FIRST BPTI STUDENTS VISIT NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NAIST) IN JAPAN Among the BPTI NIH Training Grant students who visited NAIST in Nara, Japan, in 1997, were
Nick Abu-Absi, Susan Fuget Abu-Absi, Jerry Johnson, and Ben Hause.
Students and faculty from NAIST also visited BPTI in the first of many exchanges over the years.
The formal exchange program between these two institutions has both enhanced communications
between researchers and provided
an opportunity for
cultural as well as
technological
learning
experiences.
SWISS EXCHANGE
In 2001, BTI welcomed the first students from Hochschule, Wadenswill, Switzerland: David Strupler, Otmar Baenziger,
Michael Schoeb and Patrik Ottinger. Students from Wadenswill typically spend
4 to 6 months working with BTI graduate students in a BTI faculty laboratory. Upon return to
Wadenswill the students each write a diploma thesis based on their learning experience in BTI.
The BTI laboratory benefits from focused efforts of students who come well trained in
techniques of applied biotechnology.
1997-99
Prof. Dan W. Urry hired as joint appointment: BPTI and
Chemical Engineering and Material Science.
BPTI students visit NAIST/Japan.
Prof. Michael J. Sadowsky joins as joint
appointment: BPTI and Soil, Water and Climate.
Students and faculty from NAIST visit BPTI.
Assistant Prof. Antony Dean hired as joint appointment: BPTI and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.
SWISS EXCHANGE