Objectives of general skills

• Skill 2: Have acquired professional skills relating to the degree.
• Master the complexity of such work and take into account the objectives and constraints which characterise it.
• Skill 3: Conduct extensive research and development projects related to biological sciences.
• Apply, mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired in order to help lead and complete a project.
• Skill 4: Master communication techniques.
• Communicate, in English both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Adapt their communication to a variety of audiences.
• Skill 5: Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy.
• Aquire new knowledge independently.
• Pursue further training and develop new skills independently.
• Skill 6: Apply scientific methodology.
• Critically reflect on the impact of their discipline in general, and on the contribution to projects.

UE's Learning outcomes

The course on industrial biotechnology introduction enables students to acquire the following knowledge: - Represent enzymatic and microbial reactions through appropriate kinetic laws; - Understand and use the basics of engineering biological processes - Understand the complexity of extrapolating a process from a laboratory to a driver and then to an industry; - Understand online monitoring and regulation problems - Choose a method of separation / purification based on the constraints

UE Content

This course is divided into parts. The first part is dedicated to the fundamentals of biochemistry, microbiology, metabolism and enzymology. Some legal and normative concepts are taught (contained use, security level laboratories). The biocatalysis and bioreactor aspects are then discussed by the characterisation of the mechanisms (enzymatic and microbial biocatalysis), and engineering microbial bioreactors (flows, continuous reactors, batch, fed-batch, airlift, the balance sheets of materials, heat exchanges). Associated with these descriptions, scale up problems and monitoring of processes are presented. Some examples of models such as metabolic fluxes, structured models, macroscopic models are detailed. The purification aspects (membranes, chromatography, precipitation, etc.) are then discussed in the light of the final use of bioproduct. Some examples of major industrial bioprocesses are described (antibodies, vaccines, bioethanol, biogas, treatment of urban waters).

Prior experience

Organic Chemistry basic concepts (structure, function, spatial representations) and basic laboratory techniques (analytical and organic chemistry) are required to follow this course unit.

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