Pathoscan Remote Customer Aqusition

PathoScan Technologies Inc. aims to increase the sales of its Pathobox units and assay kits. The project involves developing a comprehensive marketing strategy that targets potential customers in the agricultural and veterinary medicine sectors. In this project, you will learn about what the Pathobox is, how it can help potential customers, and then sell the Pathobox to the customer. Learners will be compensated on a generous per sale basis. Learners are welcome to work as a team or individually. - Analyze current market trends and customer needs. - Identify key customer segments for Pathobox units and assay kits. - Develop innovative marketing tactics to enhance product visibility. - Deliver on the proposed marketing plan. This is a great opportunity for any business student in finance, sales, or marketing.

Building a Better Pathobox

The main goal for the project is to enhance the capabilities of the PathoBox machine by adding the ability to detect SYBR Dye. This will enable the machine to identify specific crop diseases with higher accuracy and efficiency, aligning with PathoScan Technologies Inc.'s mission to revolutionize agricultural practices. This will involve several different steps for the learners, including: - Researching the properties and behavior of SYBR Dye in detecting crop diseases. - Developing and integrating the necessary hardware and software components for SYBR Dye detection into the PathoBox machine. - Testing the integrated system to ensure accurate and reliable detection of crop diseases using SYBR Dye. - Documenting the integration process and providing guidelines for future maintenance and upgrades.

qPCR Laboratory Project

The goal of this project will be for the student to develop a quantitative qPCR assay for plant pathogens. This will involve taking our existing diagnostic kits and using them on spiked plasmid/amplicon samples to develop a standard curve. Field plants will then be compared to this, and an LOD/LOQ will be developed. This will be used along with a positive control to yield information about the level of infection in field crops. Depending on the student's skillset, they may contribute to the project in other ways, such as by developing a PCB board for the machine using PCB Way or doing competitive analysis.

Cell Culturing and Sequencing

The objective of this project is for the learner to isolate a fungal or bacterial pathogen from an infected plant sample (BSL-1). This sample has been provided by one of our curious clients. The learner will then use universal target sequencing (ITS, 16S, CPN60, etc.) on a nanopore to identify the causative pathogen.