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 Main Conference
Wednesday 11th February 2015
Soap Box Cafe
Fleming Room
Whittle Room
9:15 Registration
10:00 Welcome
10:15 IBLF update
Industry Perspectives
from the large to small
Keynote: Industrial
Biotechnology – A Big
10:45
Pharma Approach to
Innovation
An Adventure in
Biotechnology: Finding
11:25
the Track to a Viable
Bioprocess
Transforming Biological
11:45
Productivity
12:05
Building Partnerships
C1 fermentation
approaches to commodity
13:30 chemicals, enabled by
academic and industrial
partnering
Collaborations in IB –
13:50 The Opportunities,
Challenges and
Rt. Hon George Freeman
Minister for Life Sciences
Steve Bagshaw, CEO,
Fujifilm Diosynth
Biotechnologies & IBLF cochair
Chair: Steve Bagshaw
Murray Brown, Principal
Scientific Investigator,
Synthetic Biochemistry,
Advanced Manufacturing
Technologies, GSK
David Johnson, Research
Associate, Lucite
Sean Ward, Founder &
CTO, Synthace
Lunch
Chair Ian Fotheringham,
Ingenza
NWE Pilot Plants
Workshop
Facilitator: Adrian
Higson, NNFCC
Michelle Gradley, Director of 13:00
Bio-Base Europe Pilot
Process Biotechnology,
Plant, Belgium
Biosyntha
13:15
Muriel Dewilde,
Business
Developer
David Randall, R&D
Manager, Chemoxy
International
Steve Pearson,
Head of Business
& Strategy
13:20
Centre for Process
Innovation, UK
13:35
Successes
Successful
commercialisation of
technology for
14:10 manufacturing Active
Pharmaceutical
Ingredients developed
through collaboration
Key partnerships to scale
the process technology to
14:30 convert whisky
production residues into
biofuels and biochemicals
14:50
Exploring the commercial
viability of peptones
15:30
isolated from Norwegian
salmon co-products
From The Lab to The
15:50 Markets – CelluComp
Case Study
Commercialising
biocatalytic routes to
flavours and fragrances
Keynote: Industrial
16:30 Biotechnology: Enabling
the Bioeconomy
Arno van de Kant,
13:40
Bioprocess Plant
Business
Facility, The Netherlands Development
13:55
Manager
14:00
Mark Simmers, CEO, Celtic
Biorenewables
Renewables
Development Centre
14:15
Joe Ross, Director
14:20
ARD
14:35
Yvon Le Hénaff,
Managing Director
Chair: Ed Green, Green
Biologics
14:40
BEACON
14:55
Mike Morris,
Business
Development
Manager
Kjartan Sandnes, CEO,
Alkymar AS
15:00
15:30
Networking Break
Products to Market
16:10
David Chaplin, Head of
R&D, Dr Reddy's
Christian Kemp-Griffin,
CEO, Cellucomp
Networking Break
Scale up challenges
Jason King, CEO, Oxford
Biotrans
15:30
15:40
Andrew Morgan, Chief
Scientist, DuPont N&H
15:50
16:00
16:10
16:20
Chair: Adrian
Higson, NNFCC
Steve Skill,
Knowledge
Photobioreactor designs:
Transfer &
Past, present and future
Research Officer,
contenders
Swansea
University
Håvard Sletta,
Industrial biotechnology
Senior Scientist,
at SINTEF
SINTEF
Engineering membrane
Darrell Patterson,
fractionation and
University of Bath
purifications for
bioreaction systems
16:30
16:40
16:50
17:00
17:0018:30
Wine Reception
Main Conference
Membrane bioreactors
Bob Lovitt, Senior
for enhanced and
Lecturer, Swansea
intensified bioprocessing University
Keith Waldron,
Exploitation of agri-food Research Leader,
chain waste streams
IFR
Sponsored by Biocatalysts Ltd
Thursday 12th February 2015
Soap Box Cafe
Fleming Room
The IB Den
Abbey Room
Whittle Room
Registration
8:30
Feedstocks &
Biorefining I
Welcome
8:55
Keynote: Agricultural
feedstock availability for
9:00 the bio-based economy
Yvonne Armitage, Head of
Biosciences & Industrial
Biotechnology, KTN Ltd
Chair: Marit
Sommerfelt
Sponsored by: Chemical
Valseth,
Sciences Scotland supported
Innovation
by Scottish Enterprise and
Norway
Scottish Development
9:35
Welcome
Michelle
Carter, KTN
Ltd
International
Jonathan Scurlock, Chief
9:30 – Launch of the Biorefinery
Advisor, Renewable Energy
9:35
Roadmap for Scotland
and Climate Change,
National Farmer's Union
Norwegian Biorefinery
Laboratory (NorBioLab)
BBSRC Networks in
and The Norwegian
Industrial
Chair: Celia Caulcott,
9:35 Nanocellulose
Bioetchnology &
BBSRC
09:45
Technology Platform
Bioenergy Session 1
(NorCel); R&D along the
green value chain
Celia Caulcott, Executive
Integrated chitin and
9:50 9:30 Introduction
Director, Innovation & Skills,
ryegrass acid biorefinery
10:00
BBSRC
(iCRAB)
Methane as a
10:10sustainable feedstock for
10:20
production of microbial
High Value Chemicals/Natural Products & Novel Chassis
Alan
Wolstenholme,
Chair, Scottish IB
Development
Group
Karin Øyaas,
Research
Manager, Paper
and Fiber
Research Institute,
Norway
Facilitators: Michelle Carter &
Bryan Hanley, KTN Ltd
9:40
Jonathan Williams,
Research Scientist, 9:45
Pennotec
Arild Johannessen,
CEO, Bioprotein
9:50
AS
Christian KempGriffin
CelluComp Ltd
Q&A
Nick Thompson
Fiberight Ltd
proteins and fine
chemicals
Glycell Pretreatment –
10:30
Cracking the critical step Alex Baker, COO,
to economic biomass
Leaf Resources Ltd
10:40
feedstocks
High Value Chemicals
9:35 from Plants Network
(HVCfP)
Natural Products
Discovery &
9:45
Bioengineering Network
(NPRONET)
High Value Chemicals
9:55 from microalgae
(PHYCONET)
10:05
Chemicals from C1 Gas
(C1NET)
Ian Graham, University of
York
10:40
Jason Micklefield, University
of Manchester
Saul Purton, University
College London
Nigel Minton, University of
Nottingham
Feedstocks &
Biorefining II
11:00 Fiberight - A sugar
platform biorefinery from
11:10 MSW
Separation and
11:20 Extraction of High Value
Chemicals from
11:30 Coproducts of Food and
Drink Processing
Development & Production of Enzymes & Biologics
Biocatalysis Network
10:15
(Biocatnet)
10:25
Bioprocessing Network
(BioProNET)
Nick Turner, University of
Manchester
Mark Smales, University of
Kent
Markets & Supply
Invited speaker: Early
11:40
stage company building
supply chain for bio12:00
based products
Seeing the wood for the
12:05 trees: Defining a growth
strategy for Industrial
12:15 Biotechnology in
Scotland
12:20
Big Data & Industrial
Biotech
12:30
Networking break
10:35
BBSRC Networks in
Industrial
Bioetchnology &
Bioenergy Session 2
Networking break
Chair: Yvonne Armitage,
KTN
12:30
Lunch
9:55
Q&A
Chair: Simon
Baty, KTN
10:00 Jonathan Hughes
Dhivya Puri,
Researcher,
Fiberight Ltd
10:05
Pennotec Ltd
Q&A
Narinder Bains,
Bento Bioworks
Director, Sere-Tech 10:10 Bethan Wolfenden
Ltd
Innovation Ltd
Chair: Raj Mistry,
10:15
KTN Ltd
Q&A
Prakash Korde,
10:20
MD, ValueForm Ltd
Marianne
Morrison
Roger Kilburn,
CEO, Industrial
Biotechnology
Innovation Centre
(IBioIC)
Adrian Toland,
Business
Development
Manager, STFC
10:25
Q&A
10:30
Brenda Parker
10:35
Q&A
YOLO for Men
Ltd
Phytofutures
Ltd
Biorefining
Lignocellulosic
11:05 Biorefinery Network
(LBNet)
Simon McQueen-Mason,
University of York
13:10
13:20
11:15
Anaerobic Digestion
Network (ADNet)
13:30
Charles Banks, University of
Southampton
13:40
11:25
Food Waste Network
(FoodWasteNet)
Dimitrios
Charalampopoulos,
University of Reading
13:50
14:00
David Leak, University of
Bath
14:20
14:40
11:35 Plants to Products (P2P)
Underpinning Research & Technology
Glycoscience Tools for
Biotechnology &
11:45 Bioenergy (IB Carb)
Metals in Biology
11:55 Network
Crossing Biological
Membranes Network
12:05 (CBMNet)
Underpinning
technologies
GRASPTM – scalable
genome-mining
technology for rapid and
cost-effective
development of
biocatalysis enzymes
with commercial IB
applications
Rational primary
sequence space mining
for novel biocatalysis
discovery, in conjunction
with advanced
colorimetric screening
technology
Integrating combinatorial
genetics, fermentation
and process
development to
accelerate bioprocess
implementation
CHO GS knockout: the
first step for the targeted
advancement of
mammalian host cell
lines
14:50
What can desktop 3D
printing do for industrial
15:00
biotechnology?
Chair: Amy
Tayler, KTN Ltd
10:40 Refreshments
Simon Charnock,
Aragreen (UK)
Managing Director, 11:00 Jerome Vaughan
Ltd
Prozomix Ltd
Gary Black,
Personal Chair in
Protein
Biochemistry,
Northumbria
University
11:05
Ian Fotheringham,
President, Ingenza 11:10
Ltd
Mark Stockdale,
Team Leader
(Bioproduction)
Horizon Discovery
Group plc
Justin Perry,
Enterprise Fellow,
Northumbria
University
11:15
Q&A
Basil Omar
CHAIN
Biotechnology
Ltd
Q&A
11:20 Muhammad Javed
Sabine Flitsch, University of
Manchester
11:25
Q&A
Nigel Robinson, Durham
University
11:30
Mark Long
Gavin Thomas, University of
York
11:35
Q&A
Biotech
Consultants
Ltd. (BTCL)
Naturiol Ltd
12:15
Lunch
Chair Ian Shott, Chair
IBioIC
Future Perspectives on
Mark Morgan, Managing
Industrial Biotechnology Director, IHS Consulting
Food Security Through
Alan Shaw, President and
Sustainable Life Sciences CEO, Calysta Energy
Networking break
Panel Discussion
Moderator Dave Lawrence
Leadership Council Industry
Chairs: Steve Bagshaw (IB),
Moving towards a
Lionel Clarke (Synthetic
Bioeconomy
biology), TBC (Agri-Tech),
Ian Shott (CGP), Ian
McCubbin (MMIP)
TBC
Steve Bagshaw, CEO,
Fujifilm Diosynth
IBLF Awards Ceremony
Biotechnologies & IBLF cochair
Steve Bagshaw, CEO,
Closing remarks
Fujifilm Diosynth
Biotechnologies
Future Perspectives
13:30
13:50
14:10
14:30
15:20
15:35
16:00
16:05
Networking break
11:40
Pattanathu
Rahman
11:45
Q&A
11:50
Dan Murray
11:55
Q&A
12:00
12:05
Jaydeep Korde
Q&A
ValueForm Ltd
12:10
Namdar BaghaeiYazdi
Alkol Biotech
Ltd
12:15
Q&A
12:20
Andrew Haigh
Q&A
12:25
TeeGene
Biotech Ltd
Industrial
Phycology Ltd
Vitaplankton
Ltd