Profile 
Website: https://www.bioprocess.tu-berlin.de/menue/home/
Location of the Chair: Berlin
Year of Foundation: Realignment since 2008
Number of employees at the Chair: 67 (incl. Bachelor and Master students)
Main contact person in the Bio-PAT network: Prof. Peter Neubauer
Position: Head of the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering and Professor at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering
Products / Product Groups / Services / Competencies:
– Competencies:
- Cultivation of and process development with various microorganisms (bacteria, yeasts, fungi, lichens, plant cells)
- Development and application of process analytical technologies (multiposition and optical sensors for in-situ real-time monitoring and analysis of gradients as well as analysis of physiological and morphological cell changes for process monitoring and optimization)
- Bioprocess scale-up/-down (investigation of oscillating conditions & gradients and their effects on cells as well as population heterogeneities)
- Development of and cultivation in single-use bioreactors
- Automated bioprocess development with mathematical models and artificial intelligence (liquid handling, platforms, parallelization of cultivations, screenings, process analyses)
- Bioprocess modeling (data correlations, model reduction, modeling of scale-up/-down using kinetic models)
- Applied biocatalysis (recombinant production of biocatalysts, protein expression, metabolic engineering, synthesis of chemical molecules)
– Equipment:
- Bioreactors of various sizes and configurations (10 mL – 150 L)
- Systems for bioprocess analytics: multiparameter sensors, sensors for physico-chemical process parameters, single-cell analytics (e.g., flow cytometry, in-situ probes, microscopic techniques), electro-optical methods, HPLC, GC-MS/FID, CEDEX-Pro media analyzer
- Scale-down bioreactor & single-use bioreactors
- Automated robotic laboratory for bioprocess development and corresponding software for modeling
Looking for:
– cooperation partners in the mentioned fields of competence for:
- Joint research projects
- Proof-of-concept trials for technologies or developments of external partners
- Joint application notes
