Cellexus chair first panel session at Phage Futures Congress 2021
In February, Dr Adam Ostrowski, Technical Application Specialist at Cellexus, chaired a panel session at the Phage Futures Congress 2021.
The panel was titled, “Beyond the Flask: phage amplification at scale” and explored the flask culture bottlenecks being created when scaling up phage amplification from lab scale to industrial scale. Common issues such as flask-to-flask reproducibility, incubator space, number of available flasks and cleaning make scaling up through increasing the number of flasks impossible, and therefore an alternative solution must be found. The panellists went on to discuss the types of fermenters that allow scale-up and the challenges presented by each in process adaptation.
Adam was joined by Jonathan Kotula, Head of Science at Felix Biotechnology, Rodrigo García González, from the Bacteriophage Biology and Microbial Interactions Lab at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Dr. Manuel Garrido, Production Specialist at TechnoPhage, and Dr. Teresa Duarte, Head of CMC at Vector B2B to discuss their challenges, solutions and experiences of upscaling phage production for medical and agrotechnical use.
The panel session was part of a larger exhibition sponsorship from Cellexus, as part of their ongoing commitment to support phage research and the phage community.
“I am honoured to have chaired Cellexus’ first panel session. I was joined by a wonderful selection of panellists, all of whom are leaders in their field with interesting research to share. I look forward to our participation in future events, and further supporting scientists working in the phage industry.” Dr Adam Ostrowski, Technical Application Specialist, Cellexus