NEWS
Two PhD students from the ARC Digital Bioprocess Development Hub have taken out awards at the BioProcessing Network (BPN) Conference 2024 in Brisbane, Australia.
PhD student Nyssa Nair, supervised by Professor Sally Gras and Professor Sandra Kentish from the Department of Chemical Engineering, was awarded best poster for her report on 'Biocapacitance as an online Process Analytical Technology for monitoring and control of online CHO culture performance'.
Taking out the award for best presentation was PhD student Saumya Karunadhika, supervised by Dr Ling Luo, Professor Uwe Aickelin and Dr Bastian Oetomo from the School of Computing and Information Systems, with her talk on 'Estimating Membrane Fouling in Single Pass Tangential Flow Filtration for Enhanced Protein Concentration Predictions'.
Congratulations Nyssa and Saumya!
Sister Act!
Read all about our PhD sisters joining forces to support our research efforts.
Sister act brings different skills to biopharmaceutical manufacturing (unimelb.edu.au)
The ARC Digital Bioprocess Hub featured in
FORGE Magazine 2023 Volume: 8 No. 2
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News 12 Dec 2023
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, 4 Jan 2023
Hub Launch
The ARC Digital Bioprocess Development Hub was launched on 9 June 2023 by University of Melbourne Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor James McCluskey and ARC Acting CEO Dr Richard Johnson with Hub participants and representatives of the sector. This marks the start of a five-year program that will employ 8 postdoctoral research fellows and 3 research assistants and engage over 13 PhDs and more than 50 Masters internship students.
Back row, left to right: Dr Anthony Stowers (CSL Innovation), Kym Baker (Patheon by Thermofisher), James Atherton (Cytiva), Prof Bogdan Gabrys (University of Technology Sydney), Dr Celine Valery (RMIT University), Matthias Zimmermann (CSL Innovation), Front row, left to right: Professor James McCluskey, Professor Sally Gras, Dr Richard Johnson
(Absent: Prof Uwe Aickelin)