12-Apr-2022 - Bio-PAT e.V.

The 7th BioProScale Symposium took place again as in-person event in Berlin

New ways of thinking are required: Scientists from both academia and industry presented and discussed innovative approaches and developments in biotechnology and bioprocess engineering

On the subject of “Scaling Up and Down of Bioprocesses: Technological Innovation and Cell Physiology Insights”, the 7th Symposium was again held on-site in Berlin from March 28 to 31, 2022. In parallel, there was also the possibility to follow the presentations online.

The symposium was organized by the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering (BVT) at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, the Institute for Fermentation and Biotechnology in Berlin (IfGB) as part of the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin (VLB e.V.), the Bio-PAT e.V. and the BioProScale e.V.

Finally on-site

After the last symposium in 2021, conducted completely virtually, the participants finally met, exchanged ideas and networked in-person. Additionally, online tickets were available to follow the lectures online. The organizers thank all contributors and the audience for their participation, the media partner q&more for the advertisement of the symposium, and especially the exhibitors and sponsors for their support.

Facts & numbers

223 participants from 14 countries were registered for this event. About 190 persons used the possibility to participate on-site. The symposium consisted of 14 sessions with 42 scientific lectures and 8 great plenary talks as well as 36 poster contributions. Further, 13 exhibitors showed their products and services.

The symposium was split into 2 sub-topics: Part I: „Industrial Scale – Scaling up and down – PAT“, Part II: „High Throughput Bioprocess Development – Advances in Software, Hardware, and Integration“. The booklet including all abstracts, sponsors and exhibitors and advertisements is available for download on the Bio-PAT website (under the link in the top right box).

Bio-PAT as exhibitor

The network Bio-PAT was one of the exhibitors as well as some of its members, such as the BlueSens gas sensor GmbH, Celltainer Biosolutions GmbH, Enpresso GmbH and KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH. More members (AdvaTec® Analytics GmbH, Abacus Analytical Systems GmbH, ANiMOX GmbH, OSPIN GmbH, Sequip S+E GmbH and SOPAT GmbH) provided information material, which was presented at the Bio-PAT booth.

Poster and lecture awards

The organizers thank Bionet for sponsoring the poster and the MDPI AG for sponsoring the lecture prizes and congratulate the winners. With these prizes important works by young scientists were honored.

Poster prizes:

  1. Lara Santolin, Isabel Thiele and co-authors (TU Berlin): “PHA bioplastic with tunable monomer content by flexible substrate mixtures”.
  2. Tolue Kheirkhah and co-authors (TU Berlin): “Controlling Aspergillus niger morphology in a rocking-motion bioreactor” and
    Annina Kemmer and co-authors (TU Berlin): “Modeling enzymatic glucose release to facilitate continuous feeding in miniaturized fermentations”.
  3. Stefan Kittler and co-authors (TU Wien): “Small scale mechanical cell disruption: A workflow to screen for ideal disruption conditions for recombinantly produced proteins in E. coli”.

Lecture prizes:

  1. Lena Gaugler (University Stuttgart): “Development of a single multi-compartment bioreactor (SMCB) for CHO scale-down studies in heterogeneous cultivation environments”.
  2. Laura Marie Helleckes (Research Center Jülich): “Accelerated microbial phenotyping: How process modeling and a decision policy can enhance high-throughput screening of PETase-secreting Corynebacterium glutamicum variants”.
  3. Julian Schmitz (Bielefeld University): “Application of a microfluidic single-cell cultivation platform for mammalian suspension cell lines in bioprocess research and development”.

A special award in the category sustainability was given to Dr. Pedram Ramin (Technical University of Denmark) for his engagement to cycle the complete way from Copenhagen to Berlin.

The next BioProScale Symposium will take place in 2024!

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Facts, background information, dossiers

  • biotechnology
  • bioprocess engineering
  • bioprocess technology
  • fermentation
  • bioprocess analysis
  • scale-up
  • scale-down
  • high-throughput mea…

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