Biotechnet Meet-Up 2024 Verified listing

Biotechnet is happy to present its 2nd annual Meet-Up on January 18, 2024 at the UniS Campus in Bern.

In the morning, Biotechnet's thematic platforms will present their progress and iniatives. In the afternoon, scientific keynote speakers and an industry panel will provide insights on this year's theme.

We invite industrial and environmental biotechs to connect with researchers from universities of applied sciences, basic universities and other research organizations. Also welcome are public and private researchers from the biopharma and medtech sectors looking to reduce their plastic and carbon footprint in the lab.

Theme 2024: Sustainability in Biotech

We will address topics such as:

• Biocatalysis
• Bioresources
• Bioenergy
• Bioremediation
• Circular economy
• Biodegradable lab wares and resterilisation
• Reusable materials and processes in biomanufacturing
• Tackling plastic waste in diagnostics
• Continuing education in sustainable biotech

Cost: The event is free and registration is required.

Location: Uni S campus in Bern, conveniently located next to the train station.

Agenda

9.00 Welcome - Laura Suter-Dick, President, Biotechnet

Biotechnet Platform updates, including work on sustainability

• 9.15   Tissue Engineering for Drug Development – Challenges in labwares - Markus Rimann
• 9.30   Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine - Andreina Schoeberlein, Amiq Gazdhar
• 9.45  In Vitro Diagnostics – Tackling plastic waste - Samantha Paoletti
• 10.00  Data science – Conference 2024
• 10.15 Antibiotics – Indo-Swiss AMR innovation dialogue, responsible use - Markus Seeger

10.30 Coffee break

• 11.00 Training – Palermo Summer School, continuing ed in sustainability - Jack Rohrer
• 11.15 Biocatalysis – CCBIO event and projects - Rebecca Buller
• 11.30   Biomanufacturing – Higher yields and materials resuse - Cedric Schirmer
• 11.45   Bioresource technologies – BioRemid event, EU projects - Laura Suter-Dick on behalf of Philippe Corvini, FHNW
• 12.00   HES-SO and FHNW bioeconomy projects - Manfred Zinn, Wolfgang Riedl

12.15 Lunch

Keynote Talks

• 13.30 ETH Zürich Green Labs Initiative. Sebastian Kahlert, Sustainability Manager, ETH Zürich; Elisa Dultz, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich; Franziska Brändle, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich.
• 14.00  Green Synthetic Strategies and Flow Biocatalysis. Francesca Paradisi, Group Leader, University of Bern.

Panel Discussion

14.30   Three industry representatives discuss sustainability philosophies and initiatives in their organization

• Samantha Paoletti, CSEM
• Martin Held, CCLoop
• Jan Lucht, Science Industries

15.30   IP Outlook / Technology landscape for sustainable biotech

• Christian Moser-Nikles, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property

16.00   Apéro and networking

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