In collaboration with the AZ Tech Council, BIO5 hosts AZ Phototonics Days, a two-day event where business professionals engage with academic and industry partners to discuss industry trends and issues. These business-building meetings are held annually in the Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building.
The Tucson Plant Breeding Institute (TPBI) offers state-of-the-art instruction and training in modern plant breeding tools such as statistics, molecular breeding, and computation. By offering modules on different topics, the Institute allows a breeder to choose courses that best fit their specific needs. The mission of the institute is to transfer current technologies to a wide audience of users, be they commercial breeders or academics interested in plant science improvement.
The BIO5 Institute hosts a Software Carpentry Workshop series for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff. Attendees are taught the scientific computing skills necessary to be productive in today’s complex research environments. For more information, contact Dr. Uwe Hilgert.
In collaboration with the Student Industry Networking Event, the BIO5 Institute provides UArizona students with the tools they need to launch their careers after graduation.
The Resilience & Independents in Aging Seminar Series is designed to facilitate aging research and foster new generations of investigators who address aging research questions. The seminar brings UArizona researchers together by sharing research findings and plans, and also provides opportunities for researchers to meet and to hear from lead investigators of aging and resilience in other research institutions, specifically the Pepper Centers.
BIO5 cohosts the Ecosystems and Genomics Seminar in collaboration with the Ecosystem Genomics Institute at UArizona. The Ecosystem Genomics Initiative seeks to uncover emergent properties and processes of ecosystems through top-down analyses of communities, populations and organisms, and bottom-up analyses of genomes, transcriptomes and metabolomes. Findings in these areas are shared through the seminar series.
In line with the spirit of BIO5’s mission, faculty, students and staff are encouraged to meet with their colleagues through the monthly Meet Your Neighbor event. Hosted in the Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building, BIO5 members have the opportunity to connect with new and old faces and develop research collaborations over donuts and coffee.
The BIO5 Institute and BioIndustry Organization Southern Arizona (BIOSA)'s annual Student Industry Networking Event (SINE) has connected hundreds of UArizona students with representatives from the Arizona bioscience industry. SINE attracts undergraduate and graduate students in life sciences, medicine, chemistry, engineering, computer and information sciences, and business programs, and put them face-to-face with 25+ bioscience organizations from across Arizona.
The BIO5 Inspiring Women in STEM event features an interactive panel of inspiring UArizona women from cross-disciplinary STEM fields share their unique life/work journeys. Panelists are representative of different career stages to offer the broadest perspective possible and offer one-on-one networking with guests after the group discussion to share additional insight.
The BIO5 Institute hosts tours for academic, industry and other community partners to share resources and enhance collaboration across the state.
