Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe.
New Addition: Biobanking Conversations (BbC #1)
This edition includes an interview with Ms. Irmi Feldman, Biorepository Manager, from the University of California, Davis to cover the work and life of a biobanker.
The Biobanking Quiz #3 (BbQ)
Here is this month’s installment of the biobanking quiz. Play the online BbQ for some fun, learning, and a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift voucher. Click here to play.
Fresh of the Biobanking Press
- Cornell Veterinary Biobank has received a $2.5M grant for the “Dog Aging Project”
- A biobank of breeds to reduce the number of research chickens
- East Tennessee State University collecting blood samples for COVID-19 research
- Landmark paper calls for the need to develop the world’s microbiome biobanking infrastructure
- Biospecimen bone infection registry finds higher MRSA rate in North America
- Coriell Institute for Medical Research added a new collection of stem cells to its biobank
- MDC (UK) creates one of the world’s largest virtual biobanks
Recent Papers
- The responses of biobanks to COVID-19
- Rapid establishment of a COVID-19 perinatal biorepository
- A biobank of colorectal cancer patient-derived xenografts
- Establishment of a pediatric COVID-19 biorepository
- Consequences of the COVID-19 on the use of cancer biobanks
- Characterization of a multicenter pediatric-hydrocephalus shunt biobank
Biobank Job Alerts
- Sample Manager and Biobank Coordinator– Thermo Fisher (California)
- Sample Manager and Biobank Coordinator – Forbius (Montreal, Canada)
- Tissue Acquisition Research Associate II – University of California San Francisco
- Biobank Manager – University of Cyprus
- Research Enrollment Coordinator– Partners HealthCare Biobank (Boston, USA)
- Biobank Enrollment Coordinator– University of Colorado (Denver, USA)
- Head of Operations – Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg
Upcoming Biobanking Conferences
- ISBER 2020 Virtual Symposium – Oct 22-23, 2020
- Europe Biobank Week 2020 – Nov 17-20, 2020
OpenSpecimen News
- Biobanking Conversations (BbC #1): Interview with Irmi Feldman (University of California, Davis)
- New Client: University of Cyprus adopts OpenSpecimen as its Biobanking LIMS
- New Blog: Encryption (at rest) OpenSpecimen MySQL Database
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