PRODUCTION OF PHARMACEUTICAL & INDUSTRIAL PROTEINS IN MICROALGAE & PLANTS
| Dates: | 1 May 2015 |
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| Times: | 10:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Current University students, General public |
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Plants and microalgae are attractive low-cost and scalable production platforms for manufacturing pharmaceutical and industrial proteins. These advantages have driven interest in their use as expression systems for industrial biotechnology. The workshop will cover plant and algal expression systems, production systems/bioreactors, downstream processing together with cGMP. An overall aim is to help network the community working on algae, plants and established hosts. The overall objective of this workshop is to identify barriers and potential solutions to facilitate (fast track) the development and use of this emerging field in industrial biotechnology.
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ORGANISERS
Anil Day (University of Manchester)
Jags Pandhal (University of Sheffield)
& Yuhong Zhou (UCL London)
SCHEDULE
10.30-11.00 Registration/Coffee
11.00-12.55 Workshop 1: Expression Systems, Chair: Anil Day (Manchester)
11.00-11.15 Anil Day - introductory remarks
11.15-11.40 Alan Dickson (Manchester) Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells: setting expectations
11.40-12.05 George Lomonossoff (John Innes Centre, Norwich) Making all kinds of everything: the joy of transient expression
12.05-12.30 Pascal Drake (St George’s Hospital, London) Advances in manufacturing antibody-based pharmaceuticals in plants
12.30-12.55 Saul Purton (University College London) Synthesis of therapeutic proteins in the algal chloroplast
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Workshop 2: Bioreactors, Regulation & Industry Perspective, Chair: Jags Pandhal (Sheffield)
14.00-14.15 Jags Pandhal - introductory remarks
14.15-14.40 Farid Khan (Protein Technologies) Novel bioreactors and algal proteins for use as diagnostic tracers and bio-fertilisers
14.40-15.05 Martin Stocks (PBL Technologies) The MolFarma project: a translational facility for the development of plant-made protein
technologies & applications
15.05-15.15 Andrew Spicer (Algenuity) Algal strain optimisation using the Algem labscale photobioreactor
15.15-15.45 Coffee Break with Group Discussions, Project Proposals
15.45-17.30 Workshop 3: Harvesting & Downstream Processing, Chair Yuhong Zhou (University College London)
15.45-16.00 Yuhong Zhou-Introductory remarks
16.00-16.20 Gary Lye(University College London) Engineering tools to speed development of microalgal bioprocesses
16.20-16.40 Short Industry presentations
16.40-17.30 Group Discussions, Project proposals
17.30-18.00 Drinks reception
Travel and Contact Information
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Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
Michael Smith Building
Manchester
