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Global Proteins Summit
1 June - 2 June 2009
Global Proteins Summit

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Pharmaceutical companies are facing the evolution of drug discovery, hence moving from traditional drugs to biopharmaceuticals. Proteins are used widely in the formulation of these drugs and have potential as therapeutic targets. With the understanding of a protein's structure, it is possible to engineer a target protein that would either inhibit or deactivate the reaction and prevent the disease or destroy it. This requires new, more efficient methods to identify and analyse proteins involved in disease populations, with the aim to discover novel diagnostic tools and required drugs for treatments.

SAE Media Group’s 5th annual Global Protein Summit aims to cover needs and developments within the industry. This is an excellent opportunity to network and learn about new developments from leaders in Protein Expression, Functional analysis and Purification.

  • Ian Hunt, Associate Director, Protein Production, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
  • Tomas Lundqvist, Director, Cell Protein and Structural Sciences, AstraZeneca

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Welcome and Introduction

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9:10

What is the identity of challenging targets and common issues

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9:40

What are the potential solutions and best practice to express difficult proteins

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10:20

Morning Coffee

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10:50

Fragment libraries as solutions to challenging proteins

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11:30

Protein:protein interactions challenges and solutions

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12:30

Close of the Workshop

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's opening remarks

Ian Hunt

Ian Hunt, Group Leader, Novartis

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9:10

FROM DNA TO PROTEIN ON A FULLY AUTOMATED PLATFORM

Lori Jennings

Lori Jennings, Research Investigator II, Protein Sciences, Genomics Institute Of The Novartis Research Foundation

 
  •  Protein Expression and Purification Platform (PEPP): Custom engineered robotics to support protein production for research and drug discovery
  •  Providing automated cell culture, transfection/infection, harvest and purification at a scale of 35-mL per sample
  •  Secreted, intracellular, and membrane proteins can be harvested and purified
  •  PEPP system enables (i) screening large numbers of constructs, (ii) screening constructs in multi-matrix conditions for expression-purification, and (iii) small scale protein production for HTP bioassays
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    9:50

    SCLEROSTIN: A POTENTIAL NEW TARGET FOR TREATING LOW BONE MASS DISORDERS

    Alistair Henry

    Alistair Henry, Senior Principal Scientist, UCB-Celltech

  • Protein production
  • Proteins Structure solution
  •  Antibody generation and selection
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    EFFICIENT STRATEGIES FOR PROCESS DEVELOPMENT AND PROTEIN PRODUCTION FOR DIAGNOSIS SCREENING AND THERAPEUTICAL APPLICATIONS

    Sabrina Guillemer

    Sabrina Guillemer, Expression Group Leader, Proteus

  • Cell based and cell-free multi host expression profiling
  • Flexible production and purification strategies
  • Process development
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    11:40

    OPTIMISING EXPRESSION OF MAMMALIAN PROTEINS FOR INTERACTION STUDIES

    Michael Dyson

    Michael Dyson, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge

  • Rational and combinatorial protein engineering methods to improve the expression of large multi-domain proteins in E. coli and mammalian cells
  • Multiplexing expression in HEK293E cells
  • Generation of a large murine cell-surface receptor ectodomain expression library and its use for both antibody production and discovery of novel receptor interactions
  • Methods to convert single chain antibodies to full IgG antibodies
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    12:20

    Networking lunch

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    13:50

    PROTEIN EXPRESSION USING A NOVEL SUMO SYSTEM

    Jeffrey Marblestone

    Jeffrey Marblestone, Senior Scientist, Progenra

  • Universal Platform for Protein Expression in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
  • Exploring SUMO; from an essential modification in the cell to the advancement of protein production in the lab
  • SUMO fusion tags enhance protein expression in prokaryotic cells
  • Applications of engineered SUMO (SUMOstar) to enhance eukaryotic protein expression
  • Universal SUMO system, Ligation Independent Cloning for Rapid Expression in E. coli, yeast, Insect and Mammalian Cells
  • Therapeutic protein expression and superiority of SUMO system
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    14:30

    MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS – FROM GENE TO STRUCTURE

    Peter Henderson

    Peter Henderson, Coordinator, European Drug Initiative for Ion Channels and Transporters, University of Leeds

  • Bacterial homologues of human transport proteins
  • Cloning, expression and purification
  • Assessing activities of purified proteins
  • Stability trials
  • Recent structures determined by X-ray crystallography
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    15:10

    Afternoon tea

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    15:40

    PROTEINS AS TARGETS & THERAPEUTICS:

    Mark Swindells

    Mark Swindells, Managing Director, Ebisu

  • Chemogenomics research
  • GPCR targets 
  • Monoclonal Antibody therapeutics
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    16:20

    CONCEPT TO CLINIC WITH RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY-BASED FUSION PROTEINS

    Kerry Chester

    Kerry Chester, Professor, UCL Cancer Institute

  • Design criteria for scFv-based cancer treatments
  • Cancer imaging and therapy with scFvs, fusion proteins and nanoparticles.
  • GMP production of engineered antibody fragments in a research institute
  • Bench-to-bedside case study with a multifunctional antibody-enzyme fusion protein for targeted cancer therapy

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    17:00

    Chairman’s closing remarks and close of day one

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    8:30

    Registrations & Cofee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Trevor Wilkinson

    Trevor Wilkinson, Head of Protein Sciences, Medimmune Cambridge

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    9:10

    DISCOVERING BIOLOGICAL THERAPEUTICS: ADVANCING THE DRUG DISCOVERY PROCESS FOR OPTIMAL LEAD SELECTION

    Trevor Wilkinson

    Trevor Wilkinson, Head of Protein Sciences, Medimmune Cambridge

  • Generating molecular targets (antigens)
  • Exploring the combined use of phage display and high throughput assay technologies to identify antibodies
  • Engineering pM affinity antibodies by the use of phage and ribosome display
  • Examining case studies of engineering potential antibody therapeutics
  • Sharing insights into the structural basis of antibody-antigen recognition derived from co-crystal structures
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    9:50

    MULTI-PARALLEL RECOMBINANT PROTEIN PRODUCTION

    Stephen Hammond

    Stephen Hammond, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Biomedical Foundation

  • Matching productive parallel vectors, to appropriate expression systems
  • How to use these in parallel to produce high fidelity recombinant proteins within the shortest time
  • Rapid identification of appropriate purification strategies: Small, medium and large scale
  • Parallel expressions of multiple proteins – Challenges 
  • Validation strategies and solutions
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF PROTEIN PRODUCTION

    Ian Hunt

    Ian Hunt, Group Leader, Novartis

  • Instrumentation to expedite identification of soluble proteins - multi-parallel expression profiling, fast or fiction
  • Tricks of the trade - a review of technologies and methodologies that enhance insect mediated baculovirus and E.coli protein expression
  • Looking forward – what are the challenges and trends facing protein sciences?
  • The presentation will use a series of case studies from a number of different drug targets to illustrate the impact of the various approaches in expediting protein delivery for pharma/biotech discovery
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    11:40

    RATIONAL DESIGN OF ANTIBODIES FOR THE INHIBITION OF GASTRIN ACTIVITY IN PANCREATIC CANCER

    Ignacio Casal

    Ignacio Casal, Biotechnology Programme Director and Head of the Protein Technology Unit, CIB.CSIC

  • Gastrin and derivatives are becoming important targets for immunotherapy of pancreatic, gastric and colorectal tumors
  • We have combined different strategies to generate a wide array of human and mouse antibodies against gastrin.
  •  Using scFvs to delineate the gastrin epitopes and their functional significance for the blocking of gastrin trophic effects on tumoral cells
  •  Combining CDR3 walking randomisation and “in silico” rational design-based to enhance the affinity of the human anti-gastrin scFvs expressed in E.coli
  • Potential benefits of the expression of scFv antibodies in E.coli for therapeutic design will be discussed
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    12:20

    Networking lunch

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    13:50

    PROTEIN PRODUCTION IN INDUSTRY

    Richard Bazin

    Richard Bazin, Senior Principle Scientist, Pfizer

  • Proteins for crystallisation
  • Membrane proteins
  • Production and immobilisation of proteins for SPR measurements
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    APPLICATION OF THE CELL-FREE PROTEIN PRODUCTION SYSTEM TO GENOME-WIDE SCREENING FOR MAPPING PROTEIN NETWORKS AND FOR DISCOVERING BIOMARKERS AND DRUGS

    Yaeta Endo

    Yaeta Endo, Executive Director, Ehime University

  • Substrate screening of protein kinases and proteases
  • Screening of autoantigens for biomarker discovery
  • Discovery of malaria vaccine candidates
  • Production and assay of HIV proteases from mutant genes of patients for selecting effective drugs
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    15:10

    Afternoon tea

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    SAFETY AND IMMUNOGENICITY OF PROTEINS

    Tim Jones

    Tim Jones, Research Director, Antitope

  • Designing therapeutic drugs with reduced immunogenicity
  • Explanation of immunogenicity risk factors
  • The importance of T cell epitopes in driving immunogenicity
  • Accurate detection of T cell epitopes using in vivo T cell assays
  • Strategies to re-engineer proteins as a way of reducing immunogenicity
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    HIGH YIELD PRODUCTION OF AN E.coli I EXPRESSED SOLUBLE Fc RECEPTOR WITH BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY

    Peter Sondermann

    Peter Sondermann, CSO, SuppreMol

    <ul> <li><font size="1">Development of a first-in-class therapeutic for the treatment of autoimmune diseases</font></li> <li><font size="1">Soluble Fc Receptors (sFcRs)&nbsp;as immune modulating proteins with high therapeutic potential</font></li> <li><font size="1">Expression of sFcRs in E.coli as inclusion bodies and subsequent efficient refolding&nbsp;to allow&nbsp;production in high yields</font></li> <li><font size="1">Ligand binding properties of the refolded material is comparable to that of mammalian expressed versions</font></li> <li><font size="1">Demonstrating biological activity of sFcRs in several murine models of human autoimmune diseases</font></li> </ul>

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    17:00

    Chairman’s closing remarks and close of conference

    Workshops

    Difficult to Express Proteins

    Difficult to Express Proteins

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