Pre-Conference Workshop
Media Optimization

Achieving Super Soup

Monday, September 15, 2008  •  Boston Radisson Hotel  •  9:00am to Noon

8:00am Workshop Registration and Morning Coffee

9:00 Chair Welcoming Remarks

9:05 Using Phenotype MicroArraysTM for Culture Medium Optimization
Ben Bowen, D.Phil., Vice President of Business Development, Biolog, Inc.

9:50 Fluorocarbons to Enhance Oxygen Supply to Encapsulated Cells
Susan C. Roberts, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, and Head, Institute for Cellular Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

10:30           Networking Coffee Break

11:00           Speaker to Be Announced

11:30           Cooperative Development to Achieve Media Optimization and Increase of Product Yield
Anna Pisania, Ph.D., Senior Cell Culture Engineer, Cell Culture & Process Development, Acceleron Pharma

12:00pm Close of Workshop

Michael L. Shuler, Ph.D., Samuel B. Eckert Professor, and J & M McCormick Chair, Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University

Fouad Atouf, Ph.D., Scientist, Biologics & Biotechnology, United States Pharmacopeia

Henriette Skribek, Ph.D., Researcher, Microbiology and Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institute

Alison Rush, Senior Research Associate, Department of Automated Biotechnology, Merck & Co.

Anna Pisania, Ph.D., Fellow, Cell Culture & Process Development, Acceleron Pharma

• Cell Line Development

• Cell Engineering

• Upstream Processing

• Scale-up & Manufacturing Platforms

Co-located Event:

Baculovirus Technology

September 17-18, 2008  |  Boston, Massachusetts
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