professional development workshops and courses for researchers, teachers and students. We work with campus faculty and industry partners to identify biotech-related technical areas and soft skills needed for translational research and workforce development. Participants and stakeholders range from high school teachers and community college faculty who have joined us for "Train-the-Trainers" workshops to research scientists from academia, industry and government agencies looking to sharpen technical skills and knowledge of new research areas via intensive summer courses. To inquire about developing a new workshop or course, or to hear more about upcoming offerings in our pipeline, please contact biotechprogram@ucdavis.edu.
BLAST Program
The Biotech Leaders Advancing STEM Technologies (BLAST) group for early career scientists and engineers aims to train leaders capable of moving new biotechnologies from the lab to the marketplace.
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K-14 Train-the-Trainers Workshops
The Biotechnology Program has a long history of providing professional development for STEM instructors teaching biotech-related topics.
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Short Courses
The Biotechnology Program offers one-week, immersive short courses on emerging and platform technologies, such as Bioinformatics, Flow Cytometry, Multivariate Data Analysis, Proteomics and, most recently, Cultivated Meat.