2016 SIMB Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Understanding a fermentation process is fundamental to the ability of providing avenues for productivity improvement.  Either through real-time monitoring of fermentations, methods to better characterize a design space, or ways to develop research avenues, analytics are a critical tool in any scientist’s repertoire.  The ability to measure metabolites, substrates, and product quality has been steadily improving through the years and with recent increases in computational power, a new generation of analytical tools have begun to surface for a scientist’s routine use.  Examples of how these analytical technologies have been used to improve process control for fermentation processes will be presented in this session.