Educating and fostering a diverse, vibrant community of emerging biotechnology leaders is a central tenet of ExFAB, as well as assuring all researchers, regardless of institution or background, are able to leverage ExFAB’s unique facilities to propel new understandings of extreme microbes. ExFAB achieves these critical goals by providing access to and training on cutting-edge biotechnology workflows and tools through a comprehensive portfolio of educational programs. ExFAB realizes its educational mission through three primary programs:
The ExFAB Fellows program provides research training and professional development for UCR and UCSB postdocs and graduate students who are in ExFAB-affiliated labs and are conducting in-house research that will develop new technologies for the benefit of the microbiology research community.
The CSU Masters Scholars Program embeds CSU masters students in ExFAB-affiliated labs at UCSB or UCR for a 10-week, in-depth research experience. And finally, the ExFAB Summer School provides in- depth technical training to enable researchers to leverage ExFAB’s unique facilities for their own research, and build their technical expertise in automation.
The ExFAB Summer School Program is a one-week, intensive program at UC Santa Barbara designed to provide in-depth technical training to enable researchers to learn how to use and leverage ExFAB’s unique suite of instrumentation for their own research. It is open to all members of the microbial research community interested in learning automation and how to leverage ExFAB’s unique capabilities for their own research.
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