Day 1

Introduction of bioreactor by Mr. Sharman, the Asian South Pacific Regional Manager from INFORS HT Company.

The first day of the workshop, we were greeted with Mr. Sharman, a very humorous Indian man who was the speaker and mentor for our bioreactor workshop. 

The day started with a little introduction of Mr. Sharman himself follow by general background of the INFORS HT company.

Next, we were given a tour on the anatomy of Minifors bioreactor. Functions of every single part of the bioreactor were explained in great details. 

We were given a brief lessons on the basics of scaling up process of a shake flask to a lab scale/ seed fermentor. 

"The parameters of fermentation such as, the temperature, pH, aeration, agitation and antifoam are the important things that we must take note throughout the fermentation process."  - Mr. Sharman

After the presentation, we were shown the demo of how to disassemble as well as to prep the bioreactor for steam sterilization in the autoclave. 

For the details of:

1. Functions of each part of the bioreactor please refer to the post on "Bioreactor parts".

2. Sterilization please refer to the post on "How to prep a bioreactor for autoclaving"