Summer School
The BioPACIFIC MIP Summer School offers a week-long opportunity to learn about scalable production of bio-derived building blocks and polymers.
Summer School 2024:
In-person workshops from July 15-19, 2024 at UCSB and UCLA
Summer School 2023:
The 2023 Summer School took place on July 10-14 with hands-on workshops and topical lectures for a cohort of in-person participants.
Summer School 2022:
The 2022 Summer School took place on July 17-22 as a hybrid program with hands-on workshops for a cohort of in-person participants and broadly accessible topical lectures. Video recordings of the presentations are available on this page.
Summer School 2021:
The 2021 Summer School took place on August 2-5 as a virtual program, open to the broad biomaterials community. Video recordings of the presentations are available on this page.
Summer School Recordings
Summer School 2024 - Plastics Redesign for Biorenewable Circularity - Brett Helms
Summer School 2024 - Serendipity Lights the Way - Javier Read de Alaniz
Summer School 2024 - How to make effective Graphical Abstracts
Summer School 2023 - Science Writing - Joshua Schimel
Summer School 2023 - Preparing Figures for Publications and Presentations - Ram Seshadri
Summer School 2022 - Welcome; BioPACIFIC MIP Overview - Javier Read de Alaniz, Heather Maynard
Summer School 2022 - BioMADE: Building a Sustainable, Domestic End-to-End Bioindustrial Manufacturing Ecosystem
Summer School 2022 - An Introduction to Experimental Design in Synthetic Chemistry - Paul Murray
Summer School 2022 - Practical Approaches for the Design and Synthesis of Sequence-defined Peptoid Polymers - Ron Zuckermann
Summer School 2022 - Development of IBM Lab DCS Software Platform - Pedro Arrechea and Tim Erdmann, IBM
Summer School 2022 - Preparing Figures for Publications and Presentations - Ram Seshadri
Summer School 2022 - Panel: Careers in Biomaterials: BASF, Carbon, Ginko
Summer School 2022 - Speed Pitch Competition Finals
Summer School 2021 - Welcome; Summer School Overview - J. Read de Alaniz and H. Maynard
Summer School 2021 - Scientific Opportunities of Automating Materials Synthesis - J. Schrier
Summer School 2021 - Synthetic Biology for Chemical Production - Y. Tang
Summer School 2021 - Synthetic Biology and Automation for Drug Discovery from Fungi - C. Harvey
Summer School 2021 - Panel: Careers in Biomaterials. BASF, 3M, Solvay
Summer School 2021 - Practical Approaches in Electron Diffraction - J. Rodriguez
Summer School 2021 - An Introduction to Mango Materials and PHAs - A. Cal
Summer School 2021 - Individual Development Plans - S. Lee, J. Speros, S. Veve, P. Cvetkovic, A. Lubin
Summer School 2021 - Introduction to Automated Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis - C. Quick
Summer School 2021 - Machine Learning-Guided Materials Discovery Enabled by Automated Copolymer Synthesis - F. Leibfarth
Summer School 2021 - Solutions for R&D Automation Developed by Chemists - B. Schmidt
Summer School 2021 - High-Throughput Characterization of Microstructure and Microrheology - M. Valentine and M. Helgeson
Summer School 2021 - Multiscale Modeling of Complex Polymeric Materials - S. Shell
Summer School 2021 - Standard Representations for Polymer Data - B. Olsen
Summer School 2021 - Self-driving Laboratories for Materials Discovery - A. Aspuru-Guzik
Summer School 2021 - Panel: Careers in Biomaterials: Apeel, Mango, Hexagon
Summer School 2021 - Digital Manufacturing of Polymeric Products - J. M. DeSimone
