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Education

Education

Hosting university courses

Testa Center provides students and educators access to a pilot-scale bioprocessing environment for practical experience. Universities can use the facilities for laboratory exercises, project work, and course activities focused on biological production, technological innovation, and digital innovation within bioprocessing.

The center offers students the opportunity to gain experience with industrially relevant equipment, workflows, and emerging technologies. We welcome both local and international universities.

Education

Potential Subject areas

Below are a few examples of subject areas which may benefit from hands-on learning at Testa Center.

Bioprocessing

Process Control

Information Technology

Analytics

Education

Courses at Testa

Read about the courses that have previously been hosted at Testa Center.

Process Control

Uppsala University

”In 2021, the course Process Control was developed with the goal to cover automatic control methods commonly used in the process industry. A process lab at Testa Center was also developed for…”

Process Control

"In 2021, the course Process Control was developed with the goal to cover automatic control methods commonly used in the process industry. A process lab at Testa Center was also developed for the course. The lab should, in an industrial environment, show how a Proportional and Integral (PI) controller can control the dissolved oxygen tension in a bioreactor. Various tuning methods for the PI-controller are illustrated and evaluated. One example is how fast a disturbance in the process can be dampened by the controller. The students taking the course have very much appreciated the lab which is exemplified by the following comment from a student: 'I think the process lab at Testa Center in an elegant way tied together several of the tools taught in the course!'”

– Bengt Carlsson, Professor, Division of Systems and Control, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University LLL.

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Biotechnology for Production

Uppsala University

”The Molecular Biotechnology Course for production is the last course for five-year students within the Master’s Programme in Molecular Biotechnology Engineering. The course aims to…”

Biotechnology for Production

"The Molecular Biotechnology Course for production is the last course for five-year students within the Master's Programme in Molecular Biotechnology Engineering. The course aims to train a skilled workforce for the biotechnology industry and society by ensuring relevant biotechnology competence while promoting students' innovativeness and communication skills. Through great student responsibility, the course nurtures confident engineers during their fifth year of study. The Testa Center bioprocess platform is instrumental in arming students with skills spanning upstream, midstream and downstream processes of protein and plasmid production in an industrial setting. This surpasses what can be achieved in even the most advanced course labs..."

– Karin Stensjö, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry Ångström Laboratory

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Protein Biotechnology

Uppsala University

”In the Protein Biotechnology course, we have had our students perform a full-week lab at Testa Center for a few years. The students get to…”

Protein Biotechnology

"In the Protein Biotechnology course, we have had our students perform a full-week lab at Testa Center for a few years. The students get to learn all the stages of protein production, from culturing in a bioreactor, purifying the protein using FPLC and finally analyzing its purity. The experience of independently having assembled and used a bioreactor has been especially valuable for our students and it is something that gives them an edge when applying for positions in the biotechnology industry. The modern facilities combined with the expertise available at Testa Center is the perfect setting for our course.”

– Henrik Land, Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry & Pia Lindberg, Associate Professor Molecular Biomimetics

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Lifelong Learning

Uppsala University

”Life-long learning is an international and national initiative to support adult learning. Life-long learning education is an opportunity and a responsibility of individuals to…”

Lifelong Learning on Industrial Bioprocessing

"Life-long learning is an international and national initiative to support adult learning. Life-long learning education is an opportunity and a responsibility of individuals to grow and learn new things in their lifetime. In 2021, three courses within the topic industrial bioprocess were set up and supported by the faculty of Science and Technology to be offered by the Department of Biology Education: (1) design, (2) cultivation and harvest, and (3) analysis and evaluation of results.

The courses can be studied in any order and in different years to allow for maximal flexibility of participation of students. The overall goal of the courses is to introduce students to a full cycle of planning, executing and evaluating industrial production of a biological substance. During the years when the courses have been running, different biological substances have been produced such as antibodies, membrane proteins and spider proteins. A challenge with the courses is to recruit students that are not presently students at universities. At this time, a majority of students are already studying at our university. A large, underdeveloped potential is therefore to accelerate the recruitment of students with different backgrounds for these courses. This allows for valuable pedagogic advantages, interdisciplinary knowledge exchange as well as networking of participants and teachers. We are thankful for the engagement and participation of Testa center and Cytiva personel in these and other courses offered by Uppsala University. The courses at Testa center are a unique and highly appreciated possibility to learn in an excellent modern industrial environment."

- Margareta Krabbe, Biology Education Center

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