Meeting Program

I^st BELSACT Scientific Meeting (Virtual)
24^th of November 2020

Innovative tools for cell culture and process understanding, control and improvement 

Time  (UTC+1)
9:00-9:30	BELSACT and Event theme Introduction
9:30-10:30	Session 1: PAT (Session Chair: Sebastien Colette, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals)
	UGent – A Continuous and Controlled Pharmaceutical Freeze-Drying Technology for Unit Doses	Thomas De beer
	GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals – PAT for in-line mammalian cell culture follow-up: two case studies from recent vaccine developments at GSK	Patrick Dumas
10:30-11:00	BREAK
11:00-12:00	Session 2: Metabolomics, proteomics and other omics (Session Chair: Sebastien Sart, Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
	University of Liege – The MELD approach for the Next Generation Protein	Gabriel Mazzucchelli
	UGent – MS-based Sars-Cov-2 protein detection in patients (Cov-MS): a fruitful community effort	Maarten Dhaenens
12:00-13:00	BREAK (Lunch)
13:00-13:30	Session 3: Industrialization and Scale up (Session Chair: Isabelle KNOTT, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals)
	Univercells Technologies – Optimizing single-use technologies for scalable and cost-effective viral manufacturing	José Castillo
13:30-14:30	Short Presentations Session to Introduce Posters	Presentations from UGent, Ovizio and Wagenningen University
14:30-15:15	BREAK + Virtual Poster Session
15:15-16:40	Session 4: Process Modeling (Session Chair: Surya Gupta, UGent)
	UCB Pharma S.A. – From product microheterogeneity to homogeneity using integrated modeling methodology and new cell culture component	Bassem Ben Yahia
	UMons – Metabolic pathway analysis and dynamic model derivation	Alain Vande Wouwer
16:15-16:40	Presentation about data integrity and open access Science
	UGent – The many joys of sharing, and some pitfalls too	Lennart Martens
16:40-17:00	Q&A panel with industry and academic leaders focused on data integrity and open access Science (Session Chair: Surya Gupta, UGent)
17:00-17:30	Closing session