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BioNetwork West 2015 (past event)

October 26 - 28, 2015

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Ray Ketchum

VP Research and Development
DianaPlantSciences

Ray Ketchum is the Vice President of Research and Development for DianaPlantSciences. Ray has devoted his career to working with many different types of plant cell cultures with a primary focus on medicinal plants and secondary metabolite analysis. Ray worked for 20 years on all aspects of the production of the anticancer drug, paclitaxel, from plant cell cultures of yew trees (Taxus sp.). His research encompassed nearly all disciplines of plant biotechnology including the establishment of plant cell cultures, selection and elicitation of cell cultures to produce high levels of paclitaxel in vitro, establishment for quantitative analysis of paclitaxel by HPLC/MS, establishment of methods for genetic transformation and engineering of Taxus plant cell cultures, and elucidation of steps in the paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway. Prior to joining DianaPlantSciences, Ray received his B.A. in Botany and Biochemistry from Connecticut College, his Ph.D. in Botany specializing in Developmental Plant Physiology with Prof. Murray Nabors from Colorado State University, worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Donna Gibson at USDA-ARS, Cornell University, worked as a visiting scientist with Prof. Mike Shuler in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, worked with Rod Croteau at Washington State University as an Assistant Research Professor, was Director of the Bioinformatics and DNA Sequencing Core at the University of Idaho.

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Friday, March 10th, 2017

15:50 Biotech Spotlight: DianaPlant Sciences

DianaPlantSciences, Inc., a company based in Portland, Oregon, is a leader in the commercialization of potent “phyto-actives” sustainably sourced from plant cell culture for the nutrition, personal care, and pharma industries.

Plant cell culture technology includes the growth and propagation of plant cells from targeted plants in a controlled environment. Our proprietary process is completely non-GMO. We achieve our goal of obtaining plant cells with the highest concentration and distribution of targeted metabolites, that occur naturally in the plant, through a high throughput and accelerated process of natural selection. The benefits of plant cell culture include sustainability, standardization, and full traceability of plant source, as well as the opportunity to develop fully proprietary ingredients for a customer.

A company of the Symrise Group, DianaPlantSciences extends the Group’s capability in biotechnology. DianaPlantSciences continues to operate on our founding philosophy to deliver “Performance from Nature” and focuses the efforts of its scientists on truly unique solutions to help clients create maximal differentiation with no impact on the outside vegetal world. DianaPlantSciences is the recipient of the Nutrition Business Journal’s 2013 Innovation Award, the Nutritional Outlook’s Best of 2014 - Ingredient Supplier Award, and the laureate of Frost & Sullivan’s 2014 Global Visionary Innovation Leadership Award.