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Final Agenda Is Now Available for 4th Annual Cell Culture & Bioprocessing Congress

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Final Agenda Is Now Available for our 4th Annual Cell Culture & Bioprocessing Congress

Production is now complete for the 4th Annual Cell Culture & Bioprocessing Congress with the co-located 2nd Annual Stem Cell Congress and the Cell & Gene Therapy Congress taking place on the 9th & 10th November 2015 in London. You can now download the final conference programme here to view who is speaking across the two days.

This Congress is an executive platform for over 170 experts to network, exchange ideas, and discuss the latest innovations in the field. Delegates come from a variety of areas, including cell line development, cell line engineering, up-and-downstream operations, biotechnology, process development,biologics production and more. Providing a comprehensive round up of the latest in cell culture and biological processing, the conference will cover subjects spanning from raw materials quality control and novel cell line development technologies, to advances in process development and strategies to deal with moving to clinical trial and manufacture.

Join over 170 senior delegates representing global pharmaceutical organisations, leading biotech companies and internationally renowned academic institutions. The conference will provide over 50 presentations and case studies focusing on the key issues in cell line optimisation, process development and biological production.

Our Congress will consist of 4 interactive streams:
 • Cell Line Development: Stem Cells, Genome-Editing, CRISPR & NGS
 •  Process Development
 • Cell Line Development: Mammalian & Bacterial Expression Systems
 • Biological Production

Oxford Global interviewed Nicolas Mermod, Professor of Biotechnology at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne and a confirmed speaker of the Congress.

Nicolas will talk about the Use of Cell Genome NGS Sequencing to Assess Clonality.

You are speaking on the use of Next Generation Sequencing to assess clonality at the Congress this year. Why is this a particularly exciting area right now, and what could the impact on the industry potentially be?

“I think it’s particularly exciting right now because we have access to a number of genomic sequences for a number of CHO cell lines, and also CHO cell clones. They are the public CHO genomes and everybody is also sequencing their own CHO genomes – it’s quite exciting now to be able to do the comparisons between cell lines and between clones, and to correlate their productivity and their properties to the genome sequence, even if it is still very difficult. Perhaps one of the immediate potentials that I can see could be that, by sequencing whole genomes, one quickly gets an idea not only of the transgene sequences, but with an unbiased approach also of the genomic properties – for instance, whether the DNA repair machinery is okay, and whether the post-translational modification genes are as expected […]”

There will be over 40 speakers presenting across the two days including:
 • Keith Foster, VP Scientific Affairs Toxins, Ipsen Bioinnovation
 • Johnson Varghese, Senior Director Analytical Development, Shire
 • Lada Laenen, Senior Director, Genzyme
 • Jonathan Wrigley, Associate Director, AstraZeneca
 • Arna Andrews, Director, Cell Line Development, CSL Limited

Click here to review the full list of speakers: http://www.cellculture-congress.com/who-is-speaking/

Attending this Congress will give you:
 • Full access to the 2 days of conference presentations
 • Free access to the 2nd Annual Stem Cell Congress and Cell & Gene Therapy Congress
 • Lunch and Refreshments during the congress
 • Access to all networking activities
 • Access to exhibition area
 • Conference workbook and online access to conference materials, notes and presentations

Download the conference programme to find out more about this two day congress: http://www.cellculture-congress.com/download-agenda-marketing/

Reserve Your Place Today!
Registration continues and with only a limited number of places available, please contact Guillaume Alonso on
g.alonso@oxfordglobal.co.uk  or call on +44(0)1865 248 455 today.

If you’re looking to present a poster, we have limited spaces available on a strictly first come first served basis. For further information regarding our poster presentations, or to find out more about this or any of our upcoming events in our Biologics series 2015 please contact Guillaume Alonso on g.alonso@oxfordglobal.co.uk  or call us on +44(0)1865 248455.

You can also discover even more and discuss the latest methods in cell line engineering and advances in cell culture development on our social media:
LinkedIn:
Cell Culture Networking Group
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CellCultureConf