The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY
FALL 1997, SPRING 1998
INTRODUCTION TO BIOPROCESSING (3 Credits)
INSTRUCTORS: Dr.Len Holmes/Dr. Siva Mandjiny
TEXT: Instructional materials will be provided.
DESCRIPTION: This lecture/laboratory course is designed to train students
in selected aspects of fermentation for the production of various biochemicals.
CONTENT:
1. Introduction to Microbiology
-Cell Structure, Important classes of microorganism
2. Chemicals of life
-Sugars and polysaccharides, Lipids, Nucleotides, Amino acids and protein
3. Fermentation
-Screening of microorganisms, bacterial strain development and protein production by bench scale fermentation, kinetics of cell growth, substrate conversion and product formation
4. Some feedstocks produced by fermentation
- Ethanol, Citric acid, Amino acids, enzymes, Antibiotics etc.,
5. Immobilization techniques
- whole cells
- Enzymes
6. Microbial approaches to waste water treatment
- cultures for treatment processes
- aerobic sewage treatment
- methane production