Why Attend
Protein engineering has shaped the direction for biocatalysis being integrated into the workflow of large pharma globally. With the toolkit for enzyme design and discovery improving rapidly, this community is now presented with an enormous array of opportunities for the design of sustainable biocatalytic strategies.
The Protein Engineering Biocatalysis Congress will highlight case studies on scaling up these technologies for commercial scale whilst integrating protein engineering and directed evolution driven by industry, with academia and computational research. This event is your opportunity to analyze developments in protein engineering for biocatalysis to establish sustainable, scalable and cost-efficient API manufacturing.
As the unique meeting point of industry, academia and service provider, this forum provides a platform for the community to improve capabiliites to industrialize sustainable enzyme products and increase product efficiency globally.
- Leverage protein engineering and enzyme evolution to enable increases in efficient optimization of enzymes in the context of cascades
- Speed up biocatalyst design and widen your knowledge of sequence function through by learning about recent advances in ultrahigh-throughput methods
- Discover how to utilize machine directed evolution as a tool to access chiral molecules
- Outline steps to improve enzyme stability measurements under industrially relevant conditions
- Explore advances in synthetic biology
- Demonstrate advancements in your service capabilities
OUR PREVIOUS 2021 SPEAKERS
Claes Gustafsson
Debora Marks
Emily Wrenbeck
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Huimin Zhao
Jeremy Steflik
Justin English
Justin Siegel
Kevin Yang
Maria Lucas
Pierre Gilles
Toni Lee
Tyler Korman
Karim Beguir
Karim Beguir is the chief executive officer and co-founder of InstaDeep.
He helps companies come to grips with the latest AI breakthroughs and deploy them to improve efficiency and ROI.
As a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique and former program fellow at New York University's Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. He's also a Google developer expert and a mentor at Google for Startups Accelerator, and is a steering committee member of Deep Learning Indaba.
Karim is on a mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to a wide audience.
John McIntosh
For his PhD, John studied in Eric Schmidt’s laboratory at the University of Utah, where he studied the biosynthesis of the cyanobactin family of cyclic peptide natural products.
After finishing graduate school John was a postdoc in Frances Arnold’s laboratory at Caltech where he studied non-natural reactions of cytochrome P450s and other heme proteins.
John have been with Merck’s Small-Molecule Process Research and Development Department since 2015 where he has worked in the Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering groups. He is presently an associate principal scientist.
Adrienne Davenport
Ryan Phelan
Katharina Neufeld
Jill Caswell
Dr. Jill Caswell is the Biology Team Leader within Almac’s Biocatalysis group. After obtaining a degree in Biochemistry Jill worked in the industry producing recombinant proteins in a variety of host organisms before obtaining a PhD in 2011 through an industrial collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast.
Jill’s career has focussed on recombinant enzyme expression as well as molecular biology techniques that enable enzyme engineering. She joined Almac’s Biocatalysis group in 2012 with 10 years of industry-relevant experience to bring to the biology team, helping to grow the enzyme engineering capabilities.
Tuval Ben-Yehezkel, PhD
Tuval Ben-Yehezkel is a scientist-entrepreneur focused on applied genomics and synthetic biology. Authored key patents, publications and book chapters in synthetic biology and genomics. Founded and secured $15.3M in funding for two biotech start-up companies.
EVENT SCHEDULE
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2022 EVENT PARTNER
Aminoverse
Website: https://www.aminoverse.com/
Aminoverse enables clients to accelerate and de-risk enzyme innovation in the early value chain from target reaction to tailored enzyme.
Founded in 2020 by a team of entrepreneurs and scientists with >35 years of experience, Aminoverse’s CRO services combine enzyme wet lab expertise with in silico design and its recently launched proprietary AI technologies “EnzyMAP” and “EnzyREC”. Clients include large pharmaceutical and biotech companies as well as start-ups worldwide.
For biocatalysis, Aminoverse offers the world’s largest collections of unspecific peroxygenases and ketoglutarate-dependent oxygenases for rapid hit screening – free or 3rd party IP and scalable.
Being on track to reach break-even in 2022, Aminoverse is the go-to enzyme R&D partner for successful enzyme discovery and next generation enzyme engineering.
OUR 2021 PARTNERS
Twist Biosciences
Website: https://www.twistbioscience.com/
At Twist Bioscience, we work in service of customers who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as medicine, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage, by using our synthetic DNA tools, our customers are developing ways to better lives and improve the sustainability of the planet. The faster our customers succeed, the better for all of us, and Twist Bioscience is uniquely positioned to help accelerate their efforts.
Our innovative silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to our customers. Our platform technologies overcome inefficiencies and enable cost-effective, rapid, precise, high-throughput synthesis and sequencing, providing both the quality and quantity of the tools they need to rapidly realize the opportunity ahead. For more information about our products and services, please visit www.twistbioscience.com. Twist Bioscience is on Twitter. Sign up to follow our Twitter feed @TwistBioscience at https://twitter.com/TwistBioscience.
Proteus by Seqens
Website: https://proteus.seqens.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Codexis
Website: www.codexis.com
Codexis is a leading enzyme engineering company leveraging its proprietary CodeEvolver® platform to discover and develop novel, high performance enzymes and novel biotherapeutics. Codexis enzymes have applications in the sustainable manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, food, and industrial products; in the creation of the next generation of life science tools; and as gene therapy and biologic therapeutics. The Company’s unique performance enzymes drive improvements such as: reduced energy usage, waste generation and capital requirements; higher yields; higher fidelity diagnostics; and more efficacious therapeutics. Codexis enzymes enable the promise of synthetic biology to improve the health of people and the planet.
Zymvol
Website: https://zymvol.com/
Zymvol Biomodeling SL is a privately-owned company based out in Barcelona, Spain.
We are specialized in the discovery and optimization of enzymes for the biocatalytic synthesis of small molecules. We apply proprietary computational technologies that combines bioinformatics, 3D molecular modeling, and Quantum Mechanics to identify and engineering your enzymes in less than 4 weeks. We deliver samples of enzymes identified in any Enzyme Search or In Silico Design campaigns for our clients’ in-house validation. We take into account parameter like activity, selectivity, specificity, stability and solubility.
ATUM
Website: www.atum.bio
ProteinGPS is an engineering technology that can modify proteins for real world applications. A small number of variants are tested using high quality assays representative of the functionality, developability and manufacturability properties that your protein will need. Iterative machine learning and testing steps result in an engineered protein that will work where it matters: the real world.
Biocatalysts
Website: https://www.biocatalysts.com/enzyme-development-manufacture/
Biocatalysts Inc. is a global biotechnology company producing specialty enzymes for a variety of industries, such as food, flavor & fragrance, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, fine chemicals and many more. Biocatalysts Inc. offer both off-the-shelf enzyme products and an award-winning customized enzyme discovery, development, and manufacturing service. In addition, Biocatalysts Inc. have the knowledge and experience to take a customer’s enzyme, transfer the technical process, develop & optimize fermentations and downstream processing to maximize yield and product stability, and routinely supply commercial volumes of the enzyme back to the customer.
In 2020, Biocatalysts Inc. expanded its manufacturing capabilities with the completion of an 11,000 sq ft state of the art manufacturing plant. At the core of our new plant is a 10,000L fermenter and its supporting network of seed, feed and process vessels. The new facility will increase Biocatalysts’ fermentation capacity more than fifteen-fold, establishing the company as an enzyme manufacturer on a larger commercial scale entirely, in addition to housing a suite of down-stream processing equipment improving primary recovery and enhancing spray and freeze drying, and purification capabilities.
Loop Genomics
Website: www.loopgenomics.com
Loop Genomics develops and commercializes Loopseq, a technology for accurate long-read DNA sequencing. Loopseq is a sample prep and software combination that transforms all Illumina sequencers into high-throughput, long-read, highly accurate single-molecule counting sequencing machines. The technology is a general purpose, providing accurate long-read sequencing solutions across a diverse repertoire of sequencing applications.
In the protein engineering space, LoopSeq enables, for the first time, accurate long-read characterization of complex variant libraries and high-throughput long-read clonal sequencing using Illumina sequencers. It's unique barcoding technology removes PCR bias, produces highly accurate long-reads and removes critical bottlenecks in the protein engineering workflow.
2021 MEDIA PARTNERS
Pharma Journalist
Website: www.pharmajournalist.com
Pharma Journalist is a leading international B2B magazine providing the global information and the recent updates in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Our editorial staff works dedicatedly to provide latest information of Pharmaceutical Industry in the form of articles, news, trends, analysis, market report, press releases, whitepapers, case studies, etc. which helps Industry professionals and decision makers to stay on the top of this fast-paced industry.
Various Online marketing services and promotional activities through Pharma Journalist helps companies and organizations to reach their target audience and create brand awareness.
World Pharma Today
Website: https://www.worldpharmatoday.com/
Please visit our website for more information.NobleNet
Website: https://noblenet.co/
NobleNetSM is the world’s premier professional network designed exclusively for the STEM sector; Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and related markets. Join us for fast, free networking, highly relevant sector content and great sourcing opportunities. We are growing strongly and warmly welcome anyone with interests in these markets, across all levels, from students to CEOs. Basic membership is free.
Technology Networks
Website: www.technologynetworks.com
Scientific research and breakthroughs are more widely reported than ever. How do you cut through the noise and get to the stories that matter to you?
Over 14 million people visit Technology Networks each year to do just that.
A trusted scientific news publication, Technology Networks is uniquely divided into 12 communities that provide focused, high-quality coverage of analytical chemistry, life sciences, drug discovery and neuroscience.
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