Entries by Jenifer Baptiste

Growing Great Minds: all you wanted to know about multi-omics approaches

From 22 – 26 May, the Advanced Course on Advanced Course Integrated Multi-Omics Approaches for Improvement of Industrial Microbes was organized by BioTech Delft. This intensive, activating, one-week course aims at providing fundamental and applied knowledge in the field.

This course offers a coherent overview of current state of the art omics technologies, bridging the different cellular levels, i.e. metabolomics, fluxomics, transcriptomics and proteomics. It will be shown how integrated application of these technologies provides holistic, quantitative insights in cellular physiology.

The program during this week is supported by a course board from the TU Delft, department Biotechnology, Jean-Marc Daran, Martin Pabst, Walter van Gulik and Aljoscha Wahl from Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen, Germany.

This was the second edition of this course and the lectures where provided by speakers from universities and industry; Alexander Wittenberg, Eduard Kerkhoven, Jeroen Demmers, Bas Teusink, Douwe Molenaar, Frank Bruggeman, Koen Verhagen, Barbara Kozak, Richard Zuiderent, Hector Garcia Martin, Marieke von Lindern and Joanna Kirkpatrick.

For a better understanding of the lectures and to stimulate active participation by those attending, this course combined lectures with a practical demonstration on Genome Sequencing Technology by Marcel van den Broek and Djordje Bajic.

The 24 participants in the course are from all over the world and work in an industrial company or at an university.

“The course was very well organized! The topics were all very interesting and the speakers were very enthusiastic.”

The best 5 days to skyrocket your expertness in Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering

From 17 – 21 April, the Advanced Course on Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering was organized by BioTech Delft (Yvonne van Gameren, Jenifer Baptiste). Organic chemists, enzymologists, microbiologists and (bio)chemical engineers from universities, together with invited international experts from industry presented their lectures (Burghard Konig, Rene de Jong, John Woodley, Gerard Muijzer, Sandy Schmidt, Roger Sheldon, Marco Fraaije, Oliver Thum, Martin Schurmann, Alessandra Basso, Mirjam Kabel, Bernard Hauer, Andreas Taglieber).

The program during this week is supported by a course board from the TU Delft, department Biotechnology, Ulf Hanefeld, Caroline Paul, Adrie Straathof, Frank Hollmann. For a better understanding of the lectures and to stimulate active participation by those attending, this intensive one-week course combined lectures with a practical demonstration of PyMOL by Peter-Leon Hagedoorn.

This advanced course aims to familiarize participants with the integrated, interdisciplinary approach required to utilize the catalytic potential of enzymes and whole cells for the production of useful compounds.

The participants (25 on-site and 5 online) in the course are from all over the world and work in the industry or at a university.

“It was nice to have small exercises to solve”

“The lectures were very logical and streamlined and easy to follow”

“I really enjoyed the calculation exercises during the lecture”

Next edition of this course will be held from 8 – 12 April 2024 in Delft, the Netherlands.

Bootcamp in microbial physiology and fermentation technology!

It takes 36 participants, 350 typical Dutch cookies, 8 exercises, 65 phone calls with the online course leader, 21 speakers, 85 banana’s, 9 assistants from the Biotechnology Department, 8 lab tours and 100 bitterballen to achieve a successful advance course. From 18 – 27 January 2023 the Advanced Course on Microbial Physiology and Fermentation Technology […]

The key to modelling and computational methods in bioprocesses

Last week we hosted the Advanced Course on Modelling and Computation for Micro-organisms in Bioprocesses (28 November – 2 December 2022) at PlanetB.io at the DSM site in Delft. During this course 21 international participants from both industry and universities participated, the course was organized hybrid with 17 on-site and 4 online participants. The course […]

A competitive and educational Advanced Course on Bioprocess Design

Last week the Advanced Course on Bioprocess Design took place, hosted in cooperation with PlanetB.io at the DSM site in Delft, the Netherlands. This course is cooperatively organised with graduate school VLAG and was organized hybrid, with 32 on-site and 4 online participants. International participants from industry and universities participated. The course board leaders are […]

Best Design Award Advanced Course Downstream Processing

4 – 8 July 2022 the Advanced Course on Downstream Processing took place! 32 participants participated in the course, involved are Prof. Luuk van der Wielen and Prof. Marcel Ottens, Biotechnology, TU Delft. Besides the course presentations and assignments to solve, there was a case study to win, the case study was organized by PhD’s […]

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

8 – 17 June the 33th Advanced Course on Microbial Physiology and Fermentation Technology took place in Delft, the Netherlands. 34 participants from all over the world participated in this intensive course. Faculty staff of the TU Delft and invited (inter)national experts from other universities and industry offered lectures, exercises and demonstrated experiments. The course […]

First run of the new Multi-Omics course!

Last week we hosted the new Advanced Course Integrated Multi-Omics Approaches for Improvement of Industrial Microbes (1 – 5 Nov. 2021). During this course 13 international participants from both industry and universities participated. Faculty staff, together with invited (inter)national experts from leading universities and industries showed how integrated applications of technologies provide holistic, quantitative insights […]