Wednesday, June 5
practical aspects of monolith technology
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Registration (at the registration desk in Portus Congress Center)
Session Chairs: Yow-Pin Lim (ProThera Biologics, USA) and Ziad El Rassi (Oklahoma State University, USA)
9:00 AM – 9:35 AM From first concepts to production and broad application of CIM monoliths for separation of macromolecules and nanoparticles and for continuous enzymatic conversion (Djuro Josić, University of Pula)
9:35 AM – 10:00 AM Tailoring surface of chromatographic monoliths to achieve higher separation performance for large biomolecules (Urh Černigoj, Sartorius BIA Separations)
10:00 AM – 10:25 AM Addressing Materials and Resolution Challenges in the 3D Printing of Chromatography Columns (Simone Dimartino, The University of Edinburgh) – Online
10:25 AM – 10:55 AM Coffee Break
Session Chairs: Manuela Bartolini (University of Bologna, Italy) and Urh Černigoj (Sartorius BIA Separations, Slovenia)
10:55 AM – 11:20 AM Efficient and sustainable platform for preparation of a high-quality immunoglobulin G as an urgent treatment option during emerging virus outbreaks (Beata Halassy, University of Zagreb)
11:20 AM – 11:45 AM Selective capture and separation of blood plasma derived therapeutic proteins on a new monolithic media CIMmultus PrimaT (Yow-Pin Lim, ProThera Biologics)
11:45 AM – 12:10 PM Purification and glycosylation analysis of plasma proteins using 96-well monolithic plates (Irena Trbojević Akmačić, Genos)
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM Lunch in the Congress Center (provided by the organizer)
Session Chairs: Andrew Knudten (Advanced Medicine Partners, USA) and Maja Leskovec (Sartorius BIA Separations, Slovenia)
1:10 PM – 1:45 PM Immobilized enzyme reactors as a cost-effective solution to enhance (bio)assay throughput (Manuela Bartolini, University of Bologna)
1:45 PM – 2:10 PM Novel monolithic capillary columns for multimodal (reversed-phase, hydrophilic interactions, chiral and achiral) capillary electrochromatography (Ziad El Rassi, Oklahoma State University)
2:10 PM – 2:35 PM Enabling new therapeutic modalities and platforms (Aslan (Mehdi) Dehghani, Sartorius)
2:35 PM – 2:50 PM YRC: Poly(A) tail length determination with UV detection using ion pair reversed-phase liquid chromatography (Sergeja Lebar, Sartorius BIA Separations)
2:50 PM – 3:05 PM YRC: Selective hydrophobic interaction chromatography for high purity of supercoiled DNA plasmids (Ajda Sedlar, Sartorius BIA Separations)
3:05 PM – 3:20 PM YRC: HPLC for at-line reaction monitoring and purification improves yield and purity of tRNA (Polona Megušar, Sartorius BIA Separations)
3:20 PM – 3:50 PM Coffee Break
3:50 PM – 5:30 PM Poster session with grading by Ziad El Rassi, Manuela Bartolini and Beata Halassy (in the Congress center)
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Gala dinner at Restaurant TreeTop in Portoroz (provided by organizer)*