AAV Manufacturing Beyond the Lab
GMP production constraints, scalability, and what really limits clinical supply

Dr. Hartmut Tintrup - Exec. Director Advanced Therapies Europe, FUJIFILM Biotechnologies

Discover the Future of Spectral Flow Cytometry - Streamline your workflow with the new NovoCyte Opteon

Speaker: Dr. Thorsten Rieling and Amir Keric, Product Manager - OLS - OMNI Life Science

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 10:00 a.m.

Transcription Factors Meet Heterochromatin: Decoding ERV Silencing Pathways

Prof. Gunnar Schotta - Division of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich

Sample Preparation for Single Cell Sequencing

Dr. Verena Barbarino - Account Manager Research, Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG

Company Exhibition: 3D culture imaging

Speakers: Dr. Pablo Radermacher - Key Account Manager Cologne/Bonn/NRW, Sales  - Leica Microsystems

From Vision to Venture: How HTGF Supports StartUps

Dr. Lena-Sophie Schütter - HGTF, Bonn

Impact of Automated Genotyping

Transnetyx Automated Genotyping, Genetic Monitoring, and Microbiome Analysis 

Speakers: Daniel Gercke, Regional Sales Manager Europe and Manuel Vazquez, Regional Sales Director Europe -  Transnetyx

and exhibition booth in the CMMC Foyer from 9:00 a.m.

Optimized and Scalable Workflows: From Cell-Based Assays to qPCR

Engage with the Experts: Join the Talks and Discussions

• The Future of Cell-Based Assays: Scalable, Unbiased, and Automated Workflows from Cell Painting, Compound Screening to Organoids
  Jing Zhang, PhD - Field Application Scientist, SPT Labtech Ltd 

and visit the SPT and NEB exhibition booths in the CMMC Foyer from 10:00 a.m.

Innovations Training
IXplore IX85 Spin XL: widen your view into cellular dynamics

Dr. Viktor Jakob, High-End Application Specialist, Life Science Division, EVIDENT Scientific
Dr. Carsten Herrmann - Territory Manager Life Science Division, EVIDENT Scientific

See more and discover faster with the IXplore IX85 SpinXL spinning disk confocal microscope. With an unparalleled 26.5 mm field of view (FOV), you can capture cellular dynamics faster and screen large areas quickly. Precise, gentle live-cell imaging supports sample viability and image consistency.

Live demonstration with your samples on Thursday, March 19, 2026 starting at 9 a.m. and Friday, March 20, from 9 a.m.

On both days you will have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on training session (slots of 2 hours).
The following times will be available:
Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 9.00 a.m. / 11:00 a.m. / 2 p.m. /4 p.m.
Friday, March 20, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. / 11 a.m. / 1 p.m. / 3 p.m.

Please sign up for the training!
Dr. Herrmann will contact you directly to schedule a training time that works for you.

From Images to Insights: High-Resolution Spatial Transcriptomics Using Xenium at the CCG
Andrea Hamm-Baarke - Sr. Account Executive, Germany West (NRW) - 10x Genomics

Transcription regulation and dysregulation in leukemia by BET bromodomain proteins

Prof. Andreas Mayer - Institute of Genomics and RNomics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

Cryo-Electron microscopy at the University of Cologne

We have a dedicated cryo-EM platform here at the UoC. With cryo-EM we analyse the structure of proteins to learn more about their function. We want to present you what we can do with cryo-EM and give you an overview of the technique and of possible applications so that you can decide, if cryo-EM is a technique that would be beneficial to your scientific project.

Dr. Monika Gunkel and Dr. Arthur Macha - StruBiTEM - Cologne, DE

SCD - Sudden Cardiac Death

Prof. Dr. Paululat - Zoology & Developmental Biology Lab, University Osnabrück, DE