Corning Cell Culture Upscaling Workshop

Corning 2025 Cell Culture Upscaling Workshop in collaboration with Biotech Training Facility is your opportunity to:

  • Deeply explore different Corning bioprocess platforms for upscaling cell culture from R&D to production.
  • Gain hands-on experience on the Corning bioprocess vessels.
  • Learn best practices and tips when manipulating Corning’s cell culture vessels.
  • Meet our Field Application Scientist team to exchange technical and scientific insights on your project and processes.
  • Learn how to scale-up, scale-out, and reduce contamination risk by integrating a closed system approach.
  • Meet your peers from academic, pharma, and biotech.
  • Get a Corning® HYPERFlask® vessel sample to test in your lab.

Speakers

Mikael Garcia

Mikael Garcia, Ph.D.

Senior Field Application Scientist, Corning

 

Mikael has over 16 years of experience in the biomedical research and innovation sector. He earned his PhD in Biology via a CIFRE fellowship, a collaboration between the University of Bordeaux and Cytoo, a biotech company that specializes in creating physiologically relevant cellular models and assays for High Content Screening.

 

After a two-year postdoctoral fellow at IINS in Bordeaux, Mikael moved to Poietis, a biotech firm renowned for developing and manufacturing human tissues using 4D bioprinting. Over the course of six years, he led Industrial and European projects to develop alternative human tissue models via 3D Bioprinting, which included Hair Follicle, Skin, Brain, Pancreas, and more.

 

In 2021, Mikael joined Corning as a Field Application Scientist (FAS), where he concentrates on the company's bioprocess portfolio.

Evert-Jan Breman

Evert-Jan Breman

Production pharmacist, UMC Utrecht

 

Evert-Jan Breman, Production Pharmacist at UMC Utrecht, specialized in the development of new ATMPs. Focused on current clinical trials and the development of new trials involving MSCs. Currently working on the product development of MSCs, transitioning from CellSTACKs to HYPERStacks.

Agenda

TimeSessionPresenter/Description
9:30 - 10:00Welcome coffee 
10:00 - 10:05IntroductionConstanza Curotto
10:05 - 10:25Current Clinical Application of MSCs Produced Using CellSTACKS at UMC Utrecht and the Transition to HYPERStacksEvert-Jan Breman
10:25 - 10:40Overview of upscaling considerations and solutionsMikael Garcia, Ph.D.
10:40 - 10:50Room change 
Rotation sessions

11:00 - 12:00 

 

13:40 - 14:40

 

14:50 - 15:50

HYPER technologyHow to manipulate the Corning HYPERFlask® and HYPERStack® vessels
12:00 - 13:30Lunch Break and facilities tour 
Rotation sessions

11:00 - 12:00 

 

13:40 - 14:40

 

14:50 - 15:50

Stacked vesselsHow to manipulate the Corning CellSTACK® culture chambers and demonstration of the Corning CellCube® modules

11:00 - 12:00

 

13:40 - 14:40

 

14:50 - 15:50

Cell culture booth and scale-out discussion forum2D/3D cell culture and media/serum solutions. Demonstration and Q&A session on scaling up/out solutions with Corning upscaling vessels
15:50 - 16:00Closing remarks