Final Program
Final program


MSS2008
3rd Monolith Summer School & Symposium
May 30–June 4, 2008, Portorož, Slovenia
Final Program!
Friday, May 30
11:00-13:00 Registration
13:00-14:30 WS01:
Principles of liquid chromatography and introduction to chromatography with monolithic supports
Instructor: Alois Jungbauer
University of Applied Life Sience and Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria
14:30-16:00 WS02:
Properties and scale-up of monolithic supports
Instructors: Aleš Podgornik and Miloš Barut
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 WS03:
Principles of gradient and step elution chromatography
Instructor: Shuichi Yamamoto
Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan
17:30-23:00 SE01:
A visit to the Vilenica cave followed by dinner at the local tourist farm
Organisers:
Barbara Lah and Lidija Urbas
Saturday, May 31
9:00-12:00 WS04: (group 1*)
Practical applications for monoliths in the purification of antibodies
Instructor: Pete Gagnon
Validated Biosystems,
San Clemente, CA/USA
WS05: (group 2*)
Developing chromatographic methods in just a fraction of time using CIM short monolithic columns
Instructor: Peter Brne
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia


WS06: (group 2*)
Pilot and industrial scale CIM short monolithic columns: Characteristics and transfer of linear gradient methods
Instructor: Janez Jančar
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
WS07: (group 3*)
Purification of viruses and bacteriophages using CIM monolithic supports
Instructor: Matjaž Peterka
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

WS08: (group 3*)
Purification of plasmid DNA using CIM monolithic supports
Instructor: Matjaž Peterka
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-16:30 WS04: (group 2*)
Practical applications for monoliths in the purification of antibodies
Instructor: Pete Gagnon
Validated Biosystems,
San Clemente, CA/USA
WS05: (group 3*)
Developing chromatographic methods in just a fraction of time using CIM short monolithic columns
Instructor: Peter Brne
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia


WS06: (group 3*)
Pilot and industrial scale CIM short monolithic columns: Characteristics and transfer of linear gradient methods
Instructor: Janez Jančar
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
WS07: (group 1*)
Purification of viruses and bacteriophages using CIM monolithic supports
Instructor: Matjaž Peterka
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

WS08: (group 1*)
Purification of plasmid DNA using CIM monolithic supports
Instructor: Matjaž Peterka
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:45 WS09:
IgM purification – in the fast lane
Instructor: Pete Gagnon, Validated Biosystems, San Clemente, CA/USA
18:30-23:00 SE02:
A walk through the Strunjan Nature Reserve and tasting of regional specialties
Organisers:
Barbara Lah and Lidija Urbas
Sunday, June 1
9:00-12:00 WS04: (group 3*)
Practical applications for monoliths in the purification of antibodies
Instructor: Pete Gagnon
Validated Biosystems,
San Clemente, CA/USA
WS05: (group 1*)
Developing chromatographic methods in just a fraction of time using CIM short monolithic columns
Instructor: Peter Brne
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia


WS06: (group 1*)
Pilot and industrial scale CIM short monolithic columns: Characteristics and transfer of linear gradient methods
Instructor: Janez Jančar
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
WS07: (group 2*)
Purification of viruses and bacteriophages using CIM monolithic supports
Instructor: Matjaž Peterka
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

WS08: (group 2*)
Purification of plasmid DNA using CIM monolithic supports
Instructor: Matjaž Peterka
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
12:00-15:00 Registration
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 WS10:
How to search and read patent documents
Hans-Wilhelm Meyers
Patentanwälte Patent Attorneys von Kreisler Selting Werner, Köln, Germany
15:00-17:00 Young Researchers Corner
Mentors:
František Švec – Chairman
Mookambeswaran A Vijayalakshmi, Yow-Pin Lim, Shuichi Yamamoto, Pete Gagnon

YR01:
Purification and concentration of bacteriophage T4 using monolithic chromatographic supports
Franci Smrekar
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

YR02:
Characterisation of Grafted weak anion exchange methacrylate monoliths
Vida Frankovič
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

YR03:
Determination of flow-through pore characteristic parameters of silica monolithic columns and their influence on the chromatographic separation performance
Romas Skudas
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

YR04:
Aggregation of virus-like particles upon liberation from endoplasmic reticulum
Claire Burden
University College London, London, UK

YR05:
New format of monoliths applications: 3D–protein nanoarrays
Marina Slabospitskaya
Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

YR06:
Optimization of norbornene-based monolithic pre-columns for their use in nanomedical research
Christina Gatschelhofer
Institute of Medical Technologies and Health Management, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria

YR07:
Characterisation of the CIM® monolithic analytical column for the quantification of virus particles
Lidija Urbas
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

YR08:
Novel CIM monoliths for affinity chromatography
Peter Brne
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

YR09:
CIM QA monoliths as a tool for concentration of enteric viruses
Katarina Kovač
Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

YR10:
Search of new macroporous monolithic materials for modern 3-D microarrays construction
Evgenia Vlakh
Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-17:45 Welcome by:
Alois Jungbauer, Chairman of Scientific Committee Aleš Štrancar, Chairman of Organizing Committee
  Plenary lectures I Section Chairs: Alois Jungbauer, Thomas Muster
17:45-18:30 PL01:
From State-to-the-Art to future challenges in viruses and viral vaccines purification
Charles Lutsch
Sanofi PasteurInc, Swiftwater, PA/USA
18:30-19:15 PL02:
The promise of monolith-based industrial purification of biomolecules
Pete Gagnon
Validated Biosystems, San Clemente, CA/USA
20:00-23:00 SE03:
BIA Separations Awards Presentation: president of the company awards committee Aleš Podgornik
Celebration of BIA Separations 10th anniversary

Organisers:
Maja Artnak and Karmen Čuček
Monday, June 2
  Plenary lectures II Section Chairs: Alois Jungbauer and Thomas Muster
9:00-9:45 PL03:
Three decades of innovation and still a bottleneck
Uwe Gottschalk
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, Goettingen, Germany
  Monolith preparations Section Chairs: František Švec, Aleš Podgornik
9:45-10:15 KN01:
Macroporous gel (cryogel) monolithic media for processing of particulate containing fluids and cell culture applications: current state
Fatima Plieva
Protista Biotechnology, Lund, Sweden
10:15-10:45 KN02:
Metathesis polymerization and electron beam curing derived monolithic devices
Michael R. Buchmeiser
Institut für Technische Chemie, Leipzig, Germany
10:45-11:05 L01:
Monolithic polymeric reactive media from high internal phase emulsions (PolyHIPEs)
Peter Krajnc
University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
11:05-11:30 Coffe Break
  Theoretical aspects and characterization of monolith I Section Chairs: Alois Jungbauer, Shuichi Yamamoto
11:30-12:00 KN03:
Novel applications of porous polymer monoliths
František Švec
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA/USA
12:00-12:30 KN04:
Charged membranes and monoliths in chromatography
Mark Etzel
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI/USA
12:30-12:50 L02:
Synthesis and evaluation of thermo-responsive monolithic stationary phases for chromatography
Farnoosh Roohi
Max-Plank institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
12:50-13:10 L03:
Tailoring monolith properties for purification of macromolecules
Aleš Podgornik
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
13:10-15:00 Lunch
  Theoretical aspects and characterization of monolith II Section Chairs: Alois Jungbauer, Shuichi Yamamoto
15:00-15:30 KN05:
Theoretical background of short layer convection-aided chromatography
Shuichi Yamamoto
Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan
15:30-15:50 L04:
On the optimization of monolithic morphology for large and small molecule applications
Jens Mohr
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
15:500-16:10 L05:
Non-invasive conductivity based techniques for the characterisation of stationary phase chemistry and biochemistry on polymer monoliths
Damian Connolly
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
16:10-16:30 Coffe Break
  Application of monoliths for affinity chromatograpgy Section Chairs: Tatiana Tennikova, Yow-Pin Lim
16:30-17:00 KN06:
Functionalized CIM disks / tubes for the separation of mAbs from hybridoma supernatant, ascite fluids and recombinant antibody fragments
Mookambeswaran A. Vijayalakshmi
LIMTech.S, Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, Compiegne Cedex, France and Centre for BioSeparations Technology, VIT Vellore, India
17:00-18:00 POSTER SESSION I
Moderators:
Alois Jungbauer – Chairman
Tatiana Tennikova, Thomas Muster, Joachim Reusch, Djuro Josić
18:30-23:00 SE04:
Boat trip along the Slovenian coast including dinner of typical local sea food
Organisers:
Gregor Krajnc and Simona Šinko
Tuesday, June 3
  DNA purification Section Chairs: Pete Gagnon, Tatiana Tennikova
9:00-9:30 KN08:
Upscale from 800 mL to 8 L CIM – The next generation of pDNA purification
Harald Paril
Boehringer Ingelheim Austria GmbH, Vienna, Austria
9:30-9:50 L06:
Adsorption of pDNA on anion exchange surface
Tina Tarmann
University of Applied Life Sience and Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria
9:50-10:10 L07:
Separation of supercoiled and open circular forms of plasmid DNA by novel analytical monolithic columns
Miloš Barut
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
10:10-10:30 L08:
Separation of hypoviral dsRNA on CIM - DEAE monoliths
Mladen Krajačić
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
10:30-10:50 L09:
Optimization of ion-exchange monolithic columns for purification of large plasmids
Nika Lendero
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
  Virus purification I Section Chairs: Alois Jungbauer, Miloš Barut
11:20-11:50 KN09:
FluVaccDeltaNS1- a live attenuated replication-deficient influenza vaccine
Thomas Muster
AVIR Green Hills Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
11:50-12:20 KN10:
Development of efficient pseudo-affinity methods for fast separation and sensitive analytical detection of influenza virus using monolithic media
Tatiana Tennikova
Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
12:20-12:40 L10:
Influenza vaccine purification platform
Elisabeth Maurer
AVIR Green Hills Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
12:40-13:10 VS01:
CIM Convective Interaction Media® - an ideal chromatographic support for purifying large biomolecules
Darryl G. Glover
BIA Separations, Ljubljana, Slovenia
13:10-14:30 Lunch
  Virus purification II Section Chairs: Alois Jungbauer, Miloš Barut
14:30-14:50 L11:
IMAC processing of 6xhistidine tagged lentiviral vectors using monolithic adsorbents
Matthew C. Cheeks
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
14:50-15:10 L12:
Rapid analysis of adenoviruses with prototype CIM QA analytical HPLC columns to support the development of a high titre manufacturing platform
Philip Ball
Eden Biodesign Ltd, Liverpool, UK
15:10-15:30 L13:
Combination of qPCR and CIM technology to greatly improve the detection of different viruses
Ion Gutiérrez-Aguirre
National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
15:30-15:50 L14:
Chromatographic and non-chromatographic separation of stem cells
Kornelia Schriebl
Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore, Singapore
15:50-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:30 POSTER SESSION II
Moderators:
Alois Jungbauer – Chairman
Tatiana Tennikova, Thomas Muster, Joachim Reusch, Djuro Josić
18:30-23:00 Young Researchers Corner Award Presentation: president of the committee František Švec
Poster Award Presentation: president of the committee Alois Jungbauer
Followed by a gala dinner
Organisers:
Nina Dešman Vižintin and Marko Jarc
Wednesday, June 4
  Protein purification Section Chairs: Shuichi Yamamoto, Mookambeswaran A Vijayalakshmi
9:00-9:30 KN11:
Bringing downstream productivity into phase with upstream antibody production
Pete Gagnon
Validated Biosystems, San Clemente, CA/USA
9:30-9:50 L15:
High performance monolith affinity chromatography for fast quantitation of immunoglobulin G from CHO supernatants and purified samples
Anne Tscheliessnig
Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore, Singapore
9:50-10:10 L16:
Downstream processing of therapeutic proteins inter-alpha inhibitors
Yow-Pin Lim
ProThera Biologics, Providence, RI/USA
10:10-10:30 L17:
Proteomics as a tool for optimization of human plasma protein separation
Djuro Josić
COBRE, Center for Cancer Research Development, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, RI/USA
10:30-10:50 L18:
Application of a fast analysis system based on monolithic disks for the simultaneous detection of an IgG antibody and other proteins in cell culture medium
Cornelia Kasper
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany
10:50-11:10 L19:
BioSMB, a continuous multicolumn chromatography process for monoclonal antibody purification
Maarten Pennings
Xendo, Leiden, The Netherlands
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
  Application of monoliths for bioconversion Section Chairs: Tatiana Tennikova, Djuro Josic
11:30-11:50 L20:
CIM-Immobilized butyrylcholinesterase in the characterization of new inhibitors that could ease Alzheimer’s disease
Manuela Bartolini
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
11:50-12:10 L21:
Enzymes immobilization on monolithic disks: an innovative strategy for protein digestion and drug metabolism studies
Roul Nicoli
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
12:10-12:30 L22:
Conception of monolithic enzymatic micro-reactor: new route for the fast production and purification of bioactive oligosaccharides
Cedric Delattre
Greentech, Saint Beauzire, France
12:30-13:00 Wrap up and Presentation of the Certificates of Completion
Alois Jungbauer, Chairman of Scientific Committee
Aleš Štrancar, Chairman of Organizing Committee