Schedule for Biochemical Engineering Fall 2005

August 29, 2005	Organization, intro to biotechnology, intro to cells, cellular components
September 1, 2005	Amino acids and proteins, nucleic acids, DNA replication, protein synthesis
September 5, 2005	No class Labor Day Holiday
September 8, 2005	Recombinant DNA technology
September 12, 2005	Carbohydrates and metabolism
September 15, 2005	Enzyme kinetics
September 19, 2005	Immobilized enzymes and kinetics
September 22, 2005	Problems/Web materials on enzyme kinetics	Professor Sharfstein out of town
September 26, 2005	Midterm 1	Professor Sharfstein out of town
September 29, 2005	Batch cell growth
October 3, 2005	Models of cell growth
October 6, 2005	Van Ness Lecture
October 11, 2005	Continuous Culture	Tuesday class
October 13, 2005	Cell culture/Web materials problems	Professor Sharfstein-religious holiday
October 17, 2005	Mammalian cell culture
October 20, 2005	Mass transfer, measurement of kla
October 24, 2005	Heat transfer, sterilization
October 27, 2005	Scale up and review
October 31, 2005	Midterm 2	AICHE meeting
November 3, 2005	Introduction to downstream processing
November 7, 2005	Downstream 2
November 10, 2005	Downstream 3
November 14, 2005	Genetic engineering/plasmids
November 17, 2005	Protein/metabolic engineering
November 21, 2005	Process Economics, discussion of literature projects
November 24, 2005	No class Thanksgiving Holiday
November 28, 2005	No class work on literature projects	Professor Sharfstein out of town?
December 1, 2005	Literature presentations
December 5,2005	Literature presentations
December 8, 2005	Literature presentations and review
TBA	FINAL EXAM