29 February 2024

Engineering Biology: Translation from Academia to Industry

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SCI's Engineering Biology Group

SCI, London, UK

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Synopsis

Engineering Biology is an important and fast developing technology. It is “the application of rigorous engineering principles to the design of biological systems, with the objective of contributing to economic activity and sustainable and resource-efficient solutions to the societal challenges faced in food, chemicals, materials, water, energy, health and environmental protection.”

To address the challenges within this field, ideas need to get out of the lab and into industry to scale up. This event will allow academics to share their ideas and requirements for scale up with industrial partners and for SMEs and large companies to highlight previous advancements in the field using collaboration and share the lessons learned from those.

In addition, the UK government recently publishing their vision for engineering biology, which has set out £2B of funding over the next decade. This event will have representatives from DSIT to discuss how funding will be distributed as well as being part of a Q&A panel at the end of the day.

Attendees

Registration is encouraged from potential users or practitioners of Engineering Biology principles as well as those who are already using such approaches. This includes those who have successfully implemented and scaled engineering approaches to biological systems, those who have progressed but got stuck along the way, and those who are just considering incorporating Engineering Biology within their business and want to find out more!

Please note that this event is targeted at delegates who are active in relevant industry sectors and overall places will be limited. Therefore, SCI reserves the right to request additional information about a delegate’s experience prior to confirming their place.

Programme

Thursday 29 February

10:00: Registration and refreshments
10:30: Welcome and Introduction
David Bott, SCI
10:40: Scaling Engineering Biology with CPI
Matthew McCann, CPI Enterprises
11:00: The NW Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst; Industry Led, Academic Fed
Aline Miller, University of Manchester
11:20: Transforming Beauty: The Synthetic Biology Frontier
Manuel Rios Krauss, Deep Blue Biotech
11:40: Refreshment Break
12:00: A million shades of green: Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for therapeutic applications
Anne Osbourn, John Innes Centre
12:20: HydRegen: taking a biotechnology from academic research to commercialisation
Holly Reeve, HydRegen
12:40: Solving the Big Food 'Trilemma' - From Laboratory to Industry
Alex Nicholls, The Supplant Company
13:00: Lunch
14:00: The UK’s National Vision for Engineering Biology
Mark Renshaw, DSIT
14:20: UKI2S – venture backing for high impact biology based ventures
Oliver Sexton, UKI2S
14:40: Engineering Biology for crop protection
Lauren Ray, Syngenta
15:00: Refreshment break
15:20: Translating academic research in Engineering Biology: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Experiences
Harrison Steel, University of Oxford
15:40: Beyond the Hype: Avoiding techno-economic calamity
Alex Conradie, UCL
16:00: Panel Discussion
Jack Weaver, DSIT; Paul Mines, IBLF; Damian Kelly, Croda; Sara Holland, Potter Clarkson
16:30: Networking wine reception

Sponsorship Information

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Venue and Contact

SCI

14/15 Belgrave Square
London
SW1X 8PS

Conference Team

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Email: conferences@soci.org

Fees

SCI Member - £0
Non-member - £50
Student Member - £0

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Organising committee

Markus Pompejus, BASF
Darren Budd, BASF
Ted Chapman, GSK
Ian Fotheringham, Ingenza
Martin Hayes, Johnson Matthey
Karolina Korzycka, P&G
Neil Parry, Unilever
David Bott, SCI