National Training Centre - Scotland
Below you can find information about the skills training programmes being delivered in Scotland through the ATSTN National Training Centres.
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Introduction to bioprocessing
Edinburgh | 2 days
Course aims:
The FlexBio centre will offer a 2-day intensive practical skills course tailored to a range of subjects including end to end bioprocessing, upstream development and downstream processing. Learners will be taken through a range of practical exercises within an industrial setting. In addition, learners will also gain experience in more general industrial lab skills and receive consolidation and context from lectures led by IBioIC industry partners.
What you will learn:
The aims of the course are:
- Gain an introductory background to upstream and downstream bioprocessing from a process, practicality, and quality standpoint, learning how does this relate to process and product design
- Observe on-site demonstrations of upstream processing equipment including stirred tank bioreactors, wave bags and stainless systems used to grow cultures to 30L scale
- Gain an understanding of how they work, how they are setup and maintained, and how cultures are scaled up from lab-scale
- Observe on-site demonstrations of downstream processing equipment including disc stack continuous centrifuge, homogeniser cell lysis, TFF filtration and chromatography.
- Take part in a downstream process extracting foaming proteins from a beer fermentation to gain a better understanding
- Gain an understanding of the challenges of scaling up downstream processes and the type of equipment used, as well as the broad range of applications they can be used on
Location:
FlexBio at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Who should attend:
Anyone considering a career in advanced therapies testing/manufacturing and vaccine development/manufacturing. Typically graduates, postgraduates, technicians, industrial staff in life sciences looking to start a career in the sector.
How to apply:
For course dates and registration information, please email nathan.barnett@glasgow.ac.uk
An introduction to working in the Life Sciences industry: Advanced Manufacturing
Edinburgh | 5 days
Course aims:
This course is part of a series of free week-long workshops delivered by the Advanced Manufacturing Skills Training Network (ATSTN) to give participants training in key skills required to access work in the growing Life Sciences Industry in Scotland.
You will experience a mixture of theory and practical workshops designed and delivered by experts at Charles River Laboratories and Edinburgh Napier University.
What you will learn:
- Practical laboratory skills including cell culture and immunoassay
- Good laboratory practice theory and practice
- Insight into the roles available in the Life Sciences Industry in Scotland
Location:
Charles River Laboratories (Herriot Watt Campus) and Edinburgh Napier University.
Who should attend:
Anyone considering a career in advanced therapies testing/manufacturing and vaccine development/manufacturing. Typically life science HNC/HND and undergraduate students or those with desirable transferable skills from outside life sciences looking to start a career in the sector.
How to apply:
For course dates and registration information, please email nathan.barnett@glasgow.ac.uk
Fundamental advanced therapies laboratory skills in biosafety testing
Glasgow | 5 days
Course aims:
Delivered in collaboration with our strategic training partner Merck Life Sciences, this five-day course introduces GLP/GMP/GDocP, core laboratory skills, gowning, aseptic working and environmental monitoring. The content has been developed with close links to industry to ensure authenticity and consistency with industry labs and methods.
The course takes place over 3 days at Ayrshire Colleges modern Kilwinning lab facility and 2 days at Merck’s start of the art Glasgow training facility that provides delegates with the opportunity to gain hands-on practical training in complex biotesting procedures.
Learning outcomes:
- Develop and apply an understanding of GLP/GMP/GDocP.
- Gowning – the different approaches and the understanding behind each requirement.
Housekeeping – our first line in defence in maintaining an environment which is critical to work, ensuring we meet the standards required. - Aseptic – what does it mean to work within a Biological Safety Cabinet but also how the process before and after contribute to an environment suitable for safety testing.
- Environmental Monitoring – follows on from housekeeping and aseptic technique as a monitoring system; how we monitor and evaluate the building for suitability.
- Equipment – all equipment is under strict monitoring and functionality testing; this will provide the knowledge around the requirements and include practical exercises.
- Preparing reagents – can delegates follow instructions, perform calculations and execute the task in an aseptic manner to prepare a reagent all whilst accurately documenting the activity.
Location:
Ayrshire College, Kilwinning Campus & Merck Life Sciences, Todd Campus, Glasgow
Who should attend:
People considering a career in advanced therapies testing/manufacturing and vaccine development/manufacturing. Typically life science HNC/HND and undergraduate students or those with desirable transferable skills from outside life sciences looking to start a career in the sector.
How to apply:
For course dates and registration information, please email nathan.barnett@glasgow.ac.uk
Practical sterile manufacturing skills in a GMP environment
Edinburgh | 5 days
Course aims:
RoslinCT will provide a one week training course covering the practical aspects of a sterile manufacturing environment, including the basics of aseptic processing and introductory GMP training and behaviours. The learners will gain a basic level of skills and understanding, which they can build on in due course.
What you will learn:
- Applied practical experience of clean room gowning and behaviours
- An insight into microbiological considerations and contamination control
- A basic understanding of working to GMP within an industrial setting
- A fundamental understanding of aseptic cell processing
Location:
NINE Edinburgh BioQuarter, 9 Little France Road, Edinburgh
Who should attend:
Anyone considering a career in advanced therapies testing/manufacturing and vaccine development/manufacturing. Typically industry new starts, life science undergraduate students, people on MSc or PhD programmes or those with desirable transferable skills from outside life sciences looking to start a career in the sector.
How to apply:
For course dates and registration information, please email nathan.barnett@glasgow.ac.uk
