Daniel Mestre won the best poster presentation prize at the ESACT Frontiers Retreat

Daniel Mestre won the best poster presentation prize at ESACT Frontiers Retreat, selected by direct voting from the 102 participants of the meeting. Daniel presented a poster entitled “Engineering envelope glycoproteins for the establishment of stable cell lines for lentiviral vector production” featuring the work he developed during the last year, in the scope of his Master Thesis, at the Laboratory of Cell Line Development and Molecular Biotechnology – Animal Cell Technology Unit. As the winner of the poster presentation prize, Daniel was granted an invitation with payed registration to present his work at ESACT biennial meeting which will take place in May 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

About ESACT Frontiers

ESACT Frontiers Program (EFP) is an initiative within the European Society for Animal Cell Technology (ESACT) focused on promoting career progression and active engagement of young generations to ESACT and to the field of Animal Cell Technology (ACT). Its mission is to facilitate the cooperation and knowledge exchange among young scientists of the ACT community and to provide an easy-to-access platform to connect young researchers with ESACT senior members.

About ESACT Frontiers Retreat

The first ESACT Frontiers Retreat took place in October 20th – 22nd 2016 in Lyon, France. Aligned with ESACT Frontiers mission, this meeting was dedicated to early career scientists working in animal cell culture and it was conceived to balance high-quality scientific sessions with dynamic workshops on personal skills and career development. The Scientific Sessions included three Oral Presentation Sessions, featuring a combination of early career scientists and high profile keynote speakers, and two Poster Presentation Sessions. Apart from the Scientific Sessions, participants were engaged into an active networking workshop to nurture new connections and contacts and to develop innovative ideas (Think Tank Workshop). In addition, the Collaboration Workshop helped participants to identify and improve important soft skills to engage into a collaborative (rather than competitive) mindset. The retreat was closed with the Career Options Workshop where three senior ESACT members shared their experiences on their different career paths from academia to industry to start-up. ESACT Frontiers organizing committee Simon Ausländer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Emma Petiot, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Ana Filipa Rodrigues, iBET, Portugal Christopher Sellick, MedImmune, UK Verena Lohr, Sanofi,  Germany Paulo Fernandes, Autolus, UK Mercedes Segura, Bluebird bio, Cambridge, MA, USA