Monolith Summer School and Symposium on Biochromatography, Bioconversion, and Solid Phase Synthesis - WRAP-up
May 29-June 2, 2010
Portoroz, Slovenia
From May 29th to June 2nd, the world came to Portoroz to discuss the latest information regarding Monolith Technology. With 150 participants from 18 countries located in N. America, Europe, and Asia, world renowned lecturers, and opportunities to network the meeting was rated a great success by the participants.
The program began with the Monolith Summer School which consisted of 7 Lectures covering:
- Principles of liquid chromatography and introduction to chromatography with monolithic supports
- Principles of gradient elution chromatography
- Properties and scale-up of monolithic supports
- Adsorptive chromatography: the influence of stationary phase architecture
- pDNA purification
- Virus purification
- IP in downstream processing
and 3 practical Workshops focused on
- Application of CIM® Monolithic Columns for PAT and consistent scale-up
- Purification of pDNA using CIM® monoliths
- Purification of viruses using CIM® monoliths
- Monolith preparation
- Theoretical aspects and characterization of monoliths
- Protein purification
- Virus and DNA purification
- Monoliths in affinity chromatography and other applications
Also, there were a record 34 Posters among which 3 outstanding posters received the following awards:
- First Place-Tihana Kurtovic from Institute of Immunology Inc., Zagreb, Croatia for her work Isolation of ammodytoxin A from Vipera ammodytes venom using two step chromatography
- Second Place- Elena Maksimova from Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia for her work Macroporous polymer monoliths for planar chromatography
- Third workplace- Bastian Brand from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, Switzerland for his work on Reactive Gelation
Under the Young Researcher Best Presentation Competition, Franci Smrekar from BIA Separations Ljubljana Slovenia was awarded for his work Characterization of monoliths for virus purification using bacteriophages as model viral particle.
Nina Vizintin
Chairman of Organizing Committee
