Education and Outreach Resources

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  EBRsee

  EBRsee is our home for podcasts, videos, and other content on tools, technologies, and careers engineering biology aimed at increasing public awareness and engagement.

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  Curriculum Modules

  This initiative aims to build on existing resources to produce valuable teaching materials for course instructors and assistants. We are building up-to-date, agile and adaptable curriculum modules for teaching engineering biology – including dynamic classwork, lab protocols, data analysis and homework, reading and recitation, and quiz and exam materials.

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  Community Education & Outreach Activities

  Workshops, short-courses, classroom activities and hands-on training opportunities to share education and training tools in engineering biology.

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EBRC Programs and Activities

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  Mentorship Program

  The EBRC Student and Postdoc Association established this program to link students and postdocs with EBRC industry and government partners in an effort to provide a fertile research network and promote best practices for responsible innovation. Through this program, graduate students and postdocs are provided with valuable career support and professional guidance, especially those interested in careers outside of academia.

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  Student & Postdoc Association

  The EBRC Student & Postdoc Association (SPA) is an organization of graduate students and postdocs from around the world. The SPA facilitates communication between students and postdocs engaged with engineering biology throughout the United States and with EBRC Individual and Institutional Members.

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  EBRsee

  EBRsee is our home for podcasts, videos, and other content on tools, technologies, and careers engineering biology aimed at increasing public awareness and engagement.

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Working Group

The Education Working Group is responsible for coordinating educational resources, information, and activities among educators and practitioners in engineering biology-related fields. This group develops programs that support education at all levels and works with industry partners to understand workforce needs.

Chair: Mark Styczynski
Staff Director: Emily Aurand

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  Theodore Anton
  DePaul University
  Professor, English
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  Emily Aurand
  EBRC
  Director of Roadmapping and Education
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  Kaitlin Dailey
  University of Nebraska Medical Center
  Research Instructor
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  Erin Garza
  J. Craig Venter Institute
  Staff Scientist
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  Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy
  University of Nebraska Medical Center
  Professor
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  Terry Johnson
  University of Chicago
  Associate Teaching Professor
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  Cameron Kim
  Duke University
  Assistant Professor of the Practice
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  Natalie Kuldell
  BioBuilder Educational Foundation
  Executive Director
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  Aditya Kunjapur
  University of Delaware
  Assistant Professor
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  Joshua Leonard
  Northwestern University
  Associate Professor
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  Theresa Loveless
  Rice University
  Assistant Professor
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  Julius Lucks
  Northwestern University
  Associate Professor
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  Megan McSweeney
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Graduate Student
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  Vincent Noireaux
  University of Minnesota
  Professor
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  Alexandra “Lex” Patterson
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Graduate Student
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  Marilene Pavan
  LanzaTech
  Scientist
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  Janet Standeven
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Program Director
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  Mark Styczynski
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Associate Professor
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  Danielle Tullman-Ercek
  Northwestern University
  Associate Professor
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  Cătălin Voiniciuc
  University of Florida
  Associate Professor of Plant Synthetic Biology
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  R. Clay Wright
  Virginia Tech
  Assistant Professor
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  Eric Young
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Associate Professor
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