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Wersja polska

Course code: NBSS10120f14
Semester: 2014/2015 winter
Name: Industrial biotechnology in food
Major: Biotechnology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 8
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 60 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Maria Wojtatowicz
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Students are able to isolate cultures from nature and evaluate their biotechnological potential, they know how to prepare inocula and how to carry out and describe fermentation processes, they also know how to store cultures for long periods and what methods can be used for strain improvement.

Competences: Students have insight in biological and technical background of different microbial biotechnologies and can adapt this knowledge to design a new bioprocesses.

Prerequisites: biology, biochemistry, general microbiology

Course content: Industrial microorganisms. Strain isolation, screening, identification, biotechnological improvement (mutagenesis and DNA recombination in vivo and in vitro) and long – term preservation (subculturing, drying, freeze-drying, freezing). Overview of industrial microbial syntheses (production of starter cultures, amino acids, vitamins, pigments, polysaccharides, organic acids) by description of production strains, biosynthesis process and its regulation, and product recovery, purification, formulation and application in food industry.

Recommended literature: 1. Biotechnology. A multi-volume comprehensive treatise, Ed. Rehm H.J., Reed G., Puhler A., Stadler P., Biological fundamentals (vol.1), Products of primary metabolism (vol. 6), Products of secondary metabolism (vol. 7), Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1993, 1996, 1997; 2. Biotechnologia. Podstawy mikrobiologiczne i biochemiczne, Chmiel A., PWN; 3. Mikrobiologia techniczna, tom II, Red. Libudzisz Z., Kowal K., Wyd. PŁ, Łódź 2000; 4. Biotechnologia żywności, Red. Bednarski W., Reps A., WNT, Warszawa 2001; 5. Manual of industrial microbiology and biotechnology, Demain A.L., Solomon N.A., Amer. Soc. Microbiol., Washington D.C. 1986; 6. Maintenance of microorganisms. A manual of laboratory methods, Kirsop B.E., Snell J.J.S., Acad. Press, London 1984; 7. Klucze do identyfikacji bakterii, drożdży i grzybów strzępkowych.

Assessment methods: written exam, reports and practicals

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