Biotechnology
About Biotechnology
Biotechnology is the scientific manipulation of living organisms, especially at the molecular genetic level. UBC's program combines the world-class science curriculum available at the university with the extensive industry-focused laboratory training available at BCIT. The program equips you with the lab, scientific and technical expertise, and the business and communication skills, to start a biotechnology career as soon as you graduate. Courses are housed in the new state-of-the-art Biosciences Teaching Building, the flagship Life Sciences Centre, and the Michael Smith Laboratories, named after the Nobel laureate and UBC professor Dr. Michael Smith.
Program Details
The five-year program is offered in cooperation with BCIT. You'll complete a 30-credit first-year program at UBC and then move to BCIT for two years, returning to UBC for about two years of academic and co-op work terms. The combination of theoretical and practical studies focused on microbiology and related disciplines is a good fit if you're hoping to work in the growing biotechnology sector of our economy.
Skills
- Collaboration with cross-discipline laboratory teams
- Presentation of technical and scientific data to non-technical audiences
- Quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
- Compliance with quality control and safety regulations
- Analytical method development or validation (QA/QC)
- Use of ELISA, PCR, CRISPR technology in plant and animal cells, gel-electrophoresis, western blot, protein purification, isolation and characterization, bacterial culture, cell passaging, and plant micropropagation
- Use of instruments for bioinformatics, gas chromatography, mass spectroscopy, fermenters, microscopy, liquid chromatography-triple quad mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
Programs offered
- Honours, Biotechnology
Resources
Career Options
With an undergraduate degree
- Agricultural technician/technologist
- Agrology technician
- Aquaculture technician
- Bacteriological technician
- Biofuel analyst
- Biological laboratory technologist
- Bio-production operator
- Biotechnology technician
- Fish hatchery technician
- Fisheries technician
- Food and drug inspector
- Food bacteriological technician
- Laboratory technician
- Marketing specialist
- Microbiology quality control technologist
- Plant breeding technician
- Pollution control inspector
- Product testing associate
- Quality control technician
- Seed technologist
- Technical sales representative
- Technical Writer
- Water treatment technician
- Wildlife biology technician
With additional study
- Agricultural scientist
- Bioinformatician
- Biomedical engineer
- Biostatistician
- Biotechnical engineer
- Clinical research associate
- Consumer protection specialist
- Environmental attorney
- Epidemiologist
- Gene technologist
- Genetic counselor
- Health care administrator
- Occupational hygienist
- Occupational therapist
- Patent agent
- Patent attorney
- Pharmaceutical or medicinal chemist
- Regulatory affairs expert
- Teacher/Professor
- Toxicologist
- Veterinarian
UBC Science Biotechnology Graduates Work As
- MSc Candidate in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto
- Research Technologist, STEMCELL Technologies
- PhD Candidate in Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
- Research Assistant, BC Cancer Agency
- PhD Candidate in Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Michigan
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Honours: First-Year Requirements
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Science honours requirements, sessional average >= 70% and 6 credits ENGL 1** or WRDS_V 1** or SCIE_V 113 or other eligible communication courses (3 of these 6 credits may be completed during summer session following Year 1). AND
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Science honours requirements, sessional average >= 70% and 6 credits ENGL 1** or WRDS_V 1** or SCIE_V 113 or other eligible communication courses (3 of these 6 credits may be completed during summer session following Year 1). AND the following Biology + Chemistry + Mathematics + Physics:
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