The Deschutes Land Trust announced that Rika Ayotte will become its next executive director on July 6, 2021. Rika brings demonstrated experience in leadership, collaboration, and nonprofit management to lead the Land Trust in conserving and caring for the lands and waters that sustain Central Oregon for generations to come. Since 2015, Rika Ayotte has served as the executive director for Discover Your Forest, a Central Oregon non-profit partner to the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests. She holds an MBA in nonprofit management and is also the founder and CEO of Forest Path Consulting, a nonprofit organizational development firm. Rika has more than 15 years of experience working in nonprofit organizations. She was a leader in the foundation of both the Deschutes Trails Coalition and Ochoco Trails Strategy groups helping to convene dozens of partners and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for sustainable trails in Central Oregon. She has led multiple strategic planning processes
Bracey s international approach to culture extends to his views on parenting. When his daughter was an infant, he and his former partner used the RIE parenting method that advocates for children to be supported and cared for while parents allow them to explore their world and take the lead whenever possible. If I understand it correctly, [RIE] had to do with folks from the West, observing how bonds were formed between parents and children in other societies, Bracey explains. At times, following these practices meant sacrificing opportunities for professional or personal time to prioritize the child. Bracey contrasts this with West African culture s more balanced approach, which he preferred. In this approach, adults don t necessarily sacrifice their needs for those of the child at all times. Our emphasis on our ancestors, those practices and how they extend to our children, it began to create a different sense of the purpose of the relationship between parent and child. In the Af
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GenapSys, a Redwood City, CA-based company developing a scalable electronic sequencing platform, raised $70m in Series D equity financing.
Backers included Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C., Soleus Capital, an affiliate of PBM Capital, and additional new investors. In conjunction with the funding, Bob Zollars and a representative of Farallon Capital have been appointed to GenapSys’ Board of Directors.
The company intends to use the funds to continue advancing its semiconductor based next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform.
Led by Jason Myers, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, and Founder and Chairman Dr. Hesaam Esfandyarpour, GenapSys is a company focused on the advancement of universal access to genomic information by delivering a genomic sequencing ecosystem that empowers both academic and clinical research applications. Its system leverages a proprietary electrical microfluidic sequencing chip with a scalable number of detectors, allowing for a wide range of application
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Capital will enable continued advancement of GenapSys electronic-based, next-generation sequencing platform
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ GenapSys, Inc. (GenapSys), a company developing a highly accurate and scalable electronic sequencing platform, today announced it has raised $70 million in a Series D equity financing. Investors in the round included Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C., Soleus Capital, an affiliate of PBM Capital, and additional new investors. Proceeds from this financing will be used to continue advancing GenapSys semiconductor based next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform. We are delighted to partner with this world-class group of investors who together share our broad strategic vision of delivering an affordable, scalable genomic sequencing ecosystem that empowers both academic and clinical research, said Jason Myers, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of GenapSys. We look forward to leveraging our Board s strategic insight to acce