Emerging Technologies for Improved Fermentation Management
Larry West, CEO, Aspen Brook Consulting, Inc., Park City, UT

NIR-Spectroscopy for Bioprocess Monitoring & Control
Dan Kopec, Sartorius Stedim North America, Bohemia, NY

Multidimensional optimization of biological systems to fit industrial applications
Claes Gustafsson, DNA2.0 Inc,, Menlo Park, CA

Break/exhibits open

The evaluation of candidate glycerol reduction strains used in corn ethanol industry by Design of Experiments (DOE)
Frank Agbogbo, Mascoma Corporation, Lebanon, NH

Fed-batch Fermentation Optimization Using Three-Level Definitive Screening Design
Khursheed Karim¹, Sangram Yadav¹ and Maureen Hamilton², (1)Microbial R&D Services, Lonza Biologics, Inc., Hopkinton, MA, (2)Fermentation R&D, Lonza Biologics, Hopkinton, MA

Efficient Characterization  of a Biomanufacturing Fermentation Process Using Definitive Screening Designs
Philip J. Ramsey, North Haven Group, Brookline, NH and Dogan Ornek, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, Cary, NC

Case study: QbD microbial process characterization and validation
Ryan Hamilton, Karthik Veeravalli, John Burr and Michael Laird, Late Stage Cell Culture Department, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA