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The conference venue was at ‘The Scotts Resort and Spa’, Scottsdale.
Scottsdale is located close to Phoenix, the capital of the State of Arizona.
Scottsdale’s climate is arid. Winters are mild and summers are extreme-
ly hot. In February temperatures were very comfortable between 20 and
25 °C during the day. The beautiful venue and surrounding of the Con-
ference combined with an excellent scientific program created the ideal
atmosphere to encourage the exchange of ideas and thoughts among the
attendees.
The Scientific committee of the conference, headed by Todd Przybycien
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) composed a stri-
king program, balanced between fundamentals and industrial applications.
The scientific program started with a session on modelling and molecular
behavior of hydrophobic interactions. It covered the use of molecular mo-
delling and simulation tools to interpret the adsorption behavior of biologi-
cal macromolecules on separation media or their aggregation behavior in
solution.
The second session focused on adsorptive media design and applications.
Our colleague Egbert Müller (Tosoh Bioscience, Griesheim, Germany) pre-
sented results of acid-base titrations of ion exchange resins and water
sorption measurements of HIC Resins to characterize and evaluate their
mechanisms of interaction. Day one ended with a ‘Rapid Fire Poster Ses-
sion’ chaired and moderated in a very unique and entertaining way by Ron
Bates (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Syracuse, New York). Every presenter got
seven minutes to present their work with a few slides.
The first session of day two was dedicated to high throughput process
development, chaired by Jürgen Hubbuch from KIT (Karlsruhe, Germany).
Ana Azevedo (Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lisbon, Por-
tugal) gave an excellent introduction to using microfluidic approaches for
high-throughput screening of chromatographic conditions. Her co-worker
Ines Pinto presented an example for the miniaturization of chromatogra-
phy: multiplexed screening of different chromatography media and target
molecules was used for the rapid optimization of antibody separations.
10TH HIC/RPC HYDROPHOBIC BIOSEPARATION
CONFERENCE IN SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA
THE HIC/RPC CONFERENCE SERIES, WHICH ALTERNATES BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE USA, PROVIDES A UNIQUE FORUM FOR IN-DEPTH
DISCUSSION OF DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING. THIS YEAR THE TAGLINE OF THE CONFERENCE WAS “ADVANCEMENTS, APPLICATIONS,
AND THEORY IN HYDROPHOBIC BIOPROCESSING - NEW IDEAS CREATE IMPROVED SOLUTIONS FOR HYDROPHOBIC BIOPROCESSING”.
BESIDES ITS TRADITIONAL FOCUS ON APPLICATIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH ON HYDROPHOBICALLY INFLUENCED MODES OF
CHROMATOGRAPHY, THE CONFERENCE ALSO PRESENTED NEWS ON NON-CHROMATOGRAPHIC HYDROPHOBIC PROCESSING METHODS
SUCH AS PRECIPITATION OR CRYSTALLIZATION.
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