BioProNET 1st Annual Scientific Meeting

BioProNET hosted an exciting international scientific meeting at in Cardiff on the 23rd and 24th October 2014, which covered the entire spectrum of bioprocessing.

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Click below to see details of talks and workshops:

Speakers and talks
Neil Brewis (GSK) – Landscape & Opportunities in Bioprocessing
Tom Parsons (University of Oxford) – A tag and modify approach to protein modification
Marcel Ottens (Delft Institute of Technology, Netherlands) – Process Chromatography, Bioseparations and Bioprocessing
Shahid Uddin (MedImmune) – Formulation Challenges of Biologicals
Stuart Haslam (Imperial College, London) – Life is Sweet – Glycomics and Glycoproteomics: Providing New Biological Insights
Neil Weir (UCB) – Small Molecule Pharmaceuticals versus Biologics – Cross Fertilisation
Mike Betenbaugh (Johns Hopkins University) – Systems Biotechnology of Mammalian Cells
Colin Clarke (Dublin City University) – Statistical Methods for Mining CHO Cell Omics Data
Nicole Borth (Austrian Centre of Applied Biotechnology) – Powering Genomics to Rationalize the Production of Biologics
Hitto Kaufman – Innovation in Biologics Manufacturing
David James (University of Sheffield) – Design and Engineering of CHO Cell Factories
Michael Roberts (Synpromics) – Synthetic Promoters for Custom Design Gene Expression
Dafydd Jones (University of Cardiff) – From Backbone to New Chemistry, Insights into Emerging Approaches for Protein Engineering and Design

Workshop on ‘Perspectives Across Expression Platforms’, including
Nigel Slater (Cambridge University) – Expression meets downstream
Phil Wright (University of Sheffield) – Make Mine an E.coli
Colin Robinson (University of Kent) – Microalgae coming through
Tony Hitchcock (Cobra Biologics) – Viruses and vaccines
Dan Bracewell (University College London) – Host of worries
Peter Levison (Pall Life Sciences) – But what about the purification?

Other activities
Networks in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy (BBSRC NIBB)
Posters & Networking reception
Early Career Researchers Workshop / Breakfast