Industry Day 2024
May 16, 2024
UC Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA
Proudly hosted by the UCSC Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells (IBSC)
Industry Day Participants include
A Special Thanks To Our Sponsor
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as well as the HHMI Gilliam Program with additional support from UCSC
A Unique Approach for Industry and Academia to Interact and Connect
Join the UCSC Research Community at the inaugural Industry Day on May 16th, 2024 at UC Santa Cruz. This unique event is tailored to support the career development of students and postdocs across UCSC’s bioscience graduate programs. Unlike traditional events, Industry Day is designed to foster meaningful, long-term connections between academia and industry, steering away from one-off interactions.
Why you should participate
Faculty, Postdocs, Graduate Students, and undergrads
Meet and network with multiple companies, and learn more about the various non-academic career paths available to you.
Engage with Panelists discussing career insights and their journey from academia to industry and “beyond the bench”
Identify skill gaps by bringing your CV for a “speed review” by participating companies to identify training needs in support of your next career stage.
Participate in Fireside Chats with UCSC alumni who commercialized work and transitioned from academia to industry.
Build relationships for long-term research needs and identify novel tools to drive your research forward.
Exhibiting companies and organizations
Network and recruit UCSC graduate students and postdocs while gaining exposure to UCSC’s talent pool for recruitment opportunities.
Identify and discuss collaborations with current UCSC Faculty and Core Directors to develop mutually beneficial relationships.
Engage with multiple departments and obtain highly qualified contact information designed to drive scientific communication and long-term relationships.
Foster and develop long-term relationships that move away from one-off and promotional interactions and focus on long-term scientific aims and research goals.
Gain exposure by serving as a Panelist or Firesidechat host and engage in novel ways with the greater UCSC research community.
Important Dates and Deadlines
Company Registrations **NOW CLOSED**
Open, March 1, 2024
Close, April 16, 2024
Poster Session Abstract Submissions **NOW CLOSED**
Open, March 20, 2024
Close, May 1, 2024
Industry Day
Thursday, May 16, 2024
What is Industry Day at UCSC?
Defined Mutually Beneficial Purpose
Industry Day is tailored to support the career development of students and Postdocs across UCSC’s bioscience graduate programs, focusing on biotech and biomedical industry interests while facilitating research advancement and collaborations between labs and industry partners
A Novel Approach For Engagement
Unlike traditional events connecting Academia and Industry, UCSC’s Industry Day is designed to foster meaningful, long-term connections between academia and industry; steering away from one-off interactions and promotions. Through scientific understanding of active research at UCSC, academics and companies can engage in unique, mutually beneficial ways.
Benefits of Attending For All
Participating organizations get to engage with Graduate Students and Postdocs, while exploring collaborative research opportunities with UCSC Faculty, Postdocs, and Graduate Students. Organizations gain exposure to UCSC’s talent pool for recruitment opportunities while attendees gain insights on their CV/Resume for future career development. Participating organizations have the opportunity to share insights into the transition to industry and provide career development insight through brief Panel Sessions, followed by Q&A for attendees to join and discover potential careers; advice; and resources to help them reach their goals.
Post-event Engagement With Integrity
All participating organizations will receive detailed qualified contact information for all UCSC attendees. This information includes research focus and aim(s); desired topics of engagement; alternative contact methods; and more; eliminating the guesswork of identifying qualified academic contacts for long-term, organic relationship development. Through clear lines of engagement Industry Day aims to develop communication bridges for years to come.
Join Us For a Paradigm Shift in Academic Events
Occurring outside of the Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences Buildings with Panel Sessions and Fireside Chats occurring in the Physical Sciences Building (PSB240), Industry Day ensures interaction, relationship development, and collaboration with Faculty, Postdocs, and Students from more than six different departments (Biomolecular Engineering; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology; Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Genomics Institute, and more).
Help disrupt the age-old ‘swag’ and discount driven vendor shows of the pre-pandemic era and join us in fostering novel, mutually beneficial relationships between academia and industry!
#UCSCIndustryDay2024 | #NotYourTypicalVendorShow | #AcademiaIndustryAlliance
Agenda At a Glance
| Physical Sciences Building Room 240 | Biomedical/Physical Science Building Grounds | |
| 8:45AM – 9:45 AM | Registration | Poster and Exhibitor Table Setup |
| 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Table Sessions |
| 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Industry Panel #1 | |
| 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Industry Panel #2 | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Refreshment Break | Poster Sessions |
| 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Female Founders Fireside Chat Entrepreneurship and Commercialization of Discovery | Table Sessions |
| 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | Industry Panel #3 | |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Closing Remarks and Raffle | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Networking and Refreshments | |
| 4:00 PM | Event Close | Poster and Exhibitor Move Out |
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Panel Session Schedule
| Panel Moderator | Panel Session | Time | Company | Panelist Name | Panelist Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T32 Postdoctoral Trainee Tommy Finn, Ph.D. |
1 | 10:15am – 11:00am | Axion Biosystems | David Greenberg | Account Manager |
| BioMarin Pharmaceutical | Jan Lui | Associate Director; Externalization Lead, Neuroscience Research Externalization Lead | |||
| Factorial Biotechnologies | Santiago Sanchez | Associate Scientist | |||
| Genentech | Aaron Wecksler | Technical Development Senior Principal Scientist | |||
| STEMCELL Technologies | Tynetta Fletcher-Beals | Account Manager | |||
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | Surajit Banerjee | Senior Business Development Specialist | |||
| T32 Postdoctoral Trainee Saran Chattopadhyaya, Ph.D. |
2 | 11:15am – 12:00pm | 10x Genomics | Ian Fiddes | Senior Manager, Computational Biology |
| Dovetail Genomics, a part of Cantata Bio | Corey Dawkins | Account Manager | |||
| Merck Research Laboratories | Yulia Zybina | Scientist, Molecular Profiling | |||
| Illumina Inc | Eyal Ben David | Bioinformatics Manager | |||
| Oxford Nanopore Technologies | Jonathon Foos | Account Manager | |||
| TrueBinding | Narayan Sastri Palla | Principal Scientist | |||
| T32 Postdoctoral Trainee Julien Menendez, Ph.D. |
3 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm | AbbVie | Christopher Rath | Principal Research Scientists II, Process Analytics Lead |
| Active Motif | Nivanka Paranavitana | Account Manager | |||
| Genentech | Giovanni Diaz | Drug Development Training Fellow | |||
| Natera | Richard Green | Senior Bioinformatics Scientist | |||
| Merck Research Laboratories | Oscar Ekpenyong | Principal Scientist, Pharmacokinetics | |||
| Roche | Rodrigo Teixeira | Senior Manager – Statistical Modeling |
Still have questions?
Support the mission of Industry Day and help foster novel relationships and collaborations between Academia and Industry. Gain exposure and visibility across the entire UC Santa Cruz research community while networking with future new hires for your organization. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact us using the button above.
Want to engage with UC Santa Cruz further?
Become an Accelerate to Industry (A2i) Partner!
Accelerate to Industry is a bold, new approach to workforce training for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and recent graduate student alumni. With A2i, graduate students and postdocs can prepare for and explore employment opportunities with industry companies here on the UCSC campus and across the U.S. UCSC became an academic partner in A2i under NCSU Graduate School in 2022. A2i is one of many professional development opportunities offered to graduate students and postdocs by the UCSC Graduate Division with other campus partners.
