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While humans have taken limited advantage of natural populations of microalgae for centuries (Nostoc in Asia and Spirulina in Africa and North America for sustenance), it is only recently that we have come to realize the potential of microalgal biotechnology. Microalgal biotechnology has the potential to produce a vast array of products including foodstuffs, industrial chemicals, compounds with therapeutic applications and bioremediation solutions from a virtually untapped source. From an industrial (i.e. commercial) perspective, the goal of microalgal biotechnology is to make money by developing marketable products. For such a business to succeed the following steps must be taken: identify a desirable metabolite and a microalga that produces and accumulates the desired metabolite, establish a large-scale production process for the desired metabolite, and market the desired metabolite. So far, the commercial achievements of microalgal biotechnology have been modest. Microalgae that produce dozens of desirable metabolites have been identified. Aided by high throughput screening technology even more leads will become available. However, the successes in large-scale production and product marketing have been few. We will discuss those achievements and difficulties from the industrial point of view by considering examples from industry, specially our own experience at Mera Pharmaceuticals.

Our bioanalytical lab tech program pathway students will also enjoy a cutting-edge pharma lab with four HPLCs, dissolution testers, Karl Fisher moisture testers, fermentation equipment, and low-pressure column chromatography equipment for protein purification. We also have a fully functional Class A cleanroom for sterile operations.

Earning an AAS degree in biotechnology from PCC can prepare you for fast-growing careers in many industries, as well as graduate programs to further your education. About 85 percent of biotechnology degree graduates are either immediately employed in biotechnology positions or enter additional educational programs.

Most graduates of the Biotechnology AAS start out around $17-$22/hr as entry-level lab technicians. Many report they receive a promotion and accompanying significant raise within their first two years of employment.

Fungi have been used to better the lives of everyday people and unravel the mysteries of higher eukaryotic organisms for decades. However, comparing progress and development stemming from fungal research to that of human, plant, and bacterial research, fungi remain largely understudied and underutilized. Recent commercial ventures have begun to gain popularity in society, providing a new surge of interest in fungi, mycelia, and potential new applications of these organisms to various aspects of research. Biotechnological advancements in fungal research cannot occur without intensive amounts of time, investments, and research tool development. In this review, we highlight past breakthroughs in fungal biotechnology, discuss requirements to advance fungal biotechnology even further, and touch on the horizon of new breakthroughs with the highest potential to positively impact both research and society.

Figure 1 Representation of publication trends for given terms between 1991-2021. Publication numbers represent all documents found within the given years by Web of Science (www.webofscience.com/).

Figure 2 Fungi contribute to environmental cycles in many ways. Broad curiosity about fungi begs the necessity of tool development to better understand how they do the things they do. Better tools reveal deeper insights that can have novel applications in our daily world. Promising applications need further funding support for technology transfer, product development, and optimization in order to help contribute to a better world for all. Created with BioRender.com.

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PDA's latest professional resource, Biotechnology: From Idea to Market, is an invaluable guide and reference for anyone involved in the development of a product, from idea generation through commercialization.

The goal of this book is to provide this comprehensive overview for students and professionals alike in how to think about and to navigate the necessary development process for healthcare product candidates, including biologics, new chemical entities, and other related products that address medical need. This instructional text enables anyone at any level or in any sector of the industry to easily achieve a basic knowledge of the critical steps (or the questions to ask) to properly evaluate an idea or technology, develop a viable product candidate, and ultimately advance it to the marketplace.

Expertly conceived and crafted by co-editors Fred Mermelstein, Richard Prince, and Carl Novina, with a foreword by Nobel Laureate Philip Sharp, this book features 22 chapters written by renowned subject matter experts in their respective fields. Collectively, these chapters illuminate and unify the healthcare products innovation process, spanning from academia to industry, from research to commercialization. Chapters are organized into five sections:

Carl D. Novina, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He received his M.D. from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and his Ph.D. from Tufts University, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Phillip Sharp. Dr. Novina's laboratory has made several important discoveries about the biology of noncoding RNAs, their dysregulation in cancers, and their development as biomedical tools to address unmet medical needs. His laboratory has developed platform technologies to discover and drug noncoding RNA functions and has engineered tools for epigenetic and cellular therapies. Dr. Novina has established numerous collaborations with clinicians and industry partners to accelerate the translation of these tools to the clinic. Dr. Novina is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award, American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, W.M. Keck Distinguished Young Scholars Award, Department of Defense Idea Award, The NCI Director's Provocative Questions Award, and the National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Project Award. He is also the recipient of the prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award, which funds high-risk research with transformative potential.

Dr. Richard Prince is CEO, Now Biopharma, LLC. Now Biopharma is a boutique Clinical CRO (with a specialization in performing acute care trials) and a Life Science Consultancy (with expertise in helping start-up companies succeed). Dr. Prince has expertise in Life Science Entrepreneurship, C-level Management, Strategy, Scientific Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Operations, Clinical Development, and Operations Facilitation. Dr. Prince is also President and Partner, Pollination Ventures Management LLC, a management firm that evaluates and advises promising new life science startups on corporate structures and development.

Note: Minors in management, anthropology, pharmacology and toxicology, biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental studies, foreign language, medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutics may be used to fulfill all or part of the technical electives required for the BS degree in biotechnology. Students must meet with a representative of the department/program offering the minor prior to the fall semester of the junior year, as many departments have strict rules regarding prerequisites, course sequence and minimum GPA for acceptance to and completion of the minor. Students should consult the relevant listings in the Undergraduate Catalog for specifics concerning each minor.

A Curricular Plan provides a roadmap for completing this academic program and the UB Curriculum on time. Your actual plan may vary depending on point of entry to the university, course placement and/or waivers based on standardized test scores, earned alternative credit and/or college transfer credit.

Free Pre-Meeting Half-day workshop on Bioinformatics Tools for Plant Genomics (Wednesday November 29th; 12-5pm): A half-day workshop will be sponsored by the Gramene (NSF #1127112) and CyVerse (NSF # 1265383) projects, and will cover public bioinformatics tools and resources in support of reference genome assemblies, automated prediction and community curation of gene annotations, and data submission of RNA-seq and other omics data to public repositories such as Track Hub. Lunch and coffee will be included. See more information and registration (limit 30) here.

We are pleased to announce the tenth Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting, Plant Genomes & Biotechnology, which will begin on the evening of Wednesday, November 29, 2017, and end after lunch on Saturday, December 2. Abstracts should contain new and unpublished material. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs.

All abstracts must be submitted by the abstract deadline. Late registrations may be accepted after the abstract deadline if the meeting is not oversubscribed. In the event of over-subscription, every effort will be made to ensure that all groups who wish to participate will be represented. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

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