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Provisional Conference Program

Wednesday 8th June 2005

09.25-09.30
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Conference Co-Chairs:
Ralph Bock (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany)
Julian Ma (St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK)

SESSION 1:
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Moderator: Ralph Bock (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany)

09.30-10.00
Opening Keynote Lecture:
‘Plant-based pharmaceuticals where they are needed most: prospects for developing countries’
Ed Rybicki (University of Capetown, South Africa)

10.00-10.30
‘What are vaccine manufacturing bottlenecks and where could plant systems contribute?’
Vidadi Yusibov (Fraunhofer USA, Newark, Delaware, USA)

10.30-11.00
Coffee Break & Poster Set Up

11.00-11.30
‘Carriers, cytokines and co-delivery: Plant-based vaccine strategies’
Carole Cramer (Arkansas State University, USA)

11.30-12.00
‘Proteins for medical use produced in transgenic plants: European regulatory framework’
Alexis Nolte (Quality of Medicines, European Medicines Agency, EMEA, London, UK)

12.00-13.00
Poster Session

13.00-14.00
Lunch Break

SESSION 2:
MANUFACTURING/CROP SPECIES
Moderator: To be confirmed

14.00-14.30
‘Downstream process quality assurance: cGMP considerations’
Barry R. Holtz (Holtz BioPharma Consulting, USA)

14.30-14.50
‘Cowpea mosaic virus-based systems for the production of antigens and antibodies in plants’
G.P. Lomonossoff, M.C. Canizares, W. Monger, L. Liu, E. Tsakiris, C. Porta, L. Nicholson (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)

14.50-15.10
‘The quest for the perfect in-field plant system’
Martin Wilhelm and Bjorn Orvar (ORF Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland)

15.10-15.30
‘Plant-factories: Updated status’
Francois Arcand (Society for Moleculture/ERA Plantech, Barcelona, Spain)

15.30-15.45
‘Protein bodies: Accumulation and recovery of recombinant proteins’
Dolors Ludevid (CSIC/ERA Plantech, Barcelona, Spain)

15.45-16.15
Tea Break & Posters

16.15-16.45
Keynote Lecture:
‘Drugs from plants: taking the hurdles towards application’
Friedrich Bischoff (Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharma GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany)

SESSION 3:
MUCOSAL IMMUNITY & DELIVERY
Moderator: John D. Clements (Tulane University, New Orleans, USA)

16.45-17.15
Keynote Lecture:
‘Mucosal adjuvants: ADP-ribosylating adjuavnts and TLR agonists – their mechanisms and potential synergistic effects’
John D. Clements (Tulane University, New Orleans, USA)

17.15-17.30
‘Humoral immunity induced by CTB-P1 for the prevention of HIV-1 mucosal transmission/infection’
N. Matoba A. Magerus, B.C. Geyer, A. Alfsen, C.J. Arntzen, M. Bomsel, T.S. Mor (Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA)

17.30-17.45
‘Plant-derived hepatitis B core particle as platform for mucosal delivery and presentation of foreign epitopes’
Z. Huang, L. Santi, K. Gorlewski, C.J. Arntzen and H.S. Mason (Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA)

17.45-18.15
‘Mucosal carrier technology for targeted delivery of antigens produced in plants’
D. Florack, C. Matos and D. Bosch (Plant Research International BV, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

18.15-18.30
‘Is oral tolerance the Achilles heel of oral vaccination?’
Yasmin Thanavala (Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA)

18.30:
Scenic Prague Tram Ride