2018/19 Annual Report September 2019

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2018/19 Annual ReportSeptember 2019CSUPERB’s mission is to develop a professional biotechnology workforce by mobilizing and supporting collaborative CSU student andfaculty research, innovating educational practices, and partnering with the life sciences industry.The CSUPERB Summer Faculty Consensus Group meeting featured 22 CSU alumni working in thebiotechnology industry. Long Beach, August 2019. Read more at http://bit.ly/CSUPERBalumni2018/2019Program HighlightsCSUPERB defines student success not only in academic terms, but also onlife beyond the university. The 1999 legislative line item that providesongoing support for CSUPERB instructs us to “maintain and enhance [the Since 1999 CSUPERBhas made grants andCSU’s] role in the preparation of the biotechnology workforce.” We knowawards to CSU facultyover 80% of CSUPERB-supported students go on to biotech-relevant jobsand students, totalingor graduate programs after completing CSU degrees.The Summer 2019 CSUPERB Faculty Consensus Group (FCG) meetingserved as our first-ever Alumni Homecoming. Each campus team invitedone graduate to represent their campus at the summer meeting. Allalumni invited were undergraduate or master’s researchers during theirtime on CSU campuses. Today they are graduate students, entry-levelscientists, managers, executives, and professors working in largecorporations, start-up companies, and universities across thebiotechnology industry ecosystem. 14,604,371 The 31st Annual CSUBiotechnologySymposium at the HyattRegency OrangeCounty drew 645participants andfeatured 292 postersfrom 23 CSUuniversities, presentingThe 22 alumni told stories about job searches, career trajectories, anddiscoveries from 180perspectives on their CSU education. Critical thinking and problemCSU faculty-led researchsolving skills are fundamentally important for any biotech job, so paneliststeamsreinforced the need for hands-on design and research experience whilein college. Alumni emphasized the need for “essential skills,”collaboration, interdisciplinary work, and networking. To prepare for lifepost-graduation, these CSUPERB alumni encourage current students topresent at the annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium and get outsidetheir disciplinary comfort zones.Find CSUPERB-supported student outcomes data at: nown-status/ This year CSUPERBmade 109 grants andawards totaling 727,008 to 56 facultyand 53 students at 201CSU campuses

2018 - 2019CSUPERB LeadershipPresidents’ CommissionSoraya M. Coley, ChairCalifornia State PolytechnicUniversity, PomonaDianne F. HarrisonCSU NorthridgeGayle E. HutchinsonCSU ChicoLeroy M. MorishitaCSU East BayRobert S. NelsenCSU SacramentoLeslie E. WongSan Francisco State UniversityStrategic Planning CouncilKatherine McReynolds, ChairCSU SacramentoMath CuajungcoCSU FullertonDaryl EggersSan José State UniversityMatthew EscobarCSU San MarcosPaula Fischhaber, Deputy ChairCSU NorthridgeTomas Gomez-Arias, DeanCSU StanislausMichael GoldmanSan Francisco State UniversityKatherine Kantardjieff, DeanCSU San MarcosJennifer Lillig-WhilesSonoma State UniversityMonica Lounsbery, DeanCSU Long BeachStanley Maloy, AVP Research &InnovationSan Diego State UniversityBori MazzagHumboldt State UniversityJoanna MottCSU SacramentoAparna SreenivasanCSU Monterey BayLynn Stauffer, DeanSonoma State UniversityKoni StoneCSU StanislausCalifornia State UniversityProgram for Education and Research inBiotechnology (CSUPERB)www.calstate.edu/csuperbLetter from the Executive Director“CSUPERB recognizes that biotechnology preparationrequires integration of disciplinary knowledge, hands-onpractice, and collaborative, team-based projects.”- 2018 – 2021 CSUPERB Strategic PlanDear Colleagues and Friends:I often explain that CSUPERB acts as a smoothing function across the CSU,historically serving as a reliable funder, professional community,biotechnology industry partner, institutional memory, and source of STEMeducation expertise in the context of busy lives, campus leadership changes,priority shifts, and uncertain budgets. The long-lived CSUPERB community isa significant, strategic investment in the CSU’s faculty and current students, aswell as the state’s future biotechnology workforce.Over CSUPERB’s 35 year history, biotechnology education and research haschanged. Rather than maintaining a status quo, CSUPERB monitors nationaltrends, learns from campus experience, and provides leadership by tryingnew ideas. Team science, interdisciplinary centers, community-partneredresearch, what works clearinghouses, and entrepreneurial endeavors are alltrends stretching how science and engineering is taught and done thesedays.While over 40% of our AY16-17 New Investigators were successful in winningfollow-on funding, others were unable to garner external grants (yet!). Alumniand industry advisors emphasize that students need interdisciplinary, teambased experiences on our campuses, but some faculty believe that deepdiving, PI-driven, basic research remains the key to the future. Disciplinebased education researchers are defining effective STEM education, backedby random clinical trial data, even as others are revising departmentalcurricula based on recommendations from national reports, such as Vision &Change. These conundrums exist side-by-side within a healthy community ofpractice and we place bets to catalyze as many good ideas as we can.This year NSF funded CSUPERB to offer the first Ideas Lab within the CSU totest whether we could bring together faculty members to explore newscientific directions as part of an interdisciplinary team. Based on nationaldata, we understand that fewer than half the Ideas Lab participants willactually join a team and about half of those teams will go on to win newgrants (see the NI win rate above). I think these are the kinds of experimentsand investments CSUPERB should make. The CSUPERB community needs tokeep up with changes around us and familiarize our faculty andadministrators with a variety of career-making options to compete on thenational level. Through a creative and well-supported faculty, CSU studentswill receive the most effective and cutting-edge biotechnology education wecan devise.Susan M. Baxter (Executive Director)2

31 st Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium SummaryCSUPERB celebrated its 31st Annual CSU BiotechnologySymposium January 3-5, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency OrangeCounty.Cal Poly Pomona President Soraya Coley, CSUPERB’s newPresidents’ Commission Chair, seized the opportunity to talk withbiotechnology industry leaders, Clifford Samuel from GileadSciences and Dina Lozofsky from Biocom LA. The ‘firesidechat’ highlighted the disciplinary, research, organizational, andindividual diversity found across the biotechnology ecosystem. Wethink the points made and the wisdom shared will be timely foryears to come, so we saved the video (http://bit.ly/ColeyFireside)!The symposium brought together 645 students, faculty members,and administrators. In addition to the fireside chat, plenary sessionsfeatured immunotherapies, cancer research, CSU student awardfinalists’ talks, and CSUPERB-funded faculty short talks. Theprogram included three professional development workshops forfaculty: one for new faculty featuring Dr. Anissa Brown from NIH,another on Course-based Undergraduate Research (CUREs), and aCSUPERB proposal writing workshop. Students attended GRFPwriting, career networking, and graduate school informationsessions. The two poster sessions featured 292 posters from 180groups working at all 23 CSU campuses and with 87 externalpartners. The detailed program is available online(http://bit.ly/2019CSUbiotech) and you can visit the symposiumphoto gallery (http://bit.ly/2lVoQG4) to look back on all sessions.Cal Poly Pomona President Coley hosted a ‘fireside chat’ during the 31st Annual CSU BiotechnologySymposium. (Left to right) President Soraya Coley (Cal Poly Pomona and Chair, CSUPERB Presidents’ Commission),Clifford Samuel (Senior Vice President of Access Operations and Emerging Markets, Gilead Sciences) and DinaLozofsky (Executive Director, Biocom LA).We thank Gilead and the National Science Foundation for theirsupport of this year's symposium.Anonymous Student Voicesfrom the Post-SymposiumSurvey“The conversations about industry andresearch were super beneficial for me tofigure out what skills are in demand andwhat the 'ecosystem' is like. Additionally,the networking session provides a greatopportunity to directly ask questions andfind different paths. For the posterpresentation, it was a great experience toget to know students across the CSUsystem and see the different perspectives.“I will remember CSUPERB is trulydedicated to make CSU students succeedby providing them with networking toolsto make professional connections in thescientific field.”“I learned that the biotech industry is soincredibly broad, and that there areactually so many different career paths thatcould stem from any STEM major”“I’ll remember everyone who showedinterest in my poster and researchespecially because it wasn’t chemistry orbiochemistry related.”“The thing that I will remember the mostfrom this symposium was the how manypeople stopped by my poster. Although itis scary and nerve wracking for lots ofpeople to come to my poster, I wasshocked and thankful that more peoplecame than I expected.”“The networking with other professors andspeakers after hours, the talks onimmunotherapy, and the tableconversations both at sessions and meals. Ialso enjoyed the session topics and justthe whole experience.”“The team science workshop was the one Imost enjoyed and learned from. I reallywant to focus in the future on collaborationwith other fields outside of biology &biotechnology as well.”“The thumbs up my PI gave me after sheheard my poster talk.”“What I found interesting were the types ofexperiments that other students wereperforming in their labs. I found itinteresting how many labs are using thesame model organism as me but use it totest many different types of questions that Iwouldn't have thought of.”SAVE THE DATE! The 32nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium will be held January 16-18, 2020, at the Santa Clara Marriott.3

2019 CSU Biotechnology Symposium AwardsANDREOLI FACULTY SERVICE & CSUPERB LEADERSHIPAWARD: Dr. Michael Goldman, Professor of Biology, SanFrancisco State University. Dr. Goldman was honored forhis work with SFSU alumni to organize the annualPersonalized Medicine Conference, his support for theSFSU Professional Science Master’s Program, and “inrecognition of his dedication to and steady leadership ofthe CSUPERB community, ushering in an era of growth forthe organization.” Dr. Goldman served as the CSUPERBFaculty Consensus Group Chair 2010-2018.CSUPERB FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD: Dr. MathCuajungco, Professor of Biology at CSU Fullerton, leadsnot only an NIH-supported neuroscience research group,but also is the coordinator for the campus’ NIHMaximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) studentresearch training program.GLENN NAGEL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHAWARD: Lillian Murphy (CSU Sacramento) investigatesmolecular causes of autism spectrum disorder in the NIHsupported Kimberly Mulligan group.CRELLIN PAULING STUDENT TEACHING AWARDS:Michael Friedman (San José State University) and DreamLe (CSU Long Beach). Mr. Friedman taught NumericalMethods in Biomedical Engineering. Ms. Le taught theIntroductory to Ecology and Physiology lab.DON EDEN GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD:Fred Fregoso (CSU Northridge) studies DNA repair in theNIH-supported Paula Fischhaber group.Counter-clockwise From Top (1): President Soraya Coley (Cal Poly Pomona & Chair, CSUPERB Presidents’ Commission), 2019 Andreoli Award, Dr.Goldman, & Katherine McReynolds (CSU Sacramento & Chair, CSUPERB Strategic Planning Council). (2) Marcelo Tolmasky (CSU Fullerton), MarieJohnson (Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, CSU Fullerton), Sean Walker (Chair, Biological Sciences, CSU Fullerton), Dr. MathCuajungco, Maria Linder (CSU Fullerton) & Howard Xu (CSU Los Angeles & Chair, 2019 Faculty Research Award Selection Committee). (3) Ms. LillianMurphy (CSU Sacramento) at her poster during the 31st Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium January 2019. (4) Dream Le (CSU Long Beach), Dr.Deepali Bhandari (CSU Long Beach & Chair, Pauling Award Selection Committee), and Michael Friedman (San José State University). (5) Jamil Momand(CSU Los Angeles & Chair, 2019 Eden Award Selection Committee), Mr. Fred Fregoso (CSU Northridge) & Lisba Fowler (Eden Family representative).4

CSUPERB PI ProfileKarin Kram (CSU Dominguez Hills, 2017 New Investigator) is a biologist interested in understandinghow bacteria evolve and respond to their environments. She says, “I am especially interested in howbacteria often seem to use regulatory genes to make large changes in their transcriptional programs asone of the first steps of adaptation.”Dr. Kram received an NSF Research inUndergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant and, withcolleagues, a Major Research Instrumentationgrant to purchase an Illumina MiSeq. Dr. Kramexplains that the grants have “ changedeverything about how the lab works! I havemore time to work with students and writepapers. I have been able to hire more studentsand support master’s students as well I havealso been able to bring students to moreconferences. Six students and I attended the2019 American Society of MicrobiologyMicrobe conference. The MRI grant hasallowed [us] to integrate second-generationsequencing into our classes and use it morefrequently in our research. Multiple studentshave been able to use this instrument directly,and [we] have learned to analyze highthroughput sequencing data.” She adds, “Theonly thing I would like to add is how proud I amof my students – they work so incredibly hardand even when things do not work out asplanned they are always willing to put in theextra effort to figure it out. Without them Iwould never have gotten funding and I wouldnot be getting any research done!”Kram Lab 2018-2019. Dr. Kram writes, “We’re in our nerdiest t-shirts!” (Left toright) Front Row: Diane Aguilar, Karin E. Kram (PI), Ann Lobo; Second Row: AutumnHenderson, Sabrina Madrigal, Erik Martinez; Third Row: Mariah Rojas, FranciscoJuarez, Lizett Gonzalez; Top Row: Raul GutierrezWhen asked what advice she has for other newCSU investigators, Dr. Kram explains, “The first piece of advice is to keep trying! I did not get the[CSUPERB] NI grant the first time I applied. But, going through the process of listening to reviewers’concerns and revising based on those helped me secure the grant the second time around. Then I madesure I applied those changes to the NSF proposal, which helped me win the RUI grant the first time Isubmitted. The second piece of advice is to find a mentor (or two) I had a mentor from my postdoctoralinstitution who helped me immensely in framing the grant in a way that would fit the division I was aimingfor and be exciting to reviewers. The third piece of advice is to take advantage of the CSU mission. I thinkNSF is excited to fund non-traditionally research-active campuses. In the grant proposal I was able to talkabout integrating my research into my teaching labs, since I would still have a heavy teaching load evenafter the reassigned time I requested. The reviewers were especially positive about the impacts onstudents and the overall research environment on campus (this was the first RUI on my campus).”5

CSUPERB PI ProfileJohn Valdovinos (CSU Northridge, 2017 New Investigator) is an engineer who is trying to power apediatric blood pump without the need for a power cord that traverses the skin. He says, “My primarymotivation for tackling this type of problem is to improve medical technology specifically designed for thepediatric population (children and teenagers). The medical device field, in a general sense, has focusedon developing technology for a broad population of adults suffering from disease.” The Valdovinos groupis focusing their efforts on improving outcomes for children suffering from cardiovascular disease, nowfunded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.Dr. Valdovinos explains, “I am very grateful to CSUPERB for allowing me to pursue this work, whichultimately gave me some preliminary data that I used for the grant that was awarded. In terms of advice Ican give to engineers, or any researcher for that matter, pursuing an NIH grant, I would say that patienceand perseverance are key after having a compelling idea. This grant that I was awarded was theculmination of previously rejected grants (to American Heart Association, National Science Foundation,National Institutes of Health) that received good but not great scores and reviews. After each rejection, Isat down and addressed all reviewer concerns regarding the merits of the application and theexperimental methodology.” The NIH grant has already changed the dynamic of the group. Dr.Valdovinos explains, “the number of students I have participating in my research as a whole has increasedsubstantially. It has also given me and my students additional motivation to make an impact in the field ofwireless power to medical implants. The funding also attracts great students from programs like BUILDPODER and AIMS2. Lastly, on a professional and personal level, the money also gives me moreconfidence in terms of my ability to procure additional funding for other research projects.”Dr. Valdovinos sums up his experience working with CSU Northridge students: “I have had the privilege ofworking with some great students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The enthusiasm andpassion these students bring are second to none. I have learned that California State University studentsare hungry for opportunities to make a societal impact and to become experts in their field or major.Couple this passion with the diverse backgrounds they bring to the table, and our students are reallyincredible when given the opportunity and the training.” Read more about the Valdovinos ovinos), the BUILD PODER (https://www.csun.edu/buildpoder) and AIMS2 (http://www.ecs.csun.edu/aims2/) programs.Valdovinos GroupSummer 2019.(Left to right) Dr. JohnValdovinos, Luis Landeros,Juan Espericueta, DiegoVasquez, Samuel Garza,Patrick McConnell,Samantha Mendez, FumitoAzama, Isuru Gunaratne,and Fnu Devit.6

UPDATE: CSUPERB Presidents’ Commission Scholars ProgramOmar Apolinar (2017 CSUPERB Presidents’ Commission Scholar) at CSU San Marcos (left) and at his poster (right) during the 31st Annual CSU BiotechnologySymposium, where he was honored as a Glen Nagel Undergraduate Research Award Finalist in January 2019.“We do not think research experiences should be reserved for upper level, academically provenstudents. Students gain confidence by practicing as scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs earlierin their academic careers.” – CSUPERB Strategic Plan (2018-2021)In 2012 the CSUPERB Presidents’ Commission approved a new summer research program for first- andsecond-year students. Since then, CSUPERB has funded eleven Presidents’ Commission Scholars (PCS)students each summer. The PCS program is designed for students with no research experience andoffers them 6000 scholarships to join a research group full-time. The program encourages facultymentors to look beyond the “usual recruits” and provides 2000 to support their research program.Students already involved in other research programs, such as NIH MARC, NSF LSAMP, HHMI, orHonors College programs, are not eligible.This summer we reached out to the 2012-2016 PCS cohorts, expecting that many of them graduatedfrom the CSU and are embarking on their lives beyond the university. Did the PCS program help to setthe 73 students up to succeed academically and embark on a research career? We find that 92% ofthem graduated, 3% transferred to non-CSU universities, 3% are continuing their CSU studies, and welost t

Math Cuajungco CSU Fullerton Daryl Eggers San José State University Matthew Escobar CSU San Marcos Paula Fischhaber, Deputy Chair CSU Northridge Tomas Gomez-Arias, Dean CSU Stanislaus Michael Goldman San Francisco State University Katherine Kantardjieff, Dean CSU San Marcos Jennifer Lillig-Whiles Sonoma State University Monica Lounsbery, Dean

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