Preliminary technical program

12th Ontario‐Quebec  CSChE
Biotechnology Meeting
École Polytechnique, Montréal
June 3‐4, 2010
PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Thursday, June 3
8h00 Registration & Coffee
8h30 Opening remarks & welcome address by the department’s head
Session 1 (Room M-1020, Lassonde Bldg)

8h40 – Chromosomal engineering of the E. coli genome with removable antibiotic markers using an
improved recombineering approach. Karan Sukhija (Waterloo)
9h00 – Implementing a Two-Stage Self-Cycling System for Recombinant Protein Production. Zachary
Storms (McGill)
9h20 – Pan-genome-scale Modeling of Dehalococcoides Metabolism. Ahsan Islam (Toronto)
9h40 – The Effect of Ozone on the Biodegradation of Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) by Mixed Consortia of Pure
Bacterial Cultures. Simone Larcher (McGill)
10h00 – Determination of kinetic parameters for biodegradation of toluene and p-xylene mixtures in a
conventional biofilter. Gorka Gallastegui (Sherbrooke)
10h20 – 10h40 Coffee break (Atrium of Lassonde Bldg)
10h40 – A Kinetic Metabolic Model Describing CHO Cells Energetic Behavior. Atefeh Ghorbani
(Polytechnique)
11h00 – Modeling nutrient uptake in normal and apoptotic cells Saeideh Naderi (Waterloo)
11h20 – Online monitoring of myoblast cell cultures using hyperspectral imaging. Pierre Marc Juneau
(Laval)
11h40 – An approach for the study of energy regulated pathways in Parkinson's disease. Pierre-Olivier
Poliquin (Polytechnique)
12h00 – 13h40 Lunch & Poster Session (Atrium of Lassonde Bldg)
Session 2 (Room M-1020)

13h40 – Designing Green(er) Plasticizers. Hanno Erythropel (McGill)
14h00 – Biogas Purification: H2S Removal using Biofiltration. Liesl Fischer (Waterloo)
14h20 – Environmental Relevance and Risk Assessment of Endogenous Androgens. Usman Khan (McGill)
14h40 – Effect of non-ionic surfactans on methane biofiltration. Balbina Garcia (Sherbrooke)
15h00 – Biodegradation of plasticizers. Craig Kowal (McGill)

15h20 – 15h40 Break (Room M-1020, Lassonde Bldg)

15h40 – PEGylated protein analysis and purification using membrane chromatography. Xiaojiao Shang
(McMaster)
16h00 – Production and Quantification of Virus-Like Particles. Alexandre Laennertz (Polytechnique)
16h20 – Low cost alternative real-time PCR sample preparation for the quantification of baculoviruses.
Steve George (Waterloo)
16h40 – Refolding of proteins using absorptive chromatography. Harpreet Kaur (Western Ontario)
17h00 – 18h00 Poster Session & Cocktail (Atrium of Lassonde Bldg)
18h30 – Dinner buffet
12th Ontario‐Quebec  CSChE
Biotechnology Meeting
École Polytechnique, Montréal
June 3‐4, 2010
Friday, June 4
Session 3 (Room M-1020, Lassonde Bldg)
9h00 – Optimizing treatment performance of Microbial fuel cells by reactor staging. Roberto Pinto
(Polytechnique)
9h20 – Evaluating the use of pyrolysis by-products as substrates for microbial biofuel production. Karen
Schwab (Western Ontario)
9h40 – Metabolic Modeling of Spatial Heterogeneity of Biofilms in Microbial Fuel Cells. Nadeera Jayasinghe
(Toronto)
10h00 – Development of an industrial scale photobioreactor system for the culture of microalgae. Zoe-Lise
Deck-Leger (UQAR)
10h20 – 10h40 Coffee break
10h40 – Flow regulation of Neuropilin-1 and the role of Neuropilin-1 in Mechanotransduction. Espen
Jahnsen (McGill)
11h00 – Characterization of the effects of BMP-9 on osteoclast physiology. David Fong (Sherbrooke)
11h20 – Characterization of Novel Intermediate Exothermic Phenomenon as Tertiary-Structured Protein
Subunit Aggregates. Yeong-Ho Suh (Waterloo)
11h40 – Effect of non-thermal plasmas on mammalian cells and systems. Mathieu Leduc (McGill)

12h00 – Closing Remarks
12th Ontario‐Quebec  CSChE
Biotechnology Meeting
École Polytechnique, Montréal
June 3‐4, 2010
POSTER PRESENTATIONS

P1. Cell Size Distribution Deconvolution. Stanislav Sokolenko (Waterloo)
P2. Application of solid-liquid TPPBs to the production of L-phenylacetylcarbinol from benzaldehyde using Candida
utilis. Tanya Khan (Queen's)
P3. Defined Consortia for the Degradation of Complex Wastes in Microbial Fuel Cells. Nicholas Bourdakos (Toronto)

P4. Biodegradation of Commonly Used Plasticizers With Mixed Cultures. Rodrigo Caris Andrade (McGill)

P5. Semi-industrial scale continuous operation system for culturing microalgae. Pierre St-Onge (UQAR)

P6. Biomass pretreatment and enzyme hydrolysis using ionic liquids for production of biobutanol. Jun Zheng
(Western Ontario)

P7. The Role of Circulating Endothelial Cells during Vascular Development in the Embryo. Sarah Al-Roubaie (McGill)

P8. Bioproduction of cis-(1S,2R)-indandiol, a chiral pharmaceutical intermediate, using a solid-liquid two-phase
partitioning bioreactor (TPPB). Julian Dafoe (Queen's)

P9. Enhancing biocompatibility of biomass hydrolysate for biofuel production. Vivek Nagendra (Western Ontario)

P10. The Extractionm of Succinic Acid from Fermentation Broth using Two-Phase Partitioning Bioreactors. Adam
Hepburn (Queen's)

P11. Genome-scale Modeling of a Clostridial Co-culture Metabolism. Fahimeh Salimi (Toronto)

P12. Enzymatically Crosslinked Gelatin Networks in Alginate Microparticles. Joe Steele (Queen's)
P13. PichCyc: An extensible database for model-based analysis of P. stipitis metabolism. Peter Yan Li (Toronto)
P14. Quantification of collagen and elastin in vascular tissue. Paul Jonak (McGill)

P15. Analysis and comparison of biotreatment of air polluted with ethanol using biofiltration and biotrickling filtration.
Karine Morotti (Sherbooke)

P16. Electrical Enhancement of E. coli for the Production of Biofuels. Vikram Pandit (Toronto)

P17. Genetic modification of Bacillus subtilis: predicting the effects with Flux Balance Analysis. Grigory Kimaev
(Waterloo)

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