Biotechnology Workshops

Biotechnology is a practical-based interdisciplinary subject that requires lots of techniques and skills to learn that are changing day to day and updated. Workshops for Biotechnology provides better understanding and learning techniques to the students that are currently used in industries.

Biotechnology workshops are typically week-long that offers a combination of theoretical knowledge and hands-on experimental techniques in the appropriate area from experts in the field and faculty. These workshops include mainly lectures, discussions, hands-on laboratory techniques, participation certificates, and other activities.

Biotechnology workshops provide interactive training and hands-on practical knowledge of various Biotechnology techniques that should learn by Biotechnology students, scholars, and professionals.

In India various Biotechnology related government laboratories (CSIR, ICAR, ICMR), private Biotechnology research labs, Biotechnology companies, educational institutes, and other organizations related to Biotechnology organizes various hands-on workshop on Biotechnology related techniques to make more skilled or updated to the Biotechnology students.

Benefits of Biotechnology Workshops

There are lots of benefits of Biotechnology workshops for Biotechnology candidates either they are students, faculty members, or working professionals in the Biotechnology sector.

• Maximum Biotechnology students that pursuing Biotechnology courses in various Colleges and Universities not get practical exposure, industrial hands-on training, and industrial knowledge that are used in the Biotechnology sector.
• Even many Biotechnology working professionals unable to update their skills according to the latest developments in their working fields because of their job they don’t have enough time to learn new Biotechnology techniques or skills.
• The College Biotechnology syllabuses do not include everything and students' exposure to Biotechnology purely depends on the faculty members' knowledge and skills. Then those who attend Biotechnology workshops get more knowledge and skills than others and this enhances their chances to get placed in Biotechnology companies.
• Not only Biotechnology students are exposed to industrial processes, teachers and faculty members also get exposed to the latest industrial processes. This increases the Biotechnology teaching confidence of the faculty and teachers.
• Biotechnology workshops also provide a platform where the same field working professionals, students, teachers, scholars, and entrepreneurs meet with each other and learn the latest techniques or skill of their field.
• Participants who attend these workshops get benefit by broadening their horizons, getting exposure to new ways of addressing questions,  exploiting the new technologies and approaches towards making vital advances in biology, biotechnology, Bioinformatics, and biomedicine fields.

Duration of Biotechnology Workshops

Generally, Biotechnology workshops organized from one day to several weeks like four or six weeks. But majorly are organized for 5-6 days’ time periods.

The duration of the workshop purely depends on the type of workshop and hands-on techniques that a candidate can learn during the workshop period. One-day to two-day workshops include only one or two Biotechnology techniques and topics covered in the workshop.

Examples of Biotechnology Workshops

• One-day workshop on Milk Adulteration and its control.
• Two-day workshop on Animal cell culture and Molecular Biology.
• One week hands-on workshop on Cancer Cell Culture Techniques & MTT Assay.
• Two days’ workshop on Molecular Disease Diagnosis and Bioinformatics.
• Five-day online workshop on Gel-Based Proteomics
• BIRAC Workshop on Bio-Entrepreneurship, Grant Writing, and IPR Management.

Types of Biotechnology Workshops

There are a variety of types of Biotechnology workshops that mainly depends on what type of activity they organizes.

1. Hands-On Biotechnology Training

Hands-On Biotechnology training is the basic main type of workshop where candidates get the training and learn skills after reaching the site and participating in the various seminars and lectures.

2. On-Site Biotechnology Workshops

Onsite workshops organized by the other specialist Biotechnology professionals to provide the training of new skills or technologies at the working or studying place.

3. Off-Site Biotechnology Workshops

Off-Site Biotechnology workshops are those where candidates have to go to learn the Biotechnology skills at the training or organizing institute.

4. Online Biotechnology Workshops

After COVID-19, online workshops now popular, where students learn the techniques and skills without going to the site and ask questions and discuss with the experts regarding the techniques.

An online workshop for Biotechnology students are very helpful than offline workshops. It cuts the traveling and staying cost for attending the workshops.

5. Biotechnology Webinar

After COVID-19, online seminars become more popular than offline seminars that are called webinars popularly. Biotechnology webinars provide the benefits of getting knowledge and interacting with the international skilled persons and discussion.

Biotechnology Workshops or Hands-On Offering Organizations

Every year many governments institutes, research laboratories, private organizations, universities, private institutes, Biotechnology companies, and other organizations that deal with Biotechnology sectors organize various types of Biotechnology workshops that are related to their working field.

Lots of government and private institutes organize Biotechnology workshops in India, here we listed some organizations name that organizes workshop for Biotechnology students.

• Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)
• Regional Centre for Biotechnology
• Federation of Asian Biotech Associations
• Bio-IT Centre at IBAB
• RASA Life Science Informatics

Are Biotechnology Workshops Worthwhile for Biotechnology Candidates?

Definitely Yes, for Biotechnology fresher, students, faculty members, and even for working professionals Biotechnology workshops are very helpful for enhancing their knowledge and skills to get updated in the Biotechnology field.

Just one day to few days workshops provide good knowledge in the topics of Biotechnology that are currently in-demand and working manpower required in that field.