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Global Protein Summit
2 June - 3 June 2008
Global Protein Summit

With the ever-expanding therapeutic market, research and development is fundamental for improving current treatments and the design of protein based drugs of the future. With the variety of protein expression systems rapidly evolving, there is more pressure to harvest larger, purer quantities of product. Furthermore, a vast number of biomarker discovery studies have recently been embarked upon, requiring new, more efficient methods to identify and analyse proteins involved in disease populations with the aim to discover novel diagnostic tools and treatments.

SAE Media Group’s 4th annual Global Protein Summit is designed to meet the needs of the industry. It is an excellent opportunity to hear about the latest developments from leaders in the field, bringing together experts in protein expression, purification, identification and functional analysis. 

This event will bring together Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads and leading researchers from the pharmaceutical industry to share their knowledge and discuss the critical issues surrounding the development of innovative protein drug compounds. It’s a must attend event for all those involved in protein research and development.



Critical challenges that will be addressed:
  • GENE TO PROTEIN: Analyse the challenges with protein engineering and expression
  • PROTEOMICS: Gain an insight into the role of biomarkers and the recent advances in this area
  • PROTEIN PRODUCTION: Understand multi-parallel and high throughput systems
  • EXPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES: Learn about novel technologies that are being developed for a variety of compounds
  • PURIFICATION & ANALYSIS: Discuss how to effectively analyse, characterise and purify protein material



Exclusive presentations from industry experts including:

  • Paul Ramage, Senior Research Investigator 1, CPC/Protease Platform, Novartis Pharma AG
  • Mark McAlister, Associate Director, Protein Engineering, Global Structural Chemistry, AstraZeneca
  • Florian Wurm, Professor of Biotechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • Joseph Siemiatkoski, Senior Scientist, Analytical Development, Biogen Idec
  • Indresh Srivastava, Head of Protein Biology, Protein Biology, Novartis
  • Bernardo Perez-Ramirez, Scientific Director, Bioformulations Development, Genzyme Corporation
  • Mark Abbott, Principal Scientist, Respiratory and Inflammation, AstraZeneca
  • Renos Savva, Senior Research Fellow, School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • Kent Bondensgaard, Research Scientist, Novo Nordisk
  • Ingrid Marchal-Gerez, Business Development Manager, Proteus
  • Ian Hunt, Group leader, Protein Structure Unit, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
  • Linda King, Director, Oxford Expression Technologies Ltd
  • Ignacio Casal, Biotechnology Programme Director and Head of the Protein Technology Unit, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)
  • Balwant Patel, Director Market Development, Cloning and Protein Expression Buisness Unit, Invitrogen
  • Gisela Schnapp, Principal Scientist, Lead Discovery, Strutural Research Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma
  • Judit Nagy, Proteomics Facility Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London
  • Laurent Fourage, Project Leader, Biotechnology, Proteus
  • Nina Albrecht, Manager Scientific Sales, Geneart
  • Peter Hemmerich, Research Associate, FLI Leibniz Institute for Age Research
  • W. Antoni Kudlicki, Research Fellow, R&D, Invitrogen




You will benefit from attending this event if you are:

A Vice President, Director or Head of:

  • Gene expression
  • Biochemistry
  • Proteomics
  • Product Safety        
  • Clinical / Medical Affairs 
  • Protein expression
  • Protein purification
  • Scientific Affairs
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Drug Surveillance
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Pharmacokinetics



  • Last years’ delegates were from:

    • Pfizer
    • GlaxoSAE Media GroupthKline
    • Bayer-Schering Pharma            
    • Roche Products Ltd
    • Merck Research Labs
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    Conference agenda

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    High-throughput production of eukaryotic proteins for X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy structure determination

    Ronnie  Frederick

    Ronnie Frederick, Protein Production Team Leader , Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin

  • Expression vector design and E.coli Auto-induction system for protein production
  • Automated analysis of Protein and Domain production (Caliper LC90)
  • Meso- and Small-scale Semi-automated Protein purification (Maxwell 16 system)
  • Time and cost considerations
  • Future developments in Eukaryotic Protein production
  • Conclusion
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    Developing the bacterial cell factory: Quiescent E. coli for recombinant protein expression

    David Summers

    David Summers, Head of Department, Cambridge University

  • Stability functions of bacterial multicopy plasmids
  • Plasmids that control the bacterial cell cycle
  • Exploiting cell cycle control to achieve bacterial quiescence
  • Protein expression in quiescent cells
  • Reinventing the system; second generation quiescent cells
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Optimised pipeline purification of over-expressed eukaryotic proteins

    Karl Nichols

    Karl Nichols, Research Specialist, University of Wisconsin

  • Overview of the Centre For Eukaryotic Structural Genomics’ Purification Process
  • Quality Control of the Purification Process
  • Successes of the Purification Process
  • Discussion of Purification Failures
  • Salvage Pathways: Attempting to Rescue the Failures
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    Development and application of high throughput methods for structural & functional studies of membrane proteins

    Vincent Postis

    Vincent Postis, Research Fellow, University Of Leeds

  • Vector design and E. coli Auto-induction system
  • Automated analysis of membrane protein and soluble domain production
  • High-throughput membrane protein solubilisation
  • High-throughput protein stability assessment
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    12:30

    Networking Lunch

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    13:30

    Furthering membrane protein structural and functional studies using cell-free expression technologies

    Michael Goren

    Michael Goren, Research Assistant, University Of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Limitations of in vivo expression: Cell-Free vs Cell-Based 
  • Cell-free expression for NMR structural analysis of membrane Proteins
  • Direct cell-free incorporation into liposomes and activity of Membrane Proteins
  • In vitro reconstitution of membrane protein systems
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    HT-biochemical annotation of genetic information using the wheat germ cell-free system

    Yaeta Endo

    Yaeta Endo, Executive Director, Ehime University

  • The wheat gem cell-free protein production system
  • Applications to genome-wide functional and structural analyses
  • Application to difficult protein expression (multi-subunit proteins, membrane proteins)
  • New robotic system for the massive protein production
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    Afternoon Coffee

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    15:30

    High-throughput crystallomics: Translating technology from the protein structural initiative to the biomedical research community

    Craig Bingman

    Craig Bingman, Section Leader, Crystallography and Bioinformatics, University Of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Architectural criteria for appropriate crystallomics automation
  • CESG’s extensible platform
  • Review of crystallomics results from the protein structural initiative
  • Additive screening results
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    16:15

    Discussion & Questions – Review of the Session

    Ronnie  Frederick

    Ronnie Frederick, Protein Production Team Leader , Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, University of Wisconsin

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    17:00

    Close of Executive Briefing

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Bernardo Perez-Ramirez

    Bernardo Perez-Ramirez, Scientific Director, BioFormulations Development, Genzyme Corporation

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    9:10

    GENE SYNTHESIS IN PROTEIN ENGINEERING

    Mark McAlister

    Mark McAlister, Associate Director, Protein Engineering, Global Structural Chemistry, AstraZeneca

  • The role of protein engineering
  • Conventional molecular biology vs. gene synthesis
  • Case studies
  • Future directions
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    USE OF LABCHIP 90 IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF A RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEIN

    Joseph Siemiatkoski

    Joseph Siemiatkoski, Senior Scientist, Biogen Idec

  • Method development timelines can be compressed using automation
  • Speed of analysis and high throughput are crucial for development efforts
  • Wide linear range simplifies operability and data analysis
  • For quantitation, selectivity of separation has benefits over traditional approaches
  • Data quality is improved by enabling replicate analysis – statistically justified purity data
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    STRUCTURE-FUNCTION STUDIES OF INTERLEUKIN-21

    Kent Bondensgaard

    Kent Bondensgaard, Research Scientist, Novo Nordisk

  • 3D structure of  IL-21
  • Conformational heterogeneity
  • Receptor interactions
  • Design of superpotent IL-21 analogues
  • Mechanisms for increased potency by cytokine analogues
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    11:40

    EXCELLENCE IN DNA ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING

    Nina Albrecht

    Nina Albrecht, Manager, Geneart AG

  • Expression optimisation – background, rationales and GENEART philosophy
  • The art of optimising genes: a multi-parameter challenge
  • Case studies of different expression systems pre and post optimisation
  • DNA engineering and processing workflow
  • Improved proteins by directed evolution
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    12:20

    PROTEIN CHARACTERISATION

    Indresh Srivastava

    Indresh Srivastava, Head of Protein Biology, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics

  • Select an appropriate expression systems
  • Strategies for selecting an appropriate structure for clinical evaluation
  • Production of selected vaccine
  • Purification of vaccine immunogen
  • Characterization of the vaccine using state of the art techniques for determining the conformation; glycosylation, epitope exposure, binding affinity, and stability
  • Clinical evaluation of vaccines
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    13:00

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    COMBINATORIAL DOMAIN HUNTING IN MOSAIC MODE

    Renos Savva

    Renos Savva, Senior Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London

  • The provision of soluble, folded and stable recombinant protein
  • Combinatorial Domain Hunting (CDH) technology
  • Assessing time and resource effective approaches to expression construct design
  • Is it necessary to access bioinformatics analysis in construct making?
  • Provision of previously recombinantly intractable/ insoluble proteins
  • The isolation of protein-protein complexes in soluble, stable recombinant arrangements
  • Optimising recombinant expression for structure and drug design
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    14:40

    CASE STUDY: MULTI-PARALLEL PROTEIN PRODUCTION

    Ian Hunt

    Ian Hunt, Group Leader, Novartis

  • Utility of  multi-parallel E. coli baculovirus mediated protein expression strategies
  • Current bottlenecks within the process
  • Potential new and enabling technologies
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    15:20

    EXPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES

    Mark Abbott

    Mark Abbott, Principal Scientist, Respiratory and Inflammation, AstraZeneca

  • Multi-domain proteins
  • Methods to handle and analyse different post translational modifications
  • Mammalian expression with many different ‘flavours’
  • Easy access to mammalian, insect and E.coli expression systems essential for success
  • Different expression systems for different uses
  • Case studies of different protein families
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    16:00

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:30

    PROTEIN SEPARATION AND BIOMARKER DISCOVERY USING LABEL FREE INTRINSIC IMAGING

    Judit Nagy

    Judit Nagy, Proteomics Research Scientist, Imperial College London

  • Optimising the process
  • Methods used
  • Validation of marker candidates
  • Proteomic technologies  to find novel markers
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    17:10

    CELL-FREE EXPRESSION OF INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEINS USING DISCOIDAL MEMBRANES

    W. Antoni Kudlicki

    W. Antoni Kudlicki, Research Fellow, R&D, Invitrogen

  • Discoidal membranes (NLPs)
  • NLP-based expression and solubilisation of membrane proteins
  • Cell-free production of medically relevant NLP-MP complexes using Expressway
  • Different strategies for complex formation
  • Functional analysis and ligand displacement assay for selected membrane protein targets
  • Characterisation of MP-NLP complexes
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    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

    Bernardo Perez-Ramirez

    Bernardo Perez-Ramirez, Scientific Director, BioFormulations Development, Genzyme Corporation

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    18:00

    Drinks Reception sponsored by Caliper LifeSciences

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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

    ASSESSING THE SOLUTION BEHAVIOR OF THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS

    Bernardo Perez-Ramirez

    Bernardo Perez-Ramirez, Scientific Director, BioFormulations Development, Genzyme Corporation

  • Biophysical approaches to pre-formulation
  • Maximizing data out put with minimal amounts of protein 
  • Global analysis and thermodynamic assessment
  • Choosing proper stress conditions
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    9:50

    PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN INSECT CELLS

    Linda King

    Linda King, Director, Oxford Expression Technologies Ltd

  • New vectors for multi-parallel protein production
  • Increasing yields and quality of difficult to express proteins
  • Rapid titration of baculovirus expression vectors
  • Micro scale and large scale protein production
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    A NOVARTIS CASE STUDY: KINASE AND PROTEASE PREPARATION

    Paul Ramage

    Paul Ramage, Senior Research Investigator 1, CPC/Protease Platform, Novartis Pharma AG

  • Overview/organisation
  • Problems faced
  • Solutions
  • Specific examples
  • Future directions
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    11:40

    ENGINEERING ENHANCED THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS

  • Protein engineering technologies
  • Examples
  • Optimisation of therapeutic proteins and antibodies
  • Basis of protein immunogenicity
  • Early assessment of protein immunogenicity
  • Immunogenicity engineering
  • Ingrid Marchal-Gerez

    Ingrid Marchal-Gerez, Business Development Manager, Proteus

    Laurent Fourage

    Laurent Fourage, Project Leader, Biotechnology, Proteus

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    12:20

    NOVEL TOOLS FOR HIGHER THROUGHPUT AND HIGHER PROTEIN YIELD IN MAMMALIAN AND INSECT CELLS

    Balwant Patel

    Balwant Patel, Director, Market Development, Cloning and Protein Expression Buisness Unit, Invitrogen

  • Multi-site Gateway® Pro, simultaneous cloning of up to four gene fragments into any Gateway® expression vector.
  • pFastBac™ TOPO and BaculoDirect™ systems for rapid high throughput insect expression
  • FreeStyle™ MAX System, a gram of protein from 293 or CHO cells in just one week
  • High efficiency gene delivery into almost impossible to transfect cell types with ViraPower HiPerformTM Lentivirus Expression System
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    13:00

    Networking Lunch

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    LARGE SCALE PROTEIN PRODUCTION

    Florian Wurm

    Florian Wurm, Professor of Biotechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

  • Multi-gram per litres - how to achieve this
  • DNA to process in the shortest time
  • Genetics and the biology of large scale manufacturing
  • Transient gene expression – the innovative new approach
  • Disposables at large scale?
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    HIGH THROUGH PUT PROTEIN PURIFICATION

    Gisela  Schnapp

    Gisela Schnapp, Principal Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim

  • Expression screening with small amount of protein
  • High through put protein purification methods for crystallisation trials
  • protein characterisation
  • Purity versus yield
  • Time and cost implications
  • Crystallisation methods
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    PROTEOMICS-BASED VALIDATION OF GENOMIC DATA

    Ignacio Casal

    Ignacio Casal, Biotechnology Programme Director and Head of the Protein Technology Unit, CNIO

  • Parallel expression of multiple proteins
  • Evaluation of different approaches for antibody production
  • Phage display and PrEST technology
  • Validation strategies for tumoral biomarkers
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    Afternoon Coffee

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    16:30

    STRUCTURE DETERMINATION OF PROTEIN-LIGAND COMPLEXES

    Rick Davies

    Rick Davies, Team Leader, AstraZeneca

  • Co-expression with ligands
  • Surface mutagenesis
  • Construct design
  • Hybridisation
  • Use of orthologues
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    CHECKPOINT RESEARCH IN MITOSIS

    Peter Hemmerich

    Peter Hemmerich, Research Associate, FLI Leibniz Institute for Age Research

  • Effective cloning
  • In vivo fluorescence techniques (FRAP, FCS, FCCS, FRET, FLIM)
  • Structural architecture of the kinetochore
  • Dynamics of kinetochore proteins
  • Exemplary approach – its application to other cellular machineries
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    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

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