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Biotech Club Overview

Biotech Club Overview. Fall 2013, First Semester. Mission Statement. To introduce the field of biotechnology to other students, share and discuss ideas, and research specific areas of biotech. Our main objective is to create a forum in which there is a constant flow of ideas between members.

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Biotech Club Overview

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  1. Biotech Club Overview Fall 2013, First Semester

  2. Mission Statement • To introduce the field of biotechnology to other students, share and discuss ideas, and research specific areas of biotech. • Our main objective is to create a forum in which there is a constant flow of ideas between members.

  3. What is Biotech? • “[T]he art of utilizing living organisms and their products for the production of food, drink, medicine or for other benefits to the human race, or other animal species” • In other words, biotech is the use of living things and their components to improve people’s lives

  4. Officers • Elia Chen – President • ZehanMistry – Vice President • Victoria Morris – Manager of Experimentation • Yifei Wu – Manager of Experimentation • Kinnari Shah – Manager of Research • John Zhang – Manager of Research • Amy Tsai – Secretarial Manager • Clarissa Qian – Financial Manager

  5. Member Info • Meetings are: • Every other Tuesday • Lunch • B103 • Sign up online: • http://mvbiotech.weebly.com/join.html • Membership donation is $10 • You can also buy a shirt for $6 • Send questions here: • mvbiotechclub@gmail.com

  6. Tentative Semester Calendar • September 18 – First meeting; food and intros • October 2 – Working with pipets • October 16 – Presentation • October 30 – Experiment • November 13 - Presentation • November 27 – Experiment • December 11 - Discussion

  7. Highlights from last year • Plastic Milk Experiment • Milk to Plastic • Guest Speaker: Julie Tai • Drug-eluting stents • Manager and Research in Abbott Vascular • Resistance in Bacteria Experiment • Research Paper Competition • Silicon Valley Biotech Explorers • Affiliation • Stanford guest speakers • sivbiotech@gmail.com

  8. Next meeting • Learn how to use pipettes!

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