Welcome To the 2024 Summer Biotech Symposium
Program:
9:00 am - 9:10 am : Opening Remarks - Aron Kamajaya, Ph.D. (ASPIRE Director)
9:15 am - 10:00 am : Keynote Speaker, Guillermo "Willie" Zuñiga, Emeritus President, Grifols Biological. Title: Plasma Protein Therapy
10:00 am - 10:10 am: Student Lightning Talk #1, Mathew Kostoglou, Nutrient Availability and Microbial Diversity: A Symbiotic Relationship.
10:10 am - 10:20 am: Student Lightning Talk #2, Ruqaiyah Nagarwala & Alissa Perez, Discovering Novel Gas Vesicle Genes.
10:20 am - 10:30 am: Student Lightning Talk #3, Matthew Vardanyan, Reverse Engineering a qPCR Master Mix.
10:30 am - noon : Poster session
List of Poster Presenters:
Category: Plant & Soil Science
Max Morvan, LA Pierce College,
Les Vion, LA Pierce College, Soil ain’t Dirt!; Physical, Chemical, & Biological Analysis of Prime Farmlands in California.
Category: DNA Barcoding Method Development
Maya Refua, LA Pierce College, Plant DNA Barcoding
Marcelo Cabrera, LA Pierce College, Insect Barcoding
Category: Antibiotics & Phage Discovery
Husein Fatehi, LA Pierce College, Discovery and Characterization of The Biggest Killers on Planet Earth
Lina Kuo, LA Pierce College, Novel Antibiotic Discovery in Soil Microbes
Karen Murphy, LA Pierce College, Harvesting and Discovering Nature's Cures
Liam Kay, LA Pierce College, Discovery of Antibiotic Inhibition Against Mycobacterium smegmatis
Kashish Pathak, LA Pierce College, Discovery of New Antibiotics
Category: Validation & Process Engineering
Martha Godinez & Maya Hwang, LA Pierce College, A Biochemical Approach to Microbial Validation
Matthew Vardanyan, LA Pierce College, Reverse Engineering a qPCR Reagent: SYBR Green II Master Mix
Vianney Poot, Reseda Charter High School, Engineering a Lyo Formulation for Crude Taq Extract
Category: Protein Biomanufacturing
Keith Siliezar, West LA College, Saving Hours of Manual, Hands-on Time Required for Bioprocessing By Using CGQ-LIS System
Carol Watkins, LA Pierce College, Optimizing the Biomanufacturing Process of Taq Polymerase from Crude Extract
Theophilus Sim, LA Pierce College, Optimizing The Biomanufacturing for Pfu
Category: Bioinformatics
Alissa Perez & Ruqaiyah Nagarwala, LA Pierce College, Discovering Novel Gas Vesicle Genes Through Unbiased Database Search
UPCOMING EVENTS
