Diethard Mattanovich

Head of the Research Field Cell Design and Cell Engineering

address Muthgasse 18 1190 Wien Austria

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time Session: Genomic Studies

Diethard Mattanovich is Full Professor at the Department of Biotechnology at the Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences.

His research interests include: Physiology of microbial cell factories for the production of heterologous proteins (complex biopharmaceutical proteins and industrial enzymes); systems biotechnology of recombinant yeasts; stress regulation in yeast, related to environmental and metabolic stressors; cell engineering for improved stress resistance and productivity; molecular mechanisms and regulation of protein secretion, folding and disulfide bond formation in yeasts. Within ACIB he is responsible for the research field of Cell Design and Cell Engineering.

Owner of the Science2Business Award (ACIB Projekt Pichia Cell Factory)

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Nico Callewaert Information

Director of the VIB Department of Medical Protein Research

addressVIB Medical Biotechnology Center, UGent, Albert Baertsoenkaai 3, 9000 GENT, BE

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time Session: Moleculer Engineering

PhD: Univ. of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, 2002

Postdoc.: ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, 2002-05

VIB Group leader since 2005

VIB Department Director VIB Department of Medical Protein Research since May 2014

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Pinar Calik Information

Head of Industrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering Laboratory

address Chemical Engineering Department, METU, Turkey

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time Session: Molecular Engineering

She has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Microbiology and Letters in Applied Microbiology since 2007, and she was a Guest Editor of the Biotechnology Journal’s special Issue on Biotechnology in Turkey. She received her Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering from Ankara University in 1998. Between 1998-1999 she was a Lecturer at Ankara University. From 1999-2006 she was Associate Professor at METU and since 2006 she has been working as a Professor in METU. She is a recipient of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientists Award.

Her “Industrial Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering Research Group” is currently researching on production of recombinant biomolecules, i.e., industrial enzymes, and recombinant human proteins, by Bacillus species, E.coli and Pichia pastoris. Her expertise areas are: research on influence of bioreactor operation-parameters on productivity and selectivity, whereupon, on intracellular reaction networks; modeling of intracellular reaction-networks and analyses; metabolic engineering in B. subtilis, and catalyses through metabolic engineering; and site-directed bio-mimetic chemisorption based protein affinity purification.

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Dr. Ursula Rinas Information

Scientist at Helmholtz Centre of Infection Research

address Institute of Technical Chemistry / Life Science, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.

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time Session: Bioprocess optimization & Scale-up

Research interests encompass process development recombinant protein production using microbial expression systems (mainly E. coli but also P. pastoris and A. niger). Basic and applied research on in vivo and in vitro folding of proteins (inclusion bodies, folding kinetics, renaturation procedures for complex multimeric proteins etc). Microbial cell physiology (stress responses, systems biotechnology etc). 

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