Why Attend
Most enzymes found in nature are not suitable for industrial purposes. The field of protein and enzyme engineering is growing at a rapid rate, with competition within industries high and the need to optimize performance greater than ever.
The Protein Engineering Congress is dedicated to uncovering the new and emerging practices, techniques and methods of protein and enzyme engineering across industries.
With industry approaching the design, build, and generation of new biocatalysts and molecules not found in nature, come and learn from our line-up of leading speakers to get an update on the new technologies used in the field of strain and protein engineering.
The breadth of topics discussed at this meeting will focus in on directed evolution, computational protein design, synthetic biology and white biotechnology, and applications of enzyme and protein engineering and industrial biocatalysis in the biopharmaceutical, flavor & fragrance, cosmetics, and food industries.
Attend and you'll be able to:
- Network with key opinion leaders and acquire new customers
- Form collaborations with companies who are engineering proteins and enzymes
- Meet with new technology partners to enhance internal R&D
- Understand the new applications of engineered enzymes and learn how to scale-up to large industrial manufacture
PAST ATTENDEES
You can expect to meet:
Confirmed 2020 Speakers
Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold’s work has been recognised by many awards including the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes. Arnold is co-inventor on over 40 US patents. Throughout her esteemed career and many achievements, Frances Arnold co-founded Gevo, Inc a company to make fuels and chemicals from renewable resources in 2005. She has been on the corporate board of the genomics company Illumina Inc since 2016 and in 2019, she was named to the board of Alphabet Inc., making Arnold the third female director of the Google parent company.
At Caltech, Arnold runs a laboratory that continues to study directed evolution and its applications in environmentally friendly chemical synthesis and green/alternative energy, including the development of highly active enzymes (cellulolytic and biosynthetic enzymes) and microorganisms to convert renewable biomass to fuels and chemicals.
Andrew Buller
Hans Renata
Jared Lewis
Jeremy Steflik
Joelle Pelletier
Justin Siegel
Lori Giver
Jim Lalonde
Maria Lucas
Richard Fox
Rudi Fasan
Ryan Phelan
Stefan Lutz
Todd Hyster
Trish Choudhary
Yasuhisa Asano
John Tucker
Toby Richardson
Christina Boville
David Entwistle
Dr Christian Gruber
Poster Session
Looking to showcase your recent work to the protein engineering community?
Our dedicated poster session is the perfect way to get your research noticed. In order to present a poster at the forum, you need to be registered as a delegate. Please note that there is limited space available and poster space is assigned on a first come first served basis (subject to checks and successful registration). At the congress, your presentation will be displayed in a dedicated poster area. The poster presentation will take place after the lunch break on day one.
Submissions are now open, to apply click here.
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With our extensive marketing experience and strategy, your partnership with Kisaco Research will grant you a sponsorship package that is an extension and enhancement of your current marketing and branding efforts. We value your ROI and will work with you directly on your specific goals and targets – that’s why we take special care in finding the most relevant end-users to attend, so that your financial and resource investment is smartly allocated.
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Download the Agenda
The global enzyme market is predicted to reach over $19 billion by 2025 due to cross-sector implementation of enzyme use, with the bio-pharmaceutical, agriculture, food ingredient, and flavor & fragrance industries accounting for the majority of this increase.
We are bringing together representatives from all industries to discuss how the global enzyme market is progressing and developments in the pipeline.
Download the full 2020 agenda from the Protein Engineering Congress USA:
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Headline Sponsor
GenScript Biotech
Website: https://www.genscript.com/
GenScript Biotech is the world leader in biotechnology reagent service industry. Established in 2002 in New Jersey, United States, the company was the first to commercialize gene synthesis and successfully establish fully integrated capabilities for custom peptide synthesis, protein expression and engineering, custom antibody development and engineering, animal model development, in vitro/in vivo pharmacology as well as a variety of catalogue products, industrial enzymes and microbial reagents.
Senior Event Partner
ATUM
Website: http://www.atum.bio
ProteinGPS is an engineering technology that can modify proteins for real world applications. A small number of variants are tested using high quality assays representative of the functionality, developability and manufacturability properties that your protein will need. Iterative machine learning and testing steps result in an engineered protein that will work where it matters: the real world.
Twist Biosciences
Website: https://www.twistbioscience.com/
At Twist Bioscience, we work in service of customers who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as medicine, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage, by using our synthetic DNA tools, our customers are developing ways to better lives and improve the sustainability of the planet. The faster our customers succeed, the better for all of us, and Twist Bioscience is uniquely positioned to help accelerate their efforts.
Our innovative silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to our customers. Our platform technologies overcome inefficiencies and enable cost-effective, rapid, precise, high-throughput synthesis and sequencing, providing both the quality and quantity of the tools they need to rapidly realize the opportunity ahead. For more information about our products and services, please visit www.twistbioscience.com. Twist Bioscience is on Twitter. Sign up to follow our Twitter feed @TwistBioscience at https://twitter.com/TwistBioscience.
Event Partner
Biocatalysts
Website: http://www.biocatalysts.com/
Our Enzyme Development & Manufacturing business model is cutting edge – no one in the world can do what we do in the way that we do it. People will say that we can’t, but a key function of this site is to let you know that we can. This service has been successfully used for various applications in a number of different industries e.g. food, flavour & fragrance, life science, pharma, fine chemicals and more.
Codexis
Website: http://www.codexis.com
Codexis, Inc. is a leading protein engineering company applying innovative technologies to unlock the power of proteins®.
Since 2002, Codexis’ scientists and bioinformatics experts have worked collaboratively with our clients to advance protein optimization and production, enabling breakthrough developments in pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, biotherapeutics, food & beverage, agriculture and a wide range of other industries.
Guided by proprietary software and bioinformatic systems, Codexis leverages existing knowledge and expertise to improve protein stability, activity, specificity and other properties to enhance clinical function or process performance.
Our proprietary CodeEvolver® technology platform enables the rapid development and production of highly optimized proteins, custom-designed for your application. Codexis’ revolutionary approach to protein engineering starts with an understanding of the desired performance specifications and optimizes a protein specifically to fit these requirements. You get precisely the protein you need for the job you want it to do.
Denovium Inc
Website: http://www.denovium.com
Denovium is an artificial intelligence company pioneering novel AI methods to accelerate innovation in biopharma. Founded by genomics experts, we have spent decades solving complex biological problems and are passionate about creating life-changing AI solutions that will revolutionize the industry’s scientific approach.
Innophore
Website: https://innophore.com/
Innophore uses the patented 3D point cloud technology (so called Catalophores) to identify enzymes for biocatalytic industrial processes.
The search in a proprietary database of active site cavities allows customers to find new enzymes that are otherwise unpredictable.
The platform is a digital search engine for partners in the fields of pharma, chemistry, biotechnology, food, cosmetics, agriculture, textiles or diagnostics.
Artificial intelligence is applied to refine searches and get the most out of our proprietary database.
Proteus by Seqens
Website: https://www.proteus.seqens.com/en/
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Holiday Inn San Jose,1350 N 1st St, San Jose, CA 95112, United States
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