UC Davis Biotechnology Program

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Biotech Program Summer Course: Network Mapping 101 - August 30-31, 2022

Join us for a virtual course and learn how to integrate statistical, functional, multivariate and machine learning results within a publication quality network!

Topics
• Multivariate exploratory analysis and visualization - identify or review your data analysis plan
• Create, validate & visualize classification & regression machine learning predictive models
• Calculate biochemical, structural similarity and empirical networks
• Use network mapping to integrate data analysis results and create a publication quality network visualization

Prerequisites
This course is open to anyone (academic and industry) and will be targeted at beginner and intermediate practitioners of applied data analysis. A combination of lectures and demonstrations will be used to prepare students for hands-on labs allowing self-guided exploration of covered topics. Hands-on labs will employ user interface, API and code-based tools. This course will be taught virtually (Zoom).

Instructions will be provided to registered course participants on how to access all online content and tools, including R programming language 3.6.2 or higher, R Studio Desktop and Cytoscape. A special session will be hosted before the workshop to help answer any questions about installation of the required tools.

Instructor Bio
Dr. Dmitry Grapov (Founder, Creative Data Solutions) has over ten years of industry experience in a variety of biotech settings, including agricultural/plant biotech, healthcare and synthetic biology. His expertise broadly encompasses bioinformatics, data science and machine learning with specific research interests in ‘omics data integration, multivariate data analysis and visualization, network analysis and machine learning. Dr. Grapov received a BS in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Utah and a PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry with a Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology (DEB) from UC Davis. In addition to running CDS and teaching courses, he serves as the Senior Director, Data Science at Amyris.

Registration and course fee information can be found here:

Conference and Event Services | UC Davis This intensive Zoom course will be taught by Dr. Dmitry Grapov (Creative Data Solutions) on August 30-31, 2022. The course will include instruction on:

• What to Expect from a Successful Medical Device Product Development Experience

Nov 9 (Global Entrepreneurship Week!), 10:30-11:45a

Efficient and effective product development is a crucial step that sits between defining a minimum viable product and manufacturing, en route to being able to sell a desirable product to eager customers. This talk, led by experienced engineers from Triple Ring Technologies, will serve as an introduction to product development for entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, medical devices typically have high product complexity, tight budgets, and must ultimately operate in a regulated environment—and best practices can be adapted for many other hardware products on the journey to scaled-up manufacture.
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZhjP-IsHQrqv32YLpBYHzQ

Innovative Women Changing the Global Future of Food!

These Leaders in Food Innovation & Entrepreneurship are forging new ways to approach meat, dairy and seafood! Join us for this exciting virtual panel on September 15th at 6-7:30 pm PT hosted by our UC Davis Biotechnology Program & Cultivated Meat Research Consortium. Our cultivated meat research students will ask their own questions of these amazing women to learn how they are pioneering a new food system!

To register: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqc-urqjgrE9avdsVWNlz9FWHkwsABftM9

Looking forward to Sandhya Sriram, PhD, Patricia Bubner, PhD, Fengru Lin and Jess Krieger speak about their vision and their companies (Shiok Meats, Orbillion Bio (YC W21), TurtleTree, Ohayo Valley)! Hosted by Biotechnology Program Director Denneal Jamison-McClung with students Minami Ogawa, Xingyu Chen and Grace Alethea Kwong assisting with questions. Sponsored by Merck KGaA and UPSIDE Foods as a mid-week event to our UCD Short Course Seminar Series in Cultivated Meat https://ces-apps.ucdavis.edu/confreg/index.cfm?confid=1166&webid=5663, the first comprehensive academic week long training course!

(University of California, Davis Cultivated Meat researchers: Professors David Block, Keith Baar, Karen McDonald, Somen Nandi, Kent Leach, Lucas Smith, Payam Vahmani, Ameer Taha, Ned Spang, Jiandi Wan, Anita Oberholster, Daniel Sumner, Students Nick Johnson, Negulescu, Derrick, Tom Jara, Carolina F., Justin Wong, Lin-Ya Hu, Ted O'Neill, Zachary Cosenza, YAOJUN GUO)