November 07, 2016

On 20-21 October 2016, the Flanders Vaccine network organised its first edition of 'Immunity for Health' conference with participation of Visegrad countries in Ghent. The event was carried out in close cooperation with the embassies of Visegrad countries: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. Flanders Vaccine, a platform under the Flanders Bio association, brings together more than 300 representatives from research institutes and universities (incl. the prestigious VIB – Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie), as well as large, small and medium-sized companies with focus on life sciences, specifically on vaccines development and delivery of biostatistics (gsk - GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen and Pfizer to name the best well known of them). The overarching goal of the organisation is to enable network building for the interested parties, incentivise their collaboration and stimulate innovation.

June 13, 2017

Dear colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to the upcoming BioTech 2017 & 7th Czech-Swiss Symposium with Exhibition, which will be held in the National Technical Library in Prague, the Czech Republic, from 13 to 17 June 2017 (www.biotech2014.cz ). 

BioTech 2017 and 7th Czech-Swiss Symposium with exhibition will cover all important aspects of advanced biotechnologies. Attention will be paid to the key technologies playing important role in bio-based economies. Microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast, and microalgae, and their enzymes, are used for manufacturing a wide range of products in sustainable, forward-looking bioprocesses. These products represent high-performance chemicals or ingredients in demand for foodstuffs, animal feed, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Lectures will be organized in following sessions: 

•Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 

•Microalgae Biotechnology 

•Environmental Biotechnology 

•Food and Agriculture Biotechnology 

•Biorefinery 

•Industrial Biotechnology 

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Selection criteria for oral and poster presentations will be based on novelty, potential for practical application and scientific merit. The official conference language will be English. 

Specialised workshops (SIG) and round-table discussions can be organised upon request to further strengthen relationship between industry and academia. Rich social program including excursion to a famous Pilsner Urquell Brewery followed by Abbey of Kladruby sightseeing is prepared for participants. 

We are looking forward to meet you in Prague, 

Preliminary programme 

Bioreactors – practical skills training for company employees at VŠCHT – 3 to 4 September 2015

Registrations at: info@czechbio.org 

3 September 2015 – the first day

10.00 Beginning 

• Basic principles of a bioreactor cultivation, basic operations, opportunities, advantages – a lecture

• Preparing a bioreactor before the cultivation – a lecture and a practical demonstration

12.00 Break

 Transfer of oxygen, heat and matter in a bioreactor – a lecture

• Possibilities of organizing the process – batch, fed-batch, continuous – features, advantages, problems, possibilities of managing the process – a lecture

• Inoculation of a bioreactor and a start of cultivation, aseptic sampling – theory and a practical demonstration

• Outline of a fed-batch process based on data obtained from a chemostat – a lecture with a concrete example of high-level recombinant protein production with Pichia pastoris.

There will be batch cultivation overnight with a sampling of a zero sample and the last sample.

4 September 2015 – second day

10.00 Beginning 

• Fed-batch cultivation, obtaining a high cell-density culture – a practical demonstration with sampling

• Cultivation of obligate anaerobic microbial cultures in a bioreactor – a lecture with  a concrete example of Clostridium bacteria genus cultivation

• Use of fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry in monitoring and managing of cultivation processes – a lecture

• Launching recombinant protein production with GFP fusion – a practical demonstration with sampling, use of fluorescence microscopy or flow cytometry to monitor production

13.00 Conclusion, end of seminar

Registration at: info@czechbio.org

Entry fee:

CzechBio association members –  4,000 CZK

Other applicants – 8,000 CZK