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2010 STEMtech ConferenceConcurrent Session Presentation
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St. Louis Community College
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Sustaining Cutting Edge Techniques in Biotechnology
ProgramsEilene Lyons
Kevin Toal
Elizabeth Boedeker
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St. Louis Community College –Florissant Valley Campus
BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
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First Biotechnology Program in Missouri
• Started Fall 1999
• Research and Development based
• AAS and Certificate of Specialization degrees
• Half of declared majors - BS or higher
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Program Success
• 270 students since program inception
• 96 AAS & CS Degrees awarded
• 64 Declared Majors currently
• 91% life science job placement of core course completers
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Job Placement
• bioMerieux
• Centocor
• Covidien
• Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
• Millipore Drug Discovery
• Monsanto
• Pfizer
• Washington University Research Labs
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Maintaining an Innovative Cutting Edge Curriculum
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• Greenomes: Plant Molecular Genetics and Genomics 2004 UT-Austin
– Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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• Genomics: From Mendel to Microchips
– UC-DAVIS NSF Workshop 2005
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• Summer Fellowship at Pfizer St. Louis 2006
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• FAS – Ireland’s Bio Manufacturing Training Facility, Carrigaline, County Cork, Ireland
2008
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• NSF BIO Manufacturing Conference and Workshops, July 2008 & 2010
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• Bio-Link Summer Fellows Forum
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STLCC Biotechnology Program
Curriculum
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COURSES CREDIT HOURS
ENG:101 College Composition I 3
COM:101 Oral Communication 3
MTH:160 College Algebra or higher 4
xxx:xxx Social Science Elective 3
xxx:xxx History Requirement (by State of MO) 3
PE:xxx Physical Education 2
PHL:109 Bio-Medical Ethics 3
GE:101 Technical Computer Applications 3
CHM:105 General Chemistry I 5
CHM:106 General Chemistry II 5
BIO:140 Principles of Biology I 4
BIO:104 Basic Laboratory Methods 3
BIO:152 Quantitative Methods in Biotechnology 2
BIO:218 Microbiology for Biotechnology 4
BIO:219 Biotechnology I 5
BIO:220 Biotechnology II 5
BIO:221 Work Place Learning: Biotechnology 3
BIO:225 Genetics 5
BIO:226 *Advanced Topics in Biotechnology (2 courses) 6
TOTAL 71
AAS DEGREE
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COURSES CREDIT HOURS
BIO:104 Basic Laboratory Methods 3
BIO:219 Biotechnology I 5
BIO:220 Biotechnology II 5
BIO:226 *Advanced Topics in Biotechnology (2 courses) 6
TOTAL 19
CERTIFICATE OF SPECIALIZATION
CORE BIOTECH COURSES
Post Baccalaureate
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Curriculum Approval can be slow…
• How do you keep pace with cutting edge topics and lab techniques?
– Special Problems Courses: stop gap measure
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Advanced Topics in Biotech
• A single flexible course with a generic course description:
This lecture/laboratory course consists of current techniques used in biotechnology research and industry. Topics can include, but are not limited to, techniques from biomedical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental, microbiological, bioprocessing, biocomputing, and/or bioethical aspects of biotechnology. Life science research and industry scientists will be employed as instructors. Additional lab hours required.
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Advanced Topics in Biotechnology
• Forensics
• Proteomics
• QPCR
• Plant Transformation
• RNAi
• Bioprocessing
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Advanced Topics
Forensics
Elizabeth Boedeker
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Forensics
• Former Forensic Scientist with Illinois State Police (Chicago)
• Forensic Biologist
• Forensic DNA Analyst
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Forensics
• General techniques
– In forensics
– Useful in many aspects of biotechnology/science
• Illustrate concepts and ideas
• Controls
– Their importance in science in general
– Their critical role in forensics
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Forensics: DNA profile
• Almost half of time
• Process is long
– Buccal swabs from cheek
– DNA isolation and clean-up
• Phenol/chloroform extractions
• Spin column (microcon)
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Forensics: DNA quantitation
• Electrophoresis
– Lambda DNA as standards
– Known quantities for comparison
• Human Alu Quantitative PCR
– Adapted from scientific literature
– Known quantities for comparison
– Highly accurate method
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Forensics: PCR set-up
• Using quantitation from previous labs
• Target optimum amount of DNA
• PCR
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Forensics: Capillary Electrophoresis
• PCR products
• Run instrument
• Assign allele calls, develop profile
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Forensics: Summary
• Use techniques wide-spread in Biotech lab setting
• Apply critical troubleshooting and analysis skills
• Application-based learning universally applied
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Advanced Topics
Introduction to Proteomics
Kevin Toal
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Proteomics
The study of protein structure and function.
• mammalian cell culture
• protein biochemistry
– SDS-PAGE, western-blot, 2D-gel, imaging
– mass spectrometry basics
(Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Proteomics Laboratory)
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Very Marketable
• Clinical
–Washington University School of Medicine
– Saint Louis University School of Medicine
• Protein expression and disease
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Very Marketable
• Pharmaceutical
– Millipore, Pfizer, Sigma
• Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) function
• often mAbs; protein reagents
• Agriculture
– Monsanto
• Bt toxin
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Proteomics Workflow
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/figures/1471-2105-7-430-1-l.jpg
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Advanced Topics
Quantitative PCR
Elizabeth Boedeker
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qPCR
• Adaptation to traditional PCR
• More widely used for expression analysis
– Previously Northern blot
• Time
• Quantity of material
• Not as straight-forward as originally thought
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• Sample
– Quantitation
– INTEGRITY
• Especially for gene expression
• Frequently overlooked
• Exposure to numerous ways to measure
qPCR: Sample assessmentA Conc. 110 ng/ul
Ratio: 2.5
RIN: 10
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• Different types of analysis methods
– ΔΔCt method
– Efficiency-corrected
– Some exposure to scientific literature
qPCR: Data Analysis
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qPCR: Summary
• Actual lab work not that difficult
• Analysis methods/data processing can be complex
• Critical assessment of data essential
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Advanced Topics
Plant Transformation
Kevin Toal
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Plant TransformationProcess
www.nature.com/.../fig_tab/nbt0305-309_F1.html
Isolate gene of interest (GOI) and construct plasmidTransform plasmid into AgrobacteriumCo-cultivate bacterium with susceptible cells
from crop plantSelect for positive transformantsRegenerate cells to fertile plants and test for
GOI activity
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Plant Transformation
Transgenic plant technology
Improved nutrition (“golden rice”; beta-carotene)
Insect resistance (Bacillus thuringiensis)
Disease resistance (tobacco mosaic virus)
Herbicide resistance (“Round-up-Ready®”)
Biopharmaceuticals (hGH, vaccine antigens, trypsin)
80% U.S. corn, soybean, and cotton crops are transgenic
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“Plant-Ag Biotech”
St. Louis, MO has the largest number of plant PhDs per capita in the U.S.
STLCC has placed students as both interns and full-time employees at the following firms
– Monsanto
– Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
– Solae
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Advanced Topics
RNA Interference (RNAi)
Elizabeth Boedeker
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RNAi: Cutting Edge Technology
• Very new (less than 15 years) in Biotechnology
• Shakes previous ideas
• Fascinating regulatory mechanism
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RNAi: Illustrating it
• Previous experience with Lentivirus-based systems
• Nematodes (C. Elegans)
– Many initial experiments
– Very nice teaching system
– Lots of variation for demonstration
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RNAi: Illustrating it
• Cell culture based systems
– Use previously learned knowledge
– Add to them
• Transfection of cells
• Isolation of cellular materials for analysis– DNA
– RNA
– Protein
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RNAi: Experimental Set-up
• Not straight-forward
• Controls Essential for interpretation
– Without proper controls
misinterpretation likely
– What are proper controls
– When it is not possible
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RNAi: Summary
• One of today’s hot topics
• Concepts of the technology
• Exposure to literature surrounding RNAi
• Practical experience
– Previous exposure used in a new way
– Critical skills
• Controls
• Troubleshooting
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Advanced Topics
Bioprocessing/Biomanufacturing
Kevin Toal
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What is Bioprocessing?
The use of microorganisms, cells in culture, or enzymes to manufacture products
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Bioprocessing at STLCC
Students trained in the theory and practice of:
– separating and purifying proteins, recombinant DNA products and monoclonal antibodies using HPLC (HIC, affinity, ion exchange).
– use of small-scale bioreactors (5 to 10 L scale)
– mammalian and insect cell culture
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National Landscape
• Numerous graduate programs currently being developed in biomanufacturing and bioprocessing
• 2010 Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.biomanufacturing.uga.edu/
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Bioprocessing Equipment
Small-scaleFermentor/Bioreactor
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Bioprocessing Equipment
Waters HPLCBuck Scientific HPLC
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Future Advanced TopicsBio-Medical Self-Assembled Nano-Monolayers
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)
Cell Culture
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BIO-BENCH Contract Research Organization
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What do we do?
• Researchers
– Academic institutions
• WUMS
• SLU
– Start-up companies
• GoldenSoy, LLC
• Theramind, LLC
• Others
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Define Projects
• Work with individuals
• Help them to define
– Specific experiments they need
– Final results they are expecting
• Realistic expectations
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Primary Goal
• Continue the education of our students
• Provide a more “real world” lab experience
– Defined project from client
– Not just “practice”
– Results are important
– Timelines
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Secondary Goals
• Resource for area
– Lab space
– High end equipment/instruments
• Assistance
– Lab work
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Bio-Bench CRO: Summary
• Education
– Internships for our students
– Requirement of our program
– Real lab experience
• Resource
– Valuable to the area
– Personnel and instrumentation
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Scholarships• NSF S-STEM Grant
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St. Louis Stem Scholars Academy –The S3 Academy
• Increased the number of academically talented but financially needy students who receive associate degrees in biotechnology, chemical technology, computer science, engineering science, engineering technology
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The S3 Academy
• Built a community of S3 scholars
• Improved academic success for S3 Academy students
• Facilitated transfer of S3 Academy graduates into employment or baccalaureate programs
• Strengthened partnerships between STLCC-FV and educational institutions and relevant business and industry.
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Thank you for your attention.
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Questions?
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