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Dr. Dave Siak-Wei OW
- Item Number: 189956
- Product Category: Invited Speakers
Principal Scientist and Group Leader
Microbial Cell Bioprocessing Group, Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR
Topic
Bioprocess engineering of Lactococcus lactis for recombinant growth factor production
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About the Speaker
Dr. Dave Siak-Wei OW is a Principal Scientist and the group leader of Microbial Cell Bioprocessing Group in Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Dave received his B.Sc. in Food science in 2001 in the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and his Ph.D. in microbial biotechnology in 2008 from the National University of Singapore (NUS). In BTI, he is actively involved in academic and industrial collaborations involving microbial expression systems such as E. coli and Lactic acid bacteria. His research interests are in applied microbiology and bioprocess engineering of cell factories for biotherapeutics and protein production. Professionally, Dave is the secretary of Singapore Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (SSMB), a council member of Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS). He is also an international executive board member of Asian Federation of Societies for Lactic Acid Bacteria (AFsLAB) and Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB).