Metabolic Engineering Workshop (July 27-28, 2026)

Join BioMADE for a deep dive into Metabolic Engineering! This interactive course is designed to equip you with the latest tools, techniques, and insights to accelerate your career in biomanufacturing. Register here!

Program Overview

This two-day course will focus on metabolic engineering as applied to high volume/low-cost chemicals and materials production, and the unique choices and approaches that work in this area. You’ll explore cutting-edge systems approaches with guidance from industry experts in biotechnology and biomanufacturing. You will:

  • Be able to immediately apply new tools and techniques directly to your organization's challenges.

  • Learn how to apply biotechnology and metabolic engineering in large-scale, industrial projects. 

  • Survey the tools used in industrial biotechnology, and learn how systems approaches – in biology and engineering – interact to define and provide direction for experimentation. 

  • Gain practical perspectives on the field from exposure to successful and unsuccessful endeavors. 

  • Understand the interplay between biology, engineering, and economic requirements, and how theoretical and empirical approaches are used to move projects forward. 

Who should attend? 

  • At-the-bench metabolic engineers and individuals considering entering this area 

  • Fermentation scientists, engineers, biochemists, bioinformaticians, and others who interact and work with metabolic engineering teams 

  • Management personnel seeking to understand the unique context of industrial biotechnological projects 

Agenda

  • Metabolic Engineering Overview; Rate-Titer-Yield

  • Microbial Physiology and Enzymology Overview

  • Genome Scale Metabolic Modeling & Strain Design

  • Building up biocatalysts: Modern Tools for Strain Engineering

  • Technoeconomic Modeling for Metabolic Engineers

  • How to Improve Decision Quality Throughout R&D

  • High-Throughput Screening: Insights from the Intersection of Metabolism, Statistics and AI

  • Metabolic Engineering Workflows and Automation - Establishing Automated Workflows in Synthetic Biology

  • State of the Art and Future of Automation Workflows in the AI Era

  • Evolutionary Engineering of Strains using Adaptive Laboratory Evolution

Rates

  • Two-day Metabolic Engineering Workshop: $2,000

  • Combine with the three-day Microbial Fermentation Workshop for a total rate of $4,500 (save $500!)

  • Includes daily lunch, networking receptions, all curricula, hands-on activities, and more

Event Details

Location
University of San Diego
Pardee Legal Research Center (Room 132)
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110

Date and Time
Monday – Tuesday: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 

Hotel Room Block

Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites San Diego Old Town

  • Newly renovated

  • Walking distance to Old Town restaurants and shops

  • 10 minutes from campus

Book your discounted rate of $219 by June 26 (includes breakfast).

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