Discovery Senior Living Team Member Appointed to Argentum’s 2023 LEAD Program Cohort

Discovery Senior Living Team Member Appointed to Argentum’s 2023 LEAD Program Cohort

Kimberly Hoffman will join the industry association’s prestigious Leadership Advancement & Development (LEAD) Program, which assembles, educates and empowers emergent and aspiring leaders from all segments and sub-sectors of the overall seniors housing industry.

Discovery Senior Living Team Member Appointed to Argentum’s 2023 LEAD Program Cohort
Kimberly Hoffman

Discovery Senior Living has announced Kimberly Hoffman has been selected to be part of the 2023 Argentum Leadership Advancement & Development (LEAD) Program cohort.

Discovery Senior Living (“Discovery”) has announced that Kimberly Hoffman will be part of the Argentum Leadership Advancement & Development (LEAD) Program cohort after their nominations were chosen by the Program’s Steering Committee. 

Hoffman was nominated by top-ranking Discovery executives to take part in the selective, six-month educational and networking cooperative, which is presented by seniors housing industry association Argentum. The LEAD program is designed to provide emerging leaders a unique skill-building and development curriculum with firsthand executive insights, leadership coaching clinics, informative salon sessions, a team-based industry-advancing Capstone project, and the opportunity to forge beneficial relationships with other emerging leaders in the seniors housing space. 

In being accepted into this year’s Argentum LEAD Program, Hoffman will follow in the path of three other Discovery leaders who have participated in the cohort since it launched in 2020. The 2023 cohort will first assemble in person and kick off program-sponsored activities at the Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference, May 8-10 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

“I am truly honored to have been selected for the 2023 Argentum LEAD Program,” said Hoffman. “As someone who is an advocate for continuous professional development, I am looking forward to the robust learning experience, particularly the education and conversations related to emotional intelligence (EI). As the industry continues to face staffing challenges, equipping community leaders with relevant tools and resources is imperative.     

With headquarters in Southwest Florida, Discovery Senior Living currently owns and operates a national, multi-branded portfolio of more than 110 communities in 19 states. 

About Discovery Senior Living

Discovery Senior Living is a family of companies that includes Discovery Management Group, Morada Senior Living, TerraBella Senior Living, Discovery Development Group, Discovery Design Concepts, Discovery Marketing Group, and Discovery At Home, a Medicare-certified home healthcare company. With almost three decades of experience, the award-winning management group has been developing, building, marketing, and operating upscale senior-living communities across the United States. By leveraging its innovative “Experiential Living” philosophy across a growing portfolio of more than 13,000 existing homes or homes under development, Discovery Senior Living is a recognized industry leader for lifestyle customization and, today, ranks among the 10 largest U.S. senior living operators and providers.

Contact Information:

Heidi LaVanway

Vice President of Marketing

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239.301.5330

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Form Bio Joins PacBio Compatible Program to Accelerate Gene Therapy Research From Data to Insights

Form Bio Joins PacBio Compatible Program to Accelerate Gene Therapy Research From Data to InsightsCombination of PacBio’s HiFi Sequencing Capabilities and Form Bio’s Computational Platform and Solutions Helps Biopharma and Academic Researchers Innovate and Accelerates Gene Therapy Product Development

Form Bio, the provider of advanced computational life sciences technology, today announced it has joined the PacBio Compatible program. As part of the program, the Form Bio platform has been verified as compatible with PacBio’s HiFi sequencing solutions, empowering corporate and academic research teams with a dramatically streamlined path from HiFi read data to breakthrough insights.

In particular, AAV-based gene therapy can address the underlying genetic problems that cause disease and holds great promise to help improve human health. With the combination of Form Bio’s data analysis capabilities and PacBio’s sequencing solutions, scientists can enhance their understanding of the genetic components underlying disease and ultimately improve AAV gene therapies in their application to a vast spectrum of diseases.

PacBio is a developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions, providing the advantage of being able to sequence entire, intact constructs with high accuracy. The ability to produce full length reads is important for AAV gene therapy discovery and for confirming the quality of these constructs.

By combining PacBio’s HiFi sequencing capabilities with Form Bio’s innovative computational platform and solutions, mutual customers can not only accelerate but also advance and enhance the quality of research that relies on full read data. In addition, the Form Bio platform includes access to an optimized AAV PacBio QC workflow for characterizing the quality of AAV vector manufacturing.

“We’re thrilled to team up with PacBio to help advance gene therapy discovery and development,” said Kent Wakeford, co-CEO for Form Bio. “This partnership brings together our technology and expertise to provide an ‘easy button’ for PacBio customers, who are looking to get the most out of their HiFi sequencing data but face practical constraints with bioinformatics or computational resources.”

“We share Form Bio’s vision to help scientists and gene therapy developers move the industry forward, making this partnership a natural fit,” said Jeff Eidel, chief commercial officer for PacBio. “Form Bio’s powerful platform, advanced AI-based solutions and uniquely strong combination of both life science and data science expertise all add tremendous value to how researchers utilize PacBio products and solutions.”

To learn more about how Form Bio and PacBio solutions work together, visit https://formbio.com/pacbio

About Form Bio

Form Bio is a cutting-edge research and discovery platform for individuals and enterprises in life sciences. With an accessible, comprehensive and collaborative platform, Form Bio empowers scientists to efficiently and effectively harness the proliferation of data and computing power that has transformed the science of discovery. Form offers end-to-end integration of the discovery process with intuitive and easy-to-use software applications, combined with an open and adaptable collaborative environment. For more information on Form Bio, visit www.formbio.com

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Maggie Whitney

Senior Public Relations Executive

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Alison Guzzio

Public Relations Director

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Ocean Alliance Announces First-Ever Successful Drone-Based Tagging of Endangered Blue and Fin Whales

Ocean Alliance Announces First-Ever Successful Drone-Based Tagging of Endangered Blue and Fin Whales

SnotBot Goes Tagging

Ocean Alliance Announces First-Ever Successful Drone-Based Tagging of Endangered Blue and Fin Whales
Blue Whale

Aerial view of drone tagging a blue whale. Credit: Christian Miller\/Ocean Alliance

For the first time ever, Ocean Alliance and their collaborators have successfully deployed suction cup data-tags on blue and fin whales in the Gulf of California using a drone (UAV). This new deployment method is detailed in an April 2023 publication in the journal Royal Society Open Science and could have significant positive implications for whale science and conservation. Deployment of Biologging Tags on Free Swimming Large Whales Using Uncrewed Aerial Systems. R. Soc. open sci. April 19, 2023 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.221376

This work shows that UAVs are capable of attaching biologging tags to free-swimming large whales. This method may hold advantages for studying vulnerable or hard-to-study species by potentially reducing stress from tagging activities. The work was carried out in collaboration with researchers from Ocean Alliance, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, University of Michigan, and Syracuse University.

“The ability to use the aerial platform for tag deployment provides a huge step forward for the science. This method allows for tags to be attached to whales that might otherwise be difficult to approach with a boat and minimizes any disruption to their normal behaviors. This gives us an opportunity to better understand their behavior to aid in conservation efforts.” Dr. Susan Parks, whale acoustics expert and Biology Professor from Syracuse University

Biologging data tags are critical tools for marine mammal research. The tags are equipped with specialized sensors for recording depth, orientation, acceleration, temperature, acoustics, and even video.

In addition to reduced behavioral impact, “efficient tag deployment enables targeting of specific animals in a group or multi-animal tagging. This ability to target an individual animal and/or doubling or tripling sample size for an experiment will greatly enhance the science and our understanding of these animals.” Dr. Alex Shorter, Mechanical Engineering Professor University of Michigan.

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Research Ecologist Dr. David Wiley, who has used suction-cup tags to study the behavior of whales for almost 30 years, said, “A lot of time and funds have gone into improving tag design and capability, but this is the first real improvement in tag delivery!” Wiley also stated, although the use of UAVs for tag attachment is a major advancement, it, “Takes more than just the desire and a drone to make it happen. The synergy of combining our expertise and experience greatly contributed to our success.” 

Learn more at instagram.com/SnotBot or www.whale.org.

About Ocean Alliance
Dr. Iain Kerr leads Ocean Alliance’s Drones for Whale Research Program. Ocean Alliance is a 501(c)3 non-profit whose mission is to protect whales and their ocean environment through research, scientific collaboration, public education, and the arts. 

Contact Information:

Dr. Iain Kerr

CEO, Ocean Alliance

[email protected]

978-281-2814 ext 600

Chris Zadra

Drone Program Manager/Drone Pilot

[email protected]

978-281-2814 ext 300

Alicia Pensarosa

Assistant Director, Ocean Alliance

[email protected]

978-281-2814 ext 100



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Blue Whale

Aerial view of drone tagging a blue whale. Credit: Christian Miller\/Ocean Alliance


SnotBot Tagging Blue Whale

SnotBot Tagging Blue Whale

Ocean Alliance’s SnotBot Drone deploying a bio-logging tag on a blue whale in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Credit: Christian Miller\/Ocean Alliance

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ASTA-USA Translation Services, Inc. Advises U.S. Businesses That Spanish is Not a Foreign Language and How They Can Tap Into the Spanish-Speaking Market

ASTA-USA Translation Services, Inc. Advises U.S. Businesses That Spanish is Not a Foreign Language and How They Can Tap Into the Spanish-Speaking Market

DALLAS, April 19, 2023 (Newswire.com)

ASTA-USA Translation Services, Inc., provider of expert translation services in 70 languages, found in a recent …

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