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Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE)
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The Amgen Biotech Experience is an educational biotechnology program that empowers teachers to bring hands-on biotechnology curriculum into their classrooms.
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Samantha Leano
Site Coordinator/Lab Technician at Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator Samantha Leano received her bachelor’s in biotechnology and bioinformatics, with a minor in human rights at the University of California, Davis. For almost 3 years, Samantha has dedicated her life to research in both the pharmaceutical and agricultural industry. She has collaborated on numerous projects with a variety of departments like the UC Davis Plant Sciences and Agricultural department, UC Davis Medical Center in partner with the FDA, and Cedar Sinai Medical Center. Her most notable, and more recent, research is her own study in creating deep-learning simulations in understanding evolutionary selective sweeps in domesticated sunflowers (which is her favorite plant!). Samantha is a current member of the Botanical Society of America, which is an organization that hopes to inspire and promote knowledge and innovation in the botanical sciences for the benefit of students and the environment. Aside from her research, she has al
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