Career Fair    |     Registration    l   Symposium Schedule  l  Workshop Information   l  CC Saturday Special     l  Speaker Biographies
Sponsor/Exhibitor/Recruiter Registration     |   Faculty/Staff Registration     l    Student Registration    l    CC  Registration     |    Workshop Registration
Poster Abstract Information    l     Poster Size     |     Lodging and Meals     l Travel Reimbursement     l Directions to Sheraton Fairplex    l     Previous Symposia Topics

ALL CSU FACULTY/STAFF TRAVEL, LODGING AND MEALS COVERED [Travel Reimbursement] [Lodging and Meals]
ALL CSU STUDENT LODGING AND MEALS COVERED [Lodging and Meals]
ALL CSU STUDENT POSTER PRESENTERS' TRAVEL COVERED [Travel Reimbursement]
ALL CA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY MEALS COVERED  [Meals]

Career Fair:
CSUPERB and Circle1: the recruitment solution are proud to join together to present the 2003 Biotechnology Career Fair from 11:00am to 6:00pm on Thursday, January 9, 2003.  Circle1 is the leader in hosting career events for biotechnology and pharmaceutical employers in North America.  Their fairs bring in leading companies from the Hi-Tech sectors such as information technology, software, hardware, robotics, fibre-optics, and engineering; and from the Bio-Pharmaceutical sectors such as biopharma, biotech, bio informatics, medical devices, health care and therapeutics. This is an opportune moment for candidates to meet with the hiring managers of major companies. Bring plenty of resumes and be ready to be interviewed on the spot.  Some of the companies that have participated or are currently participating with Circle1 include: Kforce, Merck, Inex, Wyeth, Abbott, Glaxo, Via Cell, Biopure, Acambis, Millipore, Amgen, Chungai Biopharmaceuticals, Anadys Pharmaceutical, Patheon and Apotex.  Students - register for the Career Fair on your Symposium Registration Page.

Sponsorship, Exhibition and Career Fair:
We invite companies to review the varied sponsorship, exhibition and career fair opportunities for the 2003 CSU Biotechnology Symposium. Each type of support provides a range of benefits, allows your organization to gain valuable exposure, and supports education and research in biotechnology.

Procedure for Sponsors, Exhibitors and Recruiters:
 

1)	Register your interests for participating in the symposium by faxing or mailing the “Sponsor, Exhibitor and Career Fair Interest Form” from the prospectus ( for a copy of the sponsorship, exhibition and career fair prospectus - PDF format that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader;   for the "Sponsor,  Exhibitor and Career Fair Interest Form" in word.doc);
2)	Await confirmation from us that the requested sponsorship, exhibition and/or career fair booth is still available. We will contact you by mail with a confirmation letter and contract;
3)	Sign and return the completed contract to us along with a check for payment;
4)	Fill in the Sponsor, Exhibitor and Recruiter Registration form on our website (  for the registration web page.)

Please  for a copy of the sponsorship, exhibition and career fair prospectus (PDF format that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) .  The following is a current list of sponsors, exhibitors and recruiters.
 

Sponsors	Exhibitions	Career Fair Recruiters
Ambion: www.ambion.com Canji: www.sgp.com  [Parent Corporation is Schering-Plough]	Ambion: www.ambion.com BioRad: www.biorad.com Celgene: www.celgene.com Fisher Scientific:  www.fisherscientific.com McGraw Hill: www.mcgraw-hill.com NextWave: nextwave.sciencemag.org Olympus: www.olympusamerica.com Prentice Hall:  vig.prenhall.com VivaScience:  www.vivascience.com	Kforce:  www.kforce.com Merck: www.merck.com

Registration for Symposium and Workshops:
Registration will be accepted through 5:00 P.M., December 1, 2002.  Meals and lodging at the Sheraton Fairplex are available at no charge to registered CSU faculty, staff and students.  Meals at the Sheraton Fairplex are available at no charge to registered CA Community College faculty. Although late registrations will be accepted through December 15, hotel rooms cannot be guaranteed after December 1.

     To register for the Symposium, complete  the appropriate registration form:

   CSU Faculty and Staff
   CSU Students
   CA Community College Faculty

     To register for Workshops:

Separate registration is necessary for each workshop you wish to attend.  To be registered for workshops, you must also be registered for the symposium.  See the individual workshops listed below on Thursday [Morning Workshops, Afternoon Workshops] for descriptions of the workshop and appropriate links to each registration page.

Symposium Information: Each January CSUPERB presents a 3-day  Biotechnology Symposium.  This year we are pleased to have the symposium at the Sheraton Fairplex, Pomona, CA (for maps and driving directions,   then click on "View Map and Driving Directions" on the left column). The symposium includes workshops on current biotechnology topics, a poster session (100+ posters) for the presentation of undergraduate, masters and doctoral research in the CSU, nationally and internationally known speakers, and a Faculty Consensus Group meeting. This year we are proud to present a two-day vendor show and a biotechnology career fair on Thursday, January 9, 2002 in conjunction with Circle1: the recruitment solution.  The preliminary schedule is listed below:  [Thur]  [Fri]   [Sat]

WEDNESDAY, January 8: 4:00 PM-9:00 PM (Lobby): •Early Registration 6:00 PM-8:00 PM (Pavilions 1 and 2): •Dinner THURSDAY, January 9 - Workshops: 7:00 AM-9:00 AM (Fairplex 5): •Breakfast

8:00 AM-12:00 PM (Lobby): •Morning Registration

8:00 AM-12:00 PM (Fairplex 5): •Poster Set-up - for all authors All posters must be up by noon on Thursday, January 9th Note: Please see the "Listing of Posters" in the Program Booklet to determine your poster number

10:00 AM-11:55 AM (Carousel Ballroom): •Morning Workshop New Technologies: Select biotechnology companies will discuss their new & innovative platform technologies. A panel session will also be held to discuss possible mechanisms to introduce these technologies into faculty research & laboratory instructional activities. [   to register for the New Technologies workshop] 10:00 AM-6:00 PM (Fairplex 5): •

11:00 AM-6:00 PM (Pepper Street): •

12:00 PM-1:00 PM (Fairplex 5):  •Lunch 1:00 PM-6:00 PM (Lobby): •Afternoon Registration 1:15 PM-6:00 PM (Carousel Ballroom; Pavilion 1; Pavilion 2): •Afternoon Workshops  1:15 - 3:00 PM Intellectual Property Topics: This session will provide basic & essential information on the process of IP protection, technology transfer & commercialization.  Presented by Laurie Axford, Morrison & Foerester, LLP and Jim Ritchey, Chemistry, CSU Sacramento.      [   to register for the Intellectual Property Topics workshop] 1:15 - 2:30 PM Agricultural Biotechnology - Monsanto: This workshop will cover the following topics regarding agriculture biotechnology:  Why U.S. growers have adopted the technology; traits that have been commercialized; traits that are being researched and are expected to be commercialized in the near future; the regulatory process/requirements for environmental safety, food and feed safety, molecular characterization, and insect resistant management; grower and public acceptance and why each group feels the way they do; sharing technology with developing nations.  Employment opportunities with agriculture biotechnology companies will be discussed; type of careers available, educational requirements, what it takes to be employed and succeed in business, etc.  Time will be set aside for questions and answers.      [   to register for the Agricultural Biotechnology-Monsanto workshop] 2:30 - 4:00 PM NextWave: This workshop will help those new to NextWave.  The Next Wave subscription, paid for by CSUPERB, is now up and running on your local CSU campus. It is a career resource tool for science students and faculty. All you have to do is go to the Next Wave website http://nextwave.sciencemag.org on any networked computer on your campus to use the resource. Science's Next Wave is the weekly online publication that focuses on the careers of scientists—from undergraduates to faculty.  Next Wave is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science magazine.  The site includes weekly news, alternative career profiles, discussion forums, career advice and funding information.      [   to register for the NextWave workshop] 3:00 - 6:00 PM On-line Courses: In a follow-up to our last year's workshop on on-line courses, a series of lectures will be held on creation and maintenance of courses in the molecular life sciences, biotechnology and related fields.  The movement of curriculum into the synchronous and asynchronous long-distance, remote arenas is happening at an accelerating pace.  These sessions will discuss mechanics, technologies, assessments and proven case studies.  Presented by the Center for Distance Learning, Interwork Institute, SDSU.      [   to register for the On-line Courses workshop] 3:00 - 6:00 PM Bio-Rad Proteomics and Protein Array Technologies: Bio-Rad Laboratories presents a technology workshop on Proteomics and Protein Arrays:  Proteomics is the systematic analysis of protein functions and expression patterns in tissues and involves the isolation, separation, identification and functional characterization of the proteins in an organism. Bio-Rad Laboratories presents the ProteomeWorks system: an integrated set of tools and technologies that enable protein function discovery. Take the investigation further using the Bio-Plex Protein Array System for profiling multiple biomolecules in a single sample. For more information go to discover.bio-rad.com      [   to register for the Proteomics and Protein Array workshop] 4:00 PM-6:00 PM (Fairplex 5): •Poster Session 1           Selection of the Don Eden Student Research Award Recipient 6:00 PM-7:00 PM (Fairplex 5): •Dinner 7:15 PM-8:45 PM (Carousel Ballroom): •Evening Workshop Bioethics Activity: In an audience interactive approach, the session will address a variety of difficult & complex biotechnological & biomedical situations requiring an ultimate decision. Society faces an ever increasing number of such decisions both as new biomedical technologies arise & as pressure to solve age-old devastating human maladies increases.  Presented by Dr. Greg Milman from the NIH.

8:45 PM-11:00 PM (Carousel Ballroom D): •Poster Session: CSUPERB Faculty Grant Awardees in the Year 2000 Faculty who received CSUPERB grants in the Year 2000 will present posters on the nature of the research and projects.

8:45 PM-11:00 PM (Lobby):  •Wine and Cheese Reception

FRIDAY, January 10:

7:00 AM-9:00 AM (Fairplex 5): •Breakfast 8:00 AM-12:00 PM (Lobby): •Morning Registration

8:00 AM (Carousel Ballroom): •Welcome by Bob Suzuki, President, Cal Poly Pomona

8:15 AM-11:55 AM (Carousel Ballroom): •Plenary Session: “Biotechnology, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering”    Introduction by  A. Stephen Dahms           Facilitated by John Watson, Director, Clinical and Molecular Medicine,            NIH Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 8:15 AM-9:05 AM: David Tirrell (invited), Chair, Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering "Biomaterials: Challenges and Opportunities" 9:05 AM-9:55 AM: Bob Greenburg, Second Sight "Biomaterials and Implantable Devices" 9:55 AM-10:15 AM: BREAK 10:15 AM-11:05 AM: Gail Naughton, President and CEO, Advanced Tissue Sciences "Tissue Engineering and Human Hybrids" 11:05 AM-11:55 AM: Ron Sahatjan, Vice President of Corporate Technology, Boston Scientific "Pharmaceuticals and Biologics and the Interface with the Medical Device Industry: Combination Devices and New Materials"   10:00 AM-6:00 PM (Fairplex 5): • 12:00 PM-1:45 PM (Fairplex 5): •Lunch and Featured Speaker  Introductions  Crellin Pauling Student Teaching Assistant Award Featured Speaker 2:00 PM-6:00 PM (Lobby): •Afternoon Registration

2:00 PM-2:55 PM (Carousel Ballroom): •2002-2003 CSU Biotechnology Faculty Research Award Lecture                   Recipient and Presenter TBA 3:00 PM-3:55 PM (Carousel Ballroom): •The CSUPERB Careers in the Bioscience Industry Lecture Series   Speakers TBA 3:00 PM-4:00 PM (Pavilions 1 and 2): •New Technologies II   Speakers TBA 4:00 PM-6:00 PM (Fairplex 5):  •Poster Session 2           Selection of the Don Eden Student Research Award Recipient 6:00 PM-7:25 PM  (Fairplex 5): •Banquet   Announcement and Presentation of the Don Eden Student Research Award   Introduction by Robert Koch, PhD, CSU Fullerton   Presented by Lisba Fowler   CSU Biotechnology Service Award: The Andreoli Award   Recipient and Master of Ceremony TBA 7:30 PM-8:30 PM (Carousel Ballroom): •Amgen Lectureship   Introduction by A. Stephen Dahms   Alfred Mann, Chairman of the Board and CEO, MannKind Corporation 8:30 PM-10:30 PM (Lobby):  •Wine and Cheese Reception

SATURDAY, January 11: 7:00 AM-9:00 AM (Salon D): •Breakfast

7:45 AM-12:15 PM (Pavilion 1 and 2): •CSU Biotechnology Program Faculty Consensus Group Semi-Annual Meeting 12:15 PM-1:30 PM (Salon D): •Lunch 8:00 AM-5:00 PM (Courtyard): "Saturday Special" Augmenting and Enhancing Your Biotech Program  Hear about your colleagues' exciting new progress with a Biomanufacturing Faculty Internship Experience ,  new Bioinformatics Curriculum, "The New Genetics" CD Project, and Student Recruitment Ideas and Materials.  AGENDA FOR SATURDAY SPECIAL Co-sponsored by CSUPERB,  The California Community Colleges Biological Technologies Initiative and   Bio-Link -  the National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education  Center for Biotechnology  7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast in Salon D 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Arrival and registration 8:30 AM - 8:40 AM Welcome Remarks - Mary Pat Huxley, Statewide Biotechnology Initiative Director  8:40AM - 10:20 AM "Biomanufacturing Faculty Internship Experience" or "How we spent five weeks in biomanufacturing boot camp!" -  Ram Gurumurthy, Roya Lahijani, Doug Welch, Jerry Lynch and Ric Matthews (invited) 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM Open Discussion of Biomanufacturing - Group  10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Updates on Successes and Challenges in Implementing Bioinformatics at the Community Colleges - (Speakers TBA) 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch and Networking in Salon D 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM "The New Genetics" CD project update [follow-on from last year at this time] -  Elaine Johnson, BioLink Director.  1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Open Discussion of "The New Genetics" and strategies, ideas and successes with multimedia projects. 2:00 PM  - 3:00 PM Tools used in student recruitment for biotechnology - Ideas and some materials to be shared, Mary Pat Huxley as moderator. 3:00 PM Adjourn Special Note to Community College Faculty:  You are welcome to attend any part of the CSUPERB Annual Conference.  If you are attending any time on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, you MUST register with CSUPERB.  Although CSUPERB cannot pay for any of your travel or lodging, you do need to register with them so they know how many people will be attending and eating, as they do cover the cost of meals for  CC faculty members. Please  and register for the symposium and Saturday Special.  Travel and lodging must be paid by the community college attendee.  The ED>Net Biotech Center Directors often sponsor travel funds for faculty members to attend this conference.  Contact them directly. If you do not know your regional director and center,  please go to www.cccbiotech.org to find the appropriate director and center.  In partnership with CSUPERB, The "Saturday Special" is sponsored by: The Applied Biological Technologies Initiative of the California Community Colleges Economic Development Network - Mary Pat Huxley, State Director, (805) 648 8977 - email: mphuxley@vcccd.net And by Bio-Link, the National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education Center in Biotechnology, located at City College San Francisco, serving the community colleges of the United States - Dr. Elaine Johnson, Director. (415) 487 2472 - email: EJohnson@biolink.ucsf.edu

Travel Reimbursement:     [Faculty]     [Student]
Faculty: All CSU Faculty are eligible for full reimbursement of travel expenses incurred in attending the symposium.  To be reimbursed, please follow the reimbursement procedures provided on the Faculty Travel Reimbursement Procedures section of the CSUPERB website,  .  You must have your Travel Expense Claim Form and all original receipts submitted to your college/department travel clerk by Feb 14, 2003, for reimbursement. No claims will be accepted after Feb 14, 2003.  (You do not need to apply through the Faculty Travel Grants Program, nor will you need to include lodging and meals since they will be covered through your symposium registration.)

Student: A portion of the CSUPERB travel fund will be set aside to cover round-trip travel for CSU students presenting posters at the Annual CSUPERB Biotechnology Symposium.  As many students as possible will be supported; it is anticipated that a $150 per student limit will be applied for travel to the Symposium. To be reimbursed, please follow the reimbursement procedures on the Student Travel Reimbursement Procedures section of the CSUPERB website,. You must have your Travel Expense Claim Form and all original receipts submitted to your college/department travel clerk by Feb 14, 2003, for reimbursement. No claims will be accepted after Feb 14, 2003. Please pay special attention to the eligibility requirements; in addition to presenting a poster, each student must be a CSU employee. If the student will not be a paid employee during the period of time of the travel to the symposium (such as teaching/research assistant or work study), the student may sign up as a voluntary employee for that time period. The student must do this prior to the travel by filling out the appropriate forms at the Personnel Office.  This process may take several days, so plan accordingly. You do not need to apply through the Student Travel Grants Program, nor will you need to include lodging and meals since they will be covered by your registration.
Poster Size:   8' wide by 4' tall

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