David Hacker

Expertise

Animal cell cultivation Transient transfection Stable cell line generation Expression vector design Protein purification

Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Sowmya Balasubramanian (2015), Dominique Terry Monteil Jr (2014), Agata Oberbek (2010), Yashas Rajendra (2013), Xiao Shen (2014)

Courses

Recombinant protein expression in animal cells for appli-cations in medicine and structural biology

BIO-701

Cultivated animal cells are important hosts for the production of recombinant proteins for biochemical and structural studies and for use as therapeutics. The course will provide an overview of the methods for the production and characterization of recombinant proteins.