On Tuesday, 18 June 2024 the Novo Nordisk Foundation will host a symposium with the aim of bringing together the research community for an exciting half day of knowledge sharing and networking, with the ambition to facilitate research partnerships and lay the seeds for realizing creative solutions and new technologies within the 2025 Challenge theme:
Heterogeneity in biomanufacturing.
At the workshop there will be exciting invited and contributed talks and participants can enjoy nice food and networking.
Programme
12:30 Registration
13:00 Welcome and introduction by Torben V. Borchert, Scientific Director, Novo Nordisk Foundation
13:15 Strain and process development at Novonesis by Carsten Hjort, Senior Director, Novonesis
13:45 Leveraging synthetic biology to control cell heterogeneity at scale by Peter Rugbjerg, CSO, Enduro Genetics
14:15 Coffee break
14:30 Challenges and successes in the scale up of biomanufacturing processes by Muriel Dewilde, Business Development Manager, BBEPP
15:00 Heterogeneity challenges in an industrial gas fermentation by Lisa Mears, R&D Senior Manager, Unibio.
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Microbial heterogeneity induced by large-scale conditions: cellular particularities and tools for prevention by Ralf Takors, Professor, University of Stuttgart
16:15 Closing remarks by Claus Felby, SVP, Novo Nordisk Foundation
16:20 – 18:00 Reception and networking
Workshop venue:
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Tuborg Havnevej 19
2900 Hellerup
The challenge is to understand the impact of heterogeneity in biomanufacturing and develop novel approaches for detection, control, and mitigation throughout both upstream and downstream processing. Research must aim to enhance process performance with an emphasis on increasing yield, titer, purity, and productivity, and enable economically viable scaling of disruptive solutions that minimize environmental footprints, save energy, and conserve natural resources. The programme is aimed at fundamental and applied research that merges synthetic biology, microbiology, process engineering, and analytical or digital methodologies to gain insight and develop tools or methods with potential for broad applicability. Research must aim to integrate techno-economic analysis and environmental sustainability impact assessment when relevant.
