With the over-riding response of our recent 2012 Cell Line Development and Engineering being so positive, we felt the need to share with you how the event went and some of the thoughts from both our speakers and delegates. Check out what happended at our 2012 event:

Our exhibition room was a great opportunity for our sponsors and exhibitors to talk directly with our delegates, as well as our delegates to find out more about the latest technologies and services available to further develop and improve current cell lines.

One of the conference rooms at our 2012 event. Very representative of the constant full attendance throughout the 5 day.

One of the many interactive sessions organised to encourage the audience to get involved and make the most of the leading experts present.
''The organisers are to be complimented for putting together such a diverse, knowledgeable and friendly group of speakers''- Dr Daniel Adams, Executive Chairman, Global Head Business Development, Protein Sciences, USA
Key topics included:
- Transient expression systems
- Optimising cell culture media
- Improved screening/Automation
- Clone selection technologies
- High throughput platforms
- Targeted integration and vector design
- Next-generation protein expression (incluign biosimilars and biobetters)
- The 'omics
- RNA technology
- Epigenetics and cell engineering
- Cell banking and viral contamination concerns
- Cell line quality and stability
Our 4 sessions covered:
Optimising cell culture media
Alternative expresison systems
Introduction to the 'omics
Viral contamination: Understanding your cell culture
"Well organised conference with broad spectrum of industrial cell culture topics"
"Useful overview of animal cell technology and its industrial applications"
"A human size meeting where it is easy to exchange views"
Dr Regis Sodoyer, Head Platforms, R&D, Sanofi Pasteur, France
Dr Yves Durocher, Research Officer, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Dr Bernie Sweeney, Group Leader, Protein Expression and Purification, UCB Pharma, UK
Dr Athena Wong, Scientist, Genentech, USA
Dr Marcia Coyne, Senior Manager, Cell Banking & Testing Department, Genentech, USA
Dr Arifa S. Khan, Senior Investigator, CBER, FDA, USA
Dr Catherine Huntington, Scientist II, MedImmune, UK
Dr Sabine Geisse, Director / NLS, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
Professor Torsten Tonn, Medical Director and CEO, German Red Cross Blood Donation Service East GmbH, Germany
Dr Jolanda Gerritsen, Manager, Cell Line Development, Genmab, The Netherlands
Dr Helen Lock, GSK, UK
Professor Alan Dickson, Director, Centre of Excellence in Biopharmaceutical, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Dr Daniel Adams, Executive Chairman, Global Head of Business Development, Protein Sciences, USA
Dr Glyn Stacey, Director, UK Stem Cell Bank, NIBSC, UK
Dr Matthias Hackl, Scientist, Vienna Institute of Biotechnology, Austria
Dr Yung-shyeng Tsao, Senior Principal Scientist, Merck, USA
Dr Alessia Bachmann, Molecular Biology Associate Scientist, Merck Serono, Italy
Dr Christina Andersen, Scientist, Symphogen A/S, Denmark
Dr Susanne Corisdeo, Research Scientist, Centocor, USA
Professor John Masters, Professor of Experimental Pathology, UCL, UK
Dr Markus Sock, Fraunhofer IME, Germany
Dr Thomas Jostock, Technology Platform leader, Integrated Biologics Profiling, Novartis, Switzerland
Dr Stéphane Olivier, Scientist/Project Manager, Protein Department, Vivalis, France
Dr Gudrun Schiedner, CSO, Cevec, Germany
Dr Thomas Schirrmann, Research Group Leader and Lecturer, Department of Biotechnology, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
Dr Beate Kleuser, Head of Cell Biology, Biotech Process Sciences Department, Merck Serono, Switzerland
Dr Jörg von Hagen, Head, Process Development R&D, Merck KGaA, Germany
Dr Martin Powers, NICB, Dublin University, Ireland
Dr Padraig Doolan, Program Leader, Microarray/Bioinformatics core facility, NICB, Dublin City University, Ireland