Ph.D Programs in Agricultural Microbiology

MBB 602 Advances in Genetic Engineering 3+0
PFE 602 Advances in Food Processing 3+0
Seminar and Research
AGM 691 Seminar I 0+1
AGM 692 Seminar II 0+1
AGM 699 Research 0+45
* Compulsory courses
1. MAJOR COURSES 
1.1.AG - Advances M 601 in Fermentation (2+1)
Objective
industrially useful microorganisms
To teach students reg
including yeast technology.
Unit I
An -current overview status offerm fermentation entation industry.
Fermentor designs, high performance bioreactors. Methods of
fermentations, Fermentation kinetics- mass and energy transfer in
bioreactors. Instrumentaion and control in fermentors-online
measurements systems, Biosensors, computer application.
Unit II
Media for microbial fermentation: criteria in media formulation. An
overview of downstream processing.
M icrobiology ofIn
Unit III
Screening for new m
industrially important microbes and their genetic manipulations.Products
from fermentation industries. Microbial production of health care products.
Biocatalysts and bioprocessing. Antibiotic fermentation research: Microbial
transformations- steroid transformation-Microbial colourants.
Unit IV
metabolites. Treatment of biological wastes, microbial inoculants and
enzymes for waste treatment-Value addition through microbial
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