Metabolic Engineering/Microbial Fermentation Workshop

This one week program includes two highly-interactive workshops that address core aspects of industrial biotechnology.  The two workshops will take place August 12-16, 2019.

Benefits:

• Practical, hands-on training provided onsite at UC San Diego
• Immediate application of tools and techniques at your organization
• Taught by UC San Diego faculty and expert practitioners in the field

The first workshop, Metabolic Engineering for Industrial Biotechnology, will focus on metabolic engineering as applied to high volume/low cost chemical and materials and explore how systems approaches are used in this area.

Speakers:

• Ben Griffin, Ph.D., Program Director & Director, Genomatica
• Michael Japs, Senior Director, Process Development, Genomatica
• Harish Nagarajan, Senior R&D Manager, Sytems Biology & Bioinformatics, Genomatica
• Nicky Caiazza Ph.D, Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Cellibre
• Bernhard Palsson, Ph.D., Professor, UC San Diego and CEO, Novo Nordisk Center for Biosustainability
• Adam Feist, Ph.D., Project Scientist, UC San Diego and Senior Scientist, Technical University of Denmark
• Kirsten Benjamin, Ph.D., Vice President, R&D, Amyris
• Pirkko Suominen, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President, Cargill
• Richard Fox, Executive Director, Data Science at Inscripta, Inc.
• Fernando Valle, Biology Advisor, BP

The second workshop, Microbial Fermentation Workshop, will provide a deep dive into bioreactor principles and bioprocess development.

Speakers:

• Michael Japs, Senior Director, Process Technology, Genomatica
• Rachel Dutton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology, UC San Diego
• Jon Hansen, Ph.D., Chief Engineering Officer, Triton Algae Innovations
• Tim Dodge, M.S., Senior Staff Scientist, DuPont
• Jason Ryder, Ph.D., CTO and Co-Founder, Miraculex
• Andrew Saarni, Fermentation Deployment Engineer, Genomatica
• Bo Chen, Director, Process Development, Genomatica
• Karen Fortmann, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, White Labs, Inc.

For more information, please contact unexbio@ucsd.edu or (858) 534-9353.

Course Number: PRGF-70018
Credit: 0.00 unit(s)