Biotechnology at UC Berkeley

Are you interested in medicine, science and technology? Is your goal to create a life saving drug? This is a unique opportunity for high school students to gain real exposure and hands-on experience working in a state-of-the-art science lab utilizing advanced equipment. The goal of this program is to provide students intensive laboratory experience relevant to the biotechnology field, and to understand fundamental chemical processes common in prokaryotic and eukaryotic biology, and classical and molecular genetics with an emphasis on gene expression and genetic engineering. 

Your lab time will take place at a brand new science center equipped with the latest technology and equipment, so you’ll be among the first to have hands-on experience working with these cutting-edge instruments in a laboratory environment. In addition, you’ll be instructed by PhD candidates from the University of California Berkeley, meaning that you’ll have the guidance and support of some of the brightest minds in the field at your disposal.

Your instructors from UC Berkeley include Dhruv Patel, a PhD candidate in Plant Biology who specializes in communicating the complex biology of genome engineering to diverse audiences, and Luis Valentin, a PhD candidate in Microbiology whose research interests include Genome Editing Tools and CRISPR Biology.