Monday, March 31, 2014

A fun field trip to Genzyme on Monday 3/17/2014!

Here's a photo from our fun field trip to Genzyme on Monday 3/17/2014! 



Thomas Vermette (left in photo) is the wonderful SSU BIO alum ('91) that hosted us for an awesome tour of Genzyme's Allston plant! He taught us a lot of science in this one trip--- details about recombinant protein expression of Cerezyme in Chinese-Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell Bioreactors, secretion signals, His-Tags, serum-free media, ion-exchange protein purification, and FDA-mandated Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP).  We are excited that Tom has tentatively agreed to come as a visiting speaker for a few lectures on GMP within our Fall 2014 (new) Biotechnology course!

Special, special thanks to Kaitlyn Hurley and Angelique Kim of Career Services (not shown) for co-organizing this trip. And thank-you's for expert van driving by Longinus and Jebson.


Dr. Tracy Ware

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