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Biological Catalysis - a gateway to industrial biotechnology

11th June 2010

This event brought together speakers from Industry, academia, and government funding bodies who gave their visions on the future role of Biological catalysis in industrial biotechnology

Introduction - John McCarthy

Speakers:

Nick Turner and Nigel Scrutton (Univeristy of Manchester, MIB) - Biological Catalysis in Manchester

Jon Lloyd (University of Manchester) - Nano-scale engineering of biominerals for catalysis

John Sime (Biosciences KTN) - Commercial opportunities from biological catalysis

Anton Glieder (ACIB) - Expanding biocatalysis from small to large molecule modification

Amy Peace (Chemicals NorthWest) - Industrial biotech for the north west chemicals sector

Alan Pettman (Pfizer) - Why is biocatalysis becoming a leading chiral synthetic methodology - future challenges and thoughts from a synthetic organic process chemist

Clare Bumphrey (EPSRC) and James Phillips (BBSRC) - Research council strategy and funding

Carol Boyer-Spooner (CIKTN) - Industrial biotechnology - The new beginning

Surinder Chahal (Croda) - Industrial biotechnology and innovation - a Croda perspective

Stuart West (Biocatalysts) - Scale up of intracellular enzyme production for biocatalysis

Sophie Walton (CPI) - Industrial biotechnology - it sounds like heaven but how do we get there?

Kai Baldenius (BASF) - Moving biocatalysis out of the niche

 

for further information please contact Dr Ros Le Feuvre