Program Pichia 2012

The program will comprise guest lecturers, discussions and poster presentations.

The program focus of Pichia 2012 is: 

•        Frontiers in High-Productivity Processes
•        Interplay of Process Strategy and Strain Design
•        Rationalized Process Development
•        Physiological Response to Recombinant Protein Production
•        Molecular Regulation Mechanisms
•        New Expression Tools and Concepts
•        Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology
•        Cell Biology
•        High-Throughput Technologies
•        Posttranslational Processing
•        Host Strain Engineering         
•        Innovative Downstream Processing
•        Pichia Products and Pipeline – Enzymes, Proteins and Pharmaceutical Applications
  

Key note lecture, confirmed speakers:

•        Jim Cregg, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, USA
•        Guenther Daum, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Further confirmed guest speakers: 

•     David Archer, University of Nottingham, UK
•     Pinar Calik, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
•     Nico Callewaert, Ghent University, Belgium
•     Pau Ferrer, University of Barcelona, Spain
•     Brigitte Gasser, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
•     Ben Glick, University of Chicago, USA
•     Shaikh Rafeek, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland 
•     Peter Schotte, Ablynx, Belgium
•     Helmut Schwab, Graz University of Technology, Austria
•     David Weiner, Verenium Corporation, USA
•     Roland Weis, VTU Technology, Austria
•     Juergern Zanghellini, ACIB GmbH, Austria
•     Xiangshan Zhou, East China University of Science and Technology, P.R. China