Alifdalino Sulaiman, PhD, is a faculty member in the Dept. of Food and Process Engineering at the Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Dept. of Food Science and Technology at the Ohio State Univ. His research focuses on innovative thermal and nonthermal processing of food. He obtained his PhD in chemical and materials engineering with a focus on food engineering from the Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand.Read more
Ryan M. Summers, PhD is a Reichhold--Shumaker assistant professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Dept. at the Univ. of Alabama (Email: rmsummers@eng.ua.edu). He completed his postdoctoral research at the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing. His research focuses on metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and biocatalysis for industrial microbiology applications. He earned a BS in biological engineering from Utah State Univ. and a PhD in chemical and biochemical engineering from the Univ. of Iowa.Read more
Mainara Costa-Teixeira earned her BS in chemical engineering in 2017 from Univ. Federal de São João del Rei, MG, Brazil. She is currently pursuing her PhD in chemical engineering at the Univ. of Alabama.Read more
Stephen M. C. Ritchie, PhD, is an associate professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Dept. at the Univ. of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) (Email: sritchie@eng.ua.edu). He has been working in the area of functionalized membranes since 1996. His research group has developed functionalized membranes for acid catalysis, protein fractionation, protein concentration, and affinity adsorption. He also spent two years as a visiting research scientist at Sepro Membranes (Oceanside, CA), where he worked to scale up functionalized membranes,...Read more
Alon Karpol, PhD, is the General Manager of White Dog Labs (WDL) Israel, where he supervises probiotic research and development activities and regulatory aspects of WDL products (Email: akarpol@whitedoglabs.com). He was previously the CEO of Designer Energy, which developed new tools for the hydrolysis of cellulose biomass for second-generation biofuels and biochemicals. He specializes in microbiology of anaerobic microorganisms, specifically fermentation and growth of the thermophilic and mesophilic Clostridia class. Karpol...Read more
The Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference will touch upon a broad range of topics including applications in neurobiology, biochemical, and biomedical research. Abstract Deadline: October 30, 2019
Jack Bittner is the senior product manager for all of the industrial insulation materials produced by Johns Manville. He has been involved in the industrial insulation business for more than 35 years and has experience on both the distribution side of the business, as well as the manufacturing side. Throughout his tenure in industry, he has held roles that included sales rep, branch manager, regional territory manager, product manager, marketing manager, and senior product manager. Bittner is the Commercial and Industrial Committee Chairman for the North American Insulation Manufacturers’...Read more
Kim Melton is the senior technical writer for the Industrial, HVAC, and Mechanical Insulation businesses for Johns Manville. She has five years of experience in the insulation industry and is responsible for developing and executing the educational content strategy for all three businesses at Johns Manville. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Univ. of New Mexico and has coauthored two eBooks for Johns Manville and written and self-published a novel.Read more
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 2:45pm EST to Friday, November 22, 2019, 2:45pm EST
Have you ever wondered how the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing is shaped? Want to be part of it? The PD2M Future of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Workshop will explore the business, regulatory, and technical aspects associated with adopting novel manufacturing platforms to produce medicines...Read more
