Recently, our main webserver went down, as they sometimes do. While it was down, we couldn't receive mail, and people couldn't reach us on the web. So we set up some other ways to keep in touch, in case it ever happens again.

...go to our backup website

www.prismtc.net

Why not visit now and bookmark it. It's our just-in-case site - and it's on a different server. It lists all the other ways to get a message to us, or to view our webpages.

You can now also follow us on Twitter.

Our email is back! Tuesday 19th am. Many apologies for the gap in service. And many thanks to everyone for your patience.

We'd hate to have missed anything while our mailserver was down, so if you have any doubt whether we've received your recent email (back to, and including Friday) please resend it now and we'll get onto it right away.

Having our email go down for such a period has given us pause for thought. We actually have an alternative email address info<at>prismtc.net, but no good way of letting everyone know about it. We want to see if we can come up with some better options for everyone if our email goes down again. We'll post here what we come up with.

On Monday through Wednesday, Ian and Craig are co-presenting the DoE for Bioprocess Optimisation course at University College, London. This is one of the units in the Modular Training for the Bioprocess Industries Programme (MBI®) run by the Department of Biochemical Engineering at UCL.

Guest speaker on Monday is Phil Borman of GlaxoSmithKline. At GSK, Phil is a manager in Strategic Technologies, Chemical Development, based at Stevenage.

Here’s a link to  a PharmTech paper, which Phil co-authored and upon which his talk is based.

You can also read Craig’s article that introduces the DoE for Bioprocess Optimisation module itself.

On 1st May, we moved to our new Cambridge address - the St. John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS. Our main telephone number, email and web address remain unchanged, but we have a new fax number +44 (0) 1223 420844. You can view our full contact details here. The Innovation Park was established in 1987 by St. John's College (University of Cambridge) on land owned by the College since 1534.