Book description
Biotechnology
introduces students in science, engineering, or technology to the
basics of genetic engineering, recombinant organisms, wild-type
fermentations, metabolic engineering and microorganisms for the
production of small molecule bioproducts. The text includes a brief
historical perspective and economic rationale on the impact of
regulation on biotechnology production, as well as chapters on
biotechnology in relation to metabolic pathways and microbial
fermentations, enzymes and enzyme kinetics, metabolism, biological
energetics, metabolic pathways, nucleic acids, genetic engineering,
recombinant organisms and the production of monoclonal antibodies.
Nathan S. Mosier
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and
Biological Engineering and the Laboratory of Renewable Resources
Engineering at Purdue University. Mosier was also an NSF IGERT PhD
Fellow from 2000-2002 at the Innovation Realization Laboratory in
Krannert School of Management, and has authored case studies based on
commercialization experiences for use in entrepreneurship and/or
technology commercialization business school curricula.
Michael R. Ladisch, a member of the National Academy of
Engineering, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of
Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the Weldon School of
Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Laboratory of Renewable
Resources Engineering at Purdue University, and Chief Technology
Officer at Mascoma Corporation, a cellulosic biofuels company. He is
coeditor of several books on biotechnology, including Harnessing
Biotechnology for the 21st Century and Protein Purification, and is
the author of Wiley's Bioseparations Engineering text.
