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October 2019
Literature Mastery Seminar | Summer O’Brien, MS Student
Join us as Master of Science in Applied Life Sciences student Summer O'Brien speaks about investigating Bacillus thuringiensis's vegetative insecticidal proteins VIP1 and VIP2. “Entomopathogenic Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram-positive spore forming bacterium that has been used for more than 60 years as a bio-insecticide in agriculture, transgenic crops, and forestry. Vegetative insecticidal proteins (Vips) are secreted by many Bacillus thuringiensis strains during their vegetative growth stage and are unique from known insecticidal crystal proteins. Vip is a binary toxin that…
Find out more »Academic Success Seminar: Beginner Excel Workshop
This two-part series of hands-on workshops will be led by Professor Anna Hickerson and is open to all KGI students. This first session is an introduction to using Excel efficiently and effectively. Focus skills will include: importing and sorting data, using formulas, referencing cells, using common built-in functions, and basic plots and figures.
Find out more »Industry Talk: Daniel Zakowski from Ready, Set, Food!
Join us at this lunchtime event for an Industry Talk by Daniel Zakowski, CEO at Ready, Set, Food! 32 million Americans suffer from severe food allergies, but in recent years three different clinical trials have shown that parents can help prevent up to 80% of childhood food allergies. The process is to feed allergenic foods at 4 months of age and continue frequently feeding. The problem is that at 4 months of age babies are not typically good enough at…
Find out more »Academic Success Seminar: Intermediate Excel Workshop
This two-part series of hands-on workshops will be led by professor Anna Hickerson and is open to all KGI students. This intermediate workshop will include: importing non-excel data, conditional formatting, pivot tables, and embedded logic functions such as if() and or() to create simple algorithms.
Find out more »November 2019
2019 KGI with IPS & INTERPHEX Bioprocessing Conference: “Bioprocessing for Advanced Medicinal Therapeutic Products”, & KGI Annual Amgen Bioprocessing Center Advisory Board Meeting
KGI, along with IPS & INTERPHEX, invite you to join our students, faculty, and distinguished guest speakers for the Bioprocessing Conference: "Bioprocessing for Advanced Medicinal Therapeutic Products". This annual event will be chaired by the 2019 Amgen Bioprocessing Center Advisory Board Chair Dr. Jay Stout, President of Sage BioSolutions (formerly of Versartis, Merck). Along with KGI's Master's & PhD students showcasing their industry sponsored projects and research, several distinguished speakers will present on topics related to bioprocessing and engineering processes…
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