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February 2013

Travis Capps

Travis Capps is Vice President of Energy and Gases, Valero Energy Corporation. He received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama in 1994 and his Masters of Business Administration from The University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas in 2003.Read more

Session 1: Regulatory Climate

The current trends and future regulations that affect decisions for and against water reuse and conservation.

James R. Brown

Mr. James R. (Jim) Brown serves as Associate Director of Strategic Planning in the Water Quality Protection Division, EPA Region 6 in Dallas, TX. Jim’s EPA career spans more than 26 years where he has managed a variety of regulatory programs and initiatives. His current work focuses on climate change adaptation and the measurement and assessment of environmental performance in the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act programs.Read more

Keynote Presentation: Barbara Rellahan


Unique Challenges of Quality by Design (QbD) for Biotechnology Products: Lessons Learned from the OBP QbD Pilot Program 

Barbara Rellahan

Dr. Rellahan is a Team Leader in the Division of Monoclonal Antibodies (DMA) in the Office of Biotechnology Products, Office of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CDER/FDA. Dr. Rellahan acts as an expert in the division in relation to issues related to the function and potential activities of immunomodulatory antibodies. Prior to joining the FDA in 1995, Dr. Rellahan was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and a National Research Council Fellow in the Division of Cytokine Biology, CBER/FDA.  Dr. Rellahan earned her Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of...Read more

Renato Baciocchi

Assistant Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” since 2003. He received his degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1990 and earned his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Milan in 1995. After a work experience as process engineer at KTI of Rome, he began his university career as researcher in 1998. Within the scope of his research activities, he has published about 130 papers, among which 45 in international refereed journals and he has acted as coordinator for his...Read more

Christoph Meinrenken

Christoph Meinrenken is Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University’s Earth Institute (working at the Lenfest Center), and adjunct faculty in the department of Earth and Environmental Engineering. Christoph holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University (1996) and PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Germany (2001), where he worked with Bert Sakmann on synaptic transmission. After a subsequent PostDoc position at the Max Planck Institute, and before joining Columbia University in 2009, Christoph worked for 6 years in...Read more

Jingguang Chen

Jingguang Chen’s research interests include surface science studies of metal carbides and bimetallic alloys as novel catalytic materials and synthesis and characterization of thin films for applications in fuel cells, chemical sensors, solar cells, and hard-coating materials. ...Read more

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