Schedule for BIOMAN 2008

Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA

Sunday,
July 13, 2008
5:30 to 9:00PM
Reception/Dinner
Arnold Demain, Drew U.
Antibiotics to Biologics: A History of Bioprocessing to Produce Therapeutics
Monday,
July 14, 2008 / Tuesday,
July 15, 2008 / Wednesday,
July 16, 2008 / Thursday,
July 17, 2008
8:00 to 9:00 AM
Breakfast/Overview of NBC2(8:15 to 9:00 am)-Sonia Wallman, NBC2 / 8:00 to 9:00 AM
Breakfast and Networking / 8:00 to 9:00 AM
Breakfast and Networking / 8:00 to 9:00 AM
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 to 10:00 AM
Joel Leonard, Maintenance Evangelist / 9:00 to 10:00 Am
Linda Rehfuss, MCCC
Taking Creative and Assertive Actions to Draw Students into the Biotech/Biomanufacturing Education Pipeline / 9:00 to 10:00 AM
Jason Krentz, Tengion
Organ Regeneration / 9:00 to 11:30 AM
TBD
10:00 to 10:20 AM Break / 10:00 to 10:20 AM Break / 10:00 to 10:20 AM Break
10:20 AM to 12:15 PM
Panel
(1)How to Write an NSF ATE Grant – Celeste Carter, NSF/ Sonia Wallman NBC2
or
Panel
(2) How to Set Up Short Courses for Incumbent Worker Training
- Tom Burkett, NBC2
12:15 to 12:30 PM Break / 10:20 AM to 12:15 PM
Vendor
Show and Networking
12:15 to 12:30 PM Break / 10:20 AM to 12:15 PM
Panel
(1)How to Start an Industrial Biotechnology Program–Sonia Wallman, NBC2, Bill Woodruff – Alamance CC, Sengyong Lee – Ivy Tech CC
or
Panel
(2)How to Teach Biomanufacturing at the High School Level -
Mary Jane Kurtz, NBC2
12:15 to 12:30 PM Break
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Wrap-up, Evals
Monday,
July 14, 2008 / Tuesday,
July 15, 2008 / Wednesday,
July 16, 2008
12:30 to 1:30 PM
Lunch and Networking / 12:30 to 1:30 PM
Lunch and Networking / 12:30 to 1:30 PM
Lunch and Networking
1:30 to 4:30 PM
Workshop
(1) Melanie Lenahan, and Laura Roselli, NBC2 –
QC Biochem: Protein Methods
or
Workshop
(2) Tom Burkett, NBC2 - Instrument Validation
or
Workshop
(3 )Bill Brownlowe, MCCC - Process Control
and "Purification of Antibodies using Protein A" by Josephine Pino, Christina Befumo, NBC2 / 1:30 to 4:30 PM
Workshop
(1) Jim Hewlett, NBC2 – EH&S: Root Cause Analysis and FMEA
or
Workshop
(2) Mary Jane Kurtz, NBC2 –Introduction. to Biomanufacturing Techniques
or
Workshop
(3) Bob O’Brien, NBC2 – Metrology: Pipette Calibration and Maintenance / 1:30 to 4:30 PM
Workshop
(1) Sonia Wallman, NBC2 – Facilities: A Biomanufacturing Facility on Second Life
or
Workshop
(2) DebAudino and Linda Rehfuss NBC2, - Quality Assurance: Popcorn GMP Exercise
or
Workshop
(3) ) Eszter Birck-Wilson- Use of Pichia pastoris Secreting HSA to Teach Process Development Theory and Skills

Your registration fee also covers your lodging accomodations at “The Normandy Farm Hotel". You MUST make reservations yourself and REQUEST a room reserved for the BIOMAN conference. Your charge card will only be used to 'hold' your reserved room and you will not be charged upon checkout. Please call the hotel only after you have completed your online conference registration. The phone number is 215-616-8500. Their website may be accessed at:

Thank-you and enjoy your BIOMAN 2008 experience!

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