Spring Semester 2025
Course Instructor
Dr. Mark A. Eiteman
542-0833
112 Riverbend South
eiteman@engr.uga.edu
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Meeting Times
Wednesday, Friday
9:10 - 10:00
1367 Driftmier
Three labs will be scheduled during the semester. These will vary in their length and schedule. Lab 1 will require a three hour block of time; Lab 2 will require students to schedule a 15 minute sampling time throughout a day' Lab 3 will take three days, but the actual sampling will be a single time.
Students will also be responsible for setting up and conducting an independent "lab experiment". The goal of this lab experiment will be to develop and implement a lab that would be suitable for undergraduate students (e.g., as part of 'Advanced Biochemical Engineering' - 4180L).
Description of course
This lab/lecture discussion course will cover microbial cell physiology and bioreactor operational modes (i.e., batch, fed-batch, chemostat). How do microbes behave under different conditions? How do cells modify their behavior in response to certain example gene knockouts? How does one quantify microbial behavior? The course will also assist students in designing microbial fermentation experiments and interpreting results. The focus will be bacteria. Although E. coli will be used as the principal example, some discussion will be on other species.
| Assignments | Due Date |
| Problem #1 | Wednesday, January 22 |
| Problem #2 | Friday, January 24 |
| Problem #3 | Friday, January 31 |
| Problem #5 | Friday, February 14 |
| Problem #6 | Friday, February 21 |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| Critique #1 | Wednesday, February 5 |
| Critique #2 | |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| Lab #1 | Monday, February 10, 5:00 - 7:30 |
| Report Due | TBA |
| Lab #2 | Tuesday, March 11 (all day) |
| Report Due | TBA |
| Lab #3 | |
| Report Due | TBA |
| Independent Project | |
| Report Due | Monday, May 5 |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| Video on Mass Transfer Theory | |
| Video on Oxygen Transfer Rate | |
| Video on Measurement of kLa |
| Solutions | |
| Some Useful Enzyme Links | |
| Brenda | |
| Enzyme Nomenclature | |
| GenomeNet | |
| MATLAB Examples | |
| Example 1 | |
| Example 2 | |
| Example 3 - while loop | |
| Example 4a - for loop | |
| Example 4b - for loop with excel output | |
| The Excel output from Example 4b |