Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge

Submitted by bblanks on Fri, 2010-08-13 10:06

Application Deadline: March 21, 2012

Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge Event

April 19, 2012 at the J. David Gladstone Institutes, Mission Bay

What you need to succeed:

  • You must be a student (Grades 9 to 12) currently enrolled in biology or other science-related course in a Bay Area school.
  • You must have a project mentor/advisor.
  • Projects must have a biotechnology or biomedical science application.  Biotechnology is defined as “the use of biological processes or systems to solve problems or produce goods and services.”
  • Research presented in 2012 must be new research or build significantly upon a previous year’s project.
  • Each student may submit one abstract.

Importance Notice Regarding Group Projects!

Under the following conditions a group project is eligible for the Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge:

  • Each group member must submit their own application, write their own abstract and present their own poster.
  • It must be crystal clear from the abstract, the poster, and the oral presentation what unique contribution the student made.
  • Students are allowed to mention the group component but are not allowed to report on other students' findings, other than for contextual relevance.
  • During the Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge, each group member is treated as an individual entrant.  Please note that to be fair to other entrants, only one group member will be chosen as a finalist.

Step-by-Step: 

If you live in the Bay Area and enter a 9-12th grade science fair project involving biotechnology at any of the science fairs listed below you may also qualify for the Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge.  It’s a second chance to win!   

Fair Date; Fair Name; Website

The three 2011 Bay Area BioGENEius Finalists were:

Elliott Akama-Garren, a senior at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, CA. Akama-Garren’s project, From Cancer to Autoimmune Disease: Selective Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis, identified a treatment to minimize infections for patients with Multiple Sclerosis  Read his abstract here

Jennifer Chen, a 12th grader from Lynbrook High School in San Jose, CA. Chen’s project, Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing-based Human Identification, intended to reduce the backlog of forensic DNA samples that is impeding the criminal justice system. Read her abstract here

Revanth Kosaraju, an 11th grade student from The Harker School in San Jose, CA. Kosaraju’s project, titled A Novel Perfusion-Based Protocol For Decellularization of Adipose Tissue on a Bioreactor, sought to develop a novel perfusion-based protocol to decellularize adipose tissue on a bioreactor. Read his abstract here

 

Primary Contact:

Sheryl P. Denker, PhD
BayBio Institute
Sr. Program Advisor
400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 221
South San Francisco, CA 94080
sheryl@baybio.org

Related Content: 
Local BioGENEius Challenges
U.S. National BioGENEius Challenge