Day

Date

Reading

Chapter in Demain

Topic

Assignments

1

8/28

1

Cultures

2

8/30

20

Growth

9/4

Labor Day

3

9/6

12

Continuous culture

Set up groups

4

9/11

4

Small scale fermentations

5

9/13

18

Instrumentation

6

9/18

Work on reports

7

9/20

17

Raw materials

Progress reports

8

9/25

3

Preservation and inoculum

9

9/27

19

Scale up strategies

Lab notebooks due

10

10/2

Work on reports

11

10/4

6

System improvement

Progress reports

12

10/9

Winery Tour

13

10/11

20, 8

Data analysis & Strain improvement

14

10/16

5, 7, 9

Solid state methods and immobilization

15

10/18

9, 10, 11

Thermophiles, Anaerobic methods

16

10/23

MIDTERM

MIDTERM

17

10/25

13

Biocatalysis and biotransformations

Progress reports

18

10/30

16, 15

Insect cells and plants

19

11/1

15, 14

Mammalian cells

20

11/6

21, 22

Small molecules, Proteins

21

11/8

23

Economics

Progress reports

22

11/13

25, 26

Safety and intellectual property

23

11/15

26, 28

Quality control

24

11/20

2, 52

Bioprospecting

Lab notebooks due

11/22

Thanksgiving

25

11/27

47, 48, 49

Recombinant DNA applications

26

11/29

45, 47

Recombinant DNA applications

27

12/4

Work on projects

28

12/6

50, 51

Metabolic engineering, PHA

Strategic reports due

29

12/11

55

Bioremediation

Strategic report presentations

30

12/13

59

Antibiotics

12/15

Lab note books due

Sun - READINGS From Demain 

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27                 

Ch  1, 20

28

sterile techniques

29

30

31

Sun - READING From Demain

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

2

3

Ch  12

4

Labor Day

5

6

Strategic Reports Groups organized

7

8

9

10

Ch  4, 18

11

growth curve

12

13

14

15

16

17

Ch 17

18

intro to the bioreactor, media, sterilization

19

20 

*progress reports*

21

Seed culture start, reactor prep

22

start reactor

23

24

Ch 3, 19

25

cell storage methods

Quiz 1

26

27

*lab note books due*

28

29

30

Sun - 
READING From Demain

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

Ch  6   

2

media, sterilize

3

prep bioreactor
seed culture

4

*progress reports*
start reactor

5

induce GFP

6

harvest

7

8

Ch 20, 8  

9

cell lysis methods
Winery Tour

Quiz 2

10

11

12

13

14

15

Ch  5, 7, 9, 10, 11

16

GFP purify/quantify

17

18

19

insect starter culture

20

21

22

Ch 13

23

*midterm*
insect culture media

24

reactor prep

25

start reactor
*progress reports*

26

27

28

29

Ch 15, 16

30

larvae 

31

infect cells, feed larvae

Sun - READING From Demain

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Ch  14, 15

1

feed

2

3

harvest

4

5

Ch 21, 22, 23

6

GFP purify/quantify

7

insulin bioreactor

8 

*progress reports*

9

10

11

12

Ch  25, 26, 28

13

insulin purification

Quiz 5

14

15

16

17

18

19

Ch  2, 52

20

Insulin ELISA
Lab notebooks due

21

22

Thanksgiving

23

Thanksgiving

24

Thanksgiving

25

26

Ch  45, 47, 48, 49

27 

trip

28

29

30

Sun - 
READING From Demain

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

2

3

Ch 50 & 51

4

GC and FPLC   analysis

5

6

*written strategic reports due*

7

8

Quiz 6

9

10

Ch  55, 59

11

*strategic reports presentations*

12

13

14

15

*lab notebooks due*

16

17

18

19

20

FINAL

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31