Baculovirus vectors are widely used as tools for expressing proteins, delivering genes into cells, and creating vaccines. Once viewed as an alternative, the baculovirus system has achieved recognition through extensive clinical testing and regulatory exposure. The speed of reaching protein expression and the inability to transmit mammalian disease makes baculovirus an attractive platform.
The Baculovirus Technology meeting brings together experts who are innovating applications and achieving clinical success. Along with seminal insights into biological properties, case studies from industry leaders will address breakthrough approaches to increasing protein expression levels and humanizing the N-glycosylation pathway. Come explore the intricacies and successes of Baculovirus Technology.
Preliminary Agenda
Opening Keynote Presentation: Strategies for Baculovirus Replicative Success: Viral Induction and Inhibition of Apoptosis
Paul Friesen, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry & Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Baculovirus Expression Platform: Recent Advances and More Lessons Learned
James Groarke, Ph.D., Fellow, DT Protein Stucture, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.
Insights into Baculovirus Entry and a New Highly Productive Insect Cell Line
Gary Blissard, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and Department of Entomology,
Cornell University
Using a Novel Glyco-Engineered Insect Cell Line to Examine the Role of Glycan Structure in Influenza Virus Subunit Vaccine Efficacy
Donald Jarvis, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
Utilizing the BEVS to Explore the Natural Immunity of Mosquitoes to Malaria
Richard Baxter, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Laboratory of Professor Johann Deisenhofer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Talk Title to be Announced
Indresh Srivastava, Ph.D., Associate Director, Vaccines Research, Protein Biochemistry, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Inc.
The MultiBac System: New Baculovirus Expression Tools for Multiprotein Complex Production
Imre Berger, Ph.D., Group Leader, Structural Biology Unit, EMBL Grenoble
Efficient Protein Expression in Bombyx mori Larvae of the Strains Highly Sensitive to B. mori Nucleopolyhedrovirus
Takahiro Kusakabe, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Applied Genetics and Pest Management, Kyushu University Graduate School
High-Throughput Methodology for the Rapid Screening of Gene Targets in a Baculovirus Platform
Jared Cartwright, Ph.D., Head, Protein Production Laboratory, Biology, University of York