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The seventh annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy is the original conference dedicated solely to the growth of the industrial biotechnology and bioenergy sectors in North America and the Asia-Pacific region. This year's event was held in Vancouver, Canada from October 10th - 12th, 2012 at the Westin Bayshore.
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is the world’s largest industrial biotech gathering which brings together business executives, government officials, researchers and industry leaders from over 35 countries. This year's event was held in Orlando, Florida from April 29 – May 2, 2012 at the Gaylord Palms
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is the world’s largest industrial biotech gathering which brings together business executives, government officials, researchers and industry leaders from over 35 countries. This year's event was held in Orlando, Florida from April 29 – May 2, 2012 at the Gaylord Palms
5th BIO Latin America Conference | São Paulo, Brazil | 3-4 September, 2019
Hosted by BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) and Biominas Brasil
Photo: Ivan Almeida
5th BIO Latin America Conference | São Paulo, Brazil | 3-4 September, 2019
Hosted by BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) and Biominas Brasil
Photo: Ivan Almeida
Workshop (February 23-24, 2010) in Welk'it'e, Ethiopia, organized by EIAR and ILRI aimed at popularizing research results and good practices on trypanosomosis /tsetse control in the Ghibe valley of Ethiopia and the way forward. The workshop was attended by different stakeholders’ from five Tsetse and tryps affected regions of the country. The workshop was opened by H.E. Dr. Abera Dressa, State Minister, MoARD (photo credit: ILRI/Dessie).
5th BIO Latin America Conference | São Paulo, Brazil | 3-4 September, 2019
Hosted by BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) and Biominas Brasil
Photo: Ivan Almeida
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is the world’s largest industrial biotech gathering which brings together business executives, government officials, researchers and industry leaders from over 35 countries. This year's event was held in Orlando, Florida from April 29 – May 2, 2012 at the Gaylord Palms
5th BIO Latin America Conference | São Paulo, Brazil | 3-4 September, 2019
Hosted by BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) and Biominas Brasil
Photo: Ivan Almeida
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is the world’s largest industrial biotech gathering which brings together business executives, government officials, researchers and industry leaders from over 35 countries. This year's event was held in Orlando, Florida from April 29 – May 2, 2012 at the Gaylord Palms
The seventh annual Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy is the original conference dedicated solely to the growth of the industrial biotechnology and bioenergy sectors in North America and the Asia-Pacific region. This year's event was held in Vancouver, Canada from October 10th - 12th, 2012 at the Westin Bayshore.
Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational chemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. It is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and of the herbicide glyphosate, which it markets under the Roundup brand.
Founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, by the 1940s Monsanto was a major producer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibers. Notable achievements by Monsanto and its scientists as a chemical company included breakthrough research on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation and being the first company to mass-produce light emitting diodes (LEDs). The company also formerly manufactured controversial products such as the insecticide DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, and recombinant bovine somatotropin (a.k.a. bovine growth hormone).
Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell, along with three academic teams, which was announced in 1983, and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops, which it did in 1987. It remained one of the top 10 U.S. chemical companies until it divested most of its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a process of mergers and spin-offs that focused the company on biotechnology.
Monsanto was a pioneer in applying the biotechnology industry business model to agriculture, using techniques developed by Genentech and other biotech drug companies in the late 1970s in California. In this business model, companies invest heavily in research and development, and recoup the expenses through the use and enforcement of biological patents. Monsanto's application of this model to agriculture, along with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system of plant breeders' rights in the 1980s, came into direct conflict with customary practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop plant varieties. Its seed patenting model has also been criticized as biopiracy and a threat to biodiversity. Monsanto's role in these changes in agriculture (which include its litigation and its seed commercialization practices), its current and former biotechnology products, its lobbying of government agencies, and its history as a chemical company have made Monsanto controversial. In FY2013, Monsanto had about 21,900 employees, Revenue of US$ 14.861 billion, Net income of US$ 1.659 billion, and Total assets of US$ 20.664 billion.
5th BIO Latin America Conference | São Paulo, Brazil | 3-4 September, 2019
Hosted by BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) and Biominas Brasil
Photo: Ivan Almeida
The ACA will lease wet lab space to companies developing products such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and provide education and real-world training to ACC’s biotechnology students.
The unifying theme of the OQBM was biotechnology in chemical engineering. Organizers asked such vital questions as, what role does biotechnology play in engineering as a profession, and what is its future in Canada? What is our role (as workers at the interface of science and engineering) in our professional associations (Professional Engineers of Ontario / Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec)?
Photo by Roberta Baker – Engineering Strategic Communications
Built between 1908 and 1910, this Prairie and Sullivanesque-style house was designed by George Grant Elmslie and Louis Sullivan for Josephine Crane Bradley, and her husband, Harold C. Bradley, a Biotechnology professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The house is not only one the most significant of the many houses designed during Sullivan’s career, but is one of only a few houses designed under Sullivan of such a substantial size to be located in a suburban setting. It is the most notable large surviving residential commission of Sullivan’s career, given that the most comparable building, the Babson House in Riverside, Illinois (1907-1909), was demolished in 1960 to make way for a residential subdivision. The Bradley House is universally considered to have been very successful in connecting the exterior with the interior, with cantilevered sleeping porches at the ends of the gabled south wing on the second floor, wrapped by casement windows, making the house appear to be floating above the surrounding landscape, while bay windows on the first floor create cozy interior spaces surrounded on three sides by the outdoors. The house’s interior, however, is more controversial - it did not feature an interior layout or design befitting the Bradley family, instead, being far better suited to the needs of the fraternity that has occupied the house for the vast majority of its existence. In addition to being unsatisfactory to the client, the house was also designed at a time when Sullivan’s professional and personal lives were beginning to fall apart, making it difficult for him to get any commissions for work, or maintain interpersonal relationships. Sullivan was also descending into alcoholism, with this downward trend continuing for the rest of his life. Sullivan’s career in 1908 was a far cry from where it had been a decade and a half prior when he was one of several architects selected to design buildings for the 1893 Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) in Chicago. Due to how turbulent Sullivan’s life was at the time, historical sources state matter-of-factly that most of the house’s design felt to George Elmslie, with Sullivan only giving occasional input. Others claim profusely that Sullivan was the main designer, and that Elmslie’s role was overstated. However, Elmslie did leave Sullivan’s firm before the house was completed, in 1909, to partner with William Gray Purcell and form the firm of Purcell and Elmslie. Elmslie’s new firm would go on to design another house for the Bradley family less than five years after this house was completed. Despite the context surrounding its creation and the controversial debate over who should receive credit for designing it, the house is a notable work of architecture and quite significant, and was done under Louis Sullivan’s leadership.
The house is T-shaped with two wings, the north wing being wider and featuring a double-gable roof, while the smaller south wing featuring a gabled roof. The first floor of the house and the base are clad in red brick, with several hipped roof sections that extend out past the footprint of the second floor, including one-story bay windows on the east and south facades. The house features art glass casement windows, a porch at the entrance on the north side of the building, and a porch on the first floor at the western end of the south wing, which is tucked underneath the second floor of the house. Above the brick base, the house is clad in wood board and batten siding oriented horizontally and wooden shingles, all of which is painted black. Decorative wooden panels with Sullivanesque ornament are present at the cantilevered east and west ends of the south wing, which form spandrels below the windows of the sleeping porches and long beams that terminate at vertical trim pieces, echoing the motifs found on Sullivan’s other work. The cantilevered ends of the south wing are supported by four brick piers, which contrast with the dark wooden cladding around them. The interior of the house features beautiful decorative woodwork, wooden floors, coffered ceilings with wooden beams, decorative bronze sconce and pendant light fixtures, a staircase screened by a row of wooden slats, decorative Sullivanesque wooden railings, built-in furniture, and brick fireplaces with mosaic tile inlay panels.
Shortly after moving into the house, the Bradleys found that it was too big and expensive to maintain, hiring the firm of Purcell and Elmslie to design a smaller house in nearby Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin, which was completed around 1915. They subsequently sold the larger house to the Sigma Phi Fraternity Chapter affiliated with the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who have owned the house ever since. The house suffered a devastating fire in 1972 that destroyed the roof and heavily damaged the second floor, but was rebuilt faithfully and carefully to its original design. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It is also a contributing structure in the University Heights Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house today continues to serve as a fraternity house, and has been wonderfully maintained and preserved under their generational stewardship.
Tom Zinnen, a biotechnology specialist with UW-Extension and UW-Madison, coordinates the Wednesday Nite @ The Lab series at the UW Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall. He dressed the part for introducing the April 18 speaker, Joan Hall, chief editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English. Learn more about science outreach on the UW-Madison campus at: science.wisc.edu/
Partnership for Prescription Assistance Celebrates Milestone Helping More Than 6 Million Uninsured Patients
Super Bowl Winning Running Back Jerome “The Bus” Bettis And “Help Is Here Express” Bus Tour Coming To Harrisburg to Help Patients in Need Access Prescription Medicines Harrisburg, PA (October 22, 2009) – After visiting more than 3,000 cities in all 50 states, the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) has reached a historic milestone today by helping the six millionth person at an event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The PPA is a nationwide effort sponsored by America’s pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies that links uninsured and financially struggling Americans to programs that provide prescription medicine for free or nearly free.
Dr Jolene Schuster's Biotechnology labs have concentrated on DNA study during April, 2021, and she explains the lesson plan as follows: "The ability to make many copies of select regions of DNA is incredibly valuable, not just in the biochemistry lab, but also in medicine, agriculture, forensic science, evolutionary biology, and many other applications. The basic process is called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR.) Biotechnology class used PCR to amplify a short non-coding region of their own 16th chromosome to create a class genetic distribution profile. Students harvested some cells from inside their cheeks, extracted a small amount of DNA, and mixed the DNA with the right components to set up the PCR reaction. The reaction involves repeated copying of a specific target DNA sequence. The PCR products are analyzed for size and relative concentrations after the reaction. This particular non-coding region, the Alu unit at the PV92 locus, has been used to establish relatedness of individuals for many purposes." Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Plenary session "Can't live with you, can't live without you: The VC and pharma relationship" with Frances Heller, senior vice-president of Business Development at Bristol-Myers Squibb (USA); Bernhard Kirschbaum, head of Global Research and Early Development at Merck Serono (Germany); Ed Mathers, partner at NEA (USA), and Denise Pollard-Knight, partner at Phase4 Ventures (United Kingdom). Moderator: Vaughn Kailian, director of MPM Capital (USA).
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