This one week program includes two highly-interactive workshops that address core aspects of industrial biotechnology. The two workshops will take place August 3-7, 2020.
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
- 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)
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Science & Technology department at 858-534-3229 or unex-sciencetech@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.