Training Objectives

Data Fluency

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Modern research tools and instruments generate enormous amounts of data, particularly in biology. This CREATE offers programs that will allow trainees to deepen their understanding of microbial processes.

Interdisciplinary training through co-supervision and team-based MASc projects
Updated and new courses in:
  • Bioprocess Engineering
  • Computation for Bioengineers
  • Multivariate Data Processing
  • Analytical Instrumentation
  • Data Mining
  • Technoeconomic Analysis
  • Life Cycle Analysis
Annual workshops on data management and stewardship
  • FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Principles
  • Sharing large scientific datasets
Shared electronic notebooks

Innovation in Entrepreneurship

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This CREATE offers hands-on training to educate HQP in four proven, interrelated approaches that accelerate knowledge creation, mobilization and commercialization of industrial biotechnology.

BioZone incubator space and startup grants
Research exchange grants
Publications in pre-print open access archives and submission of data to public databases
Community in residence

Communication & Leadership

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This CREATE helps trainees build the communication and leadership skills required to successfully launch and sustain new ventures and to clearly communicate a technology’s value proposition to various stakeholders, from investors to the general public.

Data visualization and science communication workshops
iLEAD courses in authentic leadership
Training camp on equity, diversity and exclusivity (EDI)

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