Structural stability of plasmids

Kristala Jones Prather, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

“Rational engineering of E. coli strains and vectors for improved manufacturing of plasmid biopharmaceuticals”

Manufacturing of plasmid vectors

João Queiroz, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

Stefan Fischer-Frühholz, Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH, Goettingen, Germany

“Application of new hydrophobic phenyl membrane adsorbers to plasmid purification”

João Carlos Marcos, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

DNA vaccine prototyping

Jean Rodgers from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Jorge Atouguia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal

Miguel Fevereiro, Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária (LNIV), Lisbon, Portugal

Marcelo Silva, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal

Satyanarayana Somavarapu, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK

Immobilization, handling and detection of DNA in microchips

João Pedro Conde, INESC - Microsystems and Nanotechnologies, Lisbon, Portugal

Virginia Chu, INESC - Microsystems and Nanotechnologies, Lisbon, Portugal